Audio and Video Repositories at Scale: Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

General Track Papers and Panels

The session was recorded and is <a href="https://connectpro.helsinki.fi/p81yg6gq74o/">available for watching</a> (this presentation starts at 0:00:46)

In 2013, Indiana University (IU) launched a five-year project, known as the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI: http://mdpi.iu.edu/), to digitize and preserve over 300,000 audio and video assets of value from across the university. Among academic institutions, IU has an unusually rich collection of rare and unique time-based media that document subjects of enduring value to the university, state of Indiana, and the world. IU is partnering with a commercial vendor, Memnon Archiving Services of Belgium, to set up a facility in Bloomington, Indiana to digitize these materials, in a workflow that will produce as much as 12 terabytes per day of digital data to be preserved beginning in summer 2014. In this presentation, we will briefly outline the goals of MDPI, describe the technical architecture being implemented to support preservation and access, and discuss experiences to date in setting up and scaling the technology environment, particularly in the areas of transcoding, repository integration with hierarchical storage management systems, and delivery.