Berea College, a liberal arts college based in Kentucky, has chosen digital preservation partner Preservica to protect and make accessible unique sound and video collection, documenting the history and culture of Berea College and southern Appalachians. The collection 100 TB will be kept in the Cloud Edition on Amazon Preservica hosted Web Services (AWS Cloud)
The archives are being kept non-commercial -. One of a kind, stored on a variety of formats now mostly obsolete. They document the history of Appalachian culture and history of Berea College. The collection is particularly strong in the areas of traditional music (banjo and fiddle for example), religious expression, spoken lore, radio broadcasts, oral history, and events College and personalities.
To allow Berea College to move safely and quickly to his collection Preservica, AWS Import / Export is used to move large amounts of data in the AWS cloud.
Preservica was chosen after a thorough review of several vendors, and was noted as being the most functional cloud, flexible and budget accommodation, as well as easier to integrate with the existing IT ecosystem archive.
"Preservica the team is fantastic to work with, they came up with a solution that works very well for our needs, and always have a variety of people to answer our questions," said Rachel Vagts, head of special collections and Archives in Berea . "We are very excited about this project," added Vagts. "We have such a breadth of its unique video collection, and it's great that our students and the community of researchers around the world will be able to access it."
Moving data AWS Cloud
the Berea College audio and video collection is approaching 100TB size . the large size of the collection is due to the inclusion files many of which are sound files. Rather than remove the intervals between recordings recital to reduce file size, Berea has kept all files in their entirety in order to capture a cultural experience from start to finish, with background chatter of the audience. the video files are particularly large files with some as large as 516 GB files .
Turns Berea to move all safety and quickly to his collection Preservica AWS import / Export is used to move large amounts of data in the AWS cloud. This is accomplished by using portable storage devices for transport and allow the entire collection 100TB be downloaded in a few weeks.
The finished solution will be available through Berea College Special Collections and Archives website, the aim being to share his fascinating story as widely as possible.
Berea College, South first interracial and mixed college , focuses on learning, work, and service. Berea admits academically promising students, primarily from Appalachia, who have limited economic resources. No student is charged tuition. All students must work at least 10 hours a week, earning money for books, room and board.
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