Implementing a Reliable Digital Object Archive

An Archival Repository reliably stores digital objects for long periods of time (decades or centuries). The archival nature of the system requires new techniques for storing, indexing, and replicating digital objects. In this paper we discuss the specialized indexing needs of a write-once archive. We also present a reliability algorithm for effectively replicating sets of related objects. We describe an administrative user interface and a data import utility forarchival repositories. Finally, we discuss and evaluate a prototype repository we have built, the Stanford Archival Vault, SAV.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ERCIMDL
• Authors: Brian F. Cooper, Arturo Crespo, Hector Garcia-Molina
• Keywords: Archival, Archival Repository, Digital Objects, Education, ERCIMDL 2000