Chronopolis and DuraCloud: Doing integration right

Chronopolis and DuraCloud: Doing integration right. Bill Branan, David Minor. PASIG Presentation. March 12, 2015. [PDF]
Duracloud is a hosted digital preservation service. Chronopolis is a digital preservation storage network spanning multiple institutions and geographic regionsbased on active preservation (constant checking of items). The reasons for integrating the services and becoming a DPN node:

• Digital content preservation is important to the future of society
• All preserved digital content should be handled equally
• Need an economically viable option to support the preservation needs of all institutions, regardless of size or technical capability
• Need to simplify the preservation process as much as possible

These are two very independent existing systems with different workflows and processes. DuraCloud works with real-time data, and Chronopolis works with well defined data collections. Sometimes the best way to integrate two systems is to not require either system to know anything about the other.

 Digital Preservation Matters.