Digital archiving tools

[Rich Alderson]

From: Al Kossow
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:05 AM

  [snip excellent synopsis of the archival file system problem]

> And, if someone does know of a system that is available that can do
> this, I'd love to hear about it.  I keep thinking this is a business
> opportunity for someone, except for the fact that archives never have
> any money :-(

Al,

Have you looked at the Time Capsule File System (unrelated to the Apple
product of the same name), designed by Alan K. Bawden of MIT and used
for this exact kind of thing in a proof-of-concept experiment written up
as a Master's thesis by Brian Zuzga?  The entire thesis is online at the
latter's web site:

        http://www.boogles.com/local/papers/tcfs-thesis/thesis.html

It might very well serve as the start of something open-source that would
serve all of us who need something to deal with the issues you summarized.


Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104

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