This document discusses the modern approach to long-term digital preservation used by the LDS Church. It outlines projects like using international area offices and cloud services to replicate and back up content in multiple locations. The goal is to enable access to important assets for very long periods by preparing and storing content in a way that allows for future transformations while gathering extensive metadata to aid preservation.

1. A modern look at the storage paradigm
Richard Duke
Chief Systems Architect
Publishing Services Department

3. History of Long-term
Preservation in the LDS Church
How long can we store important assets?
How long is “long enough?”

14. Moses ~ 1400 BC
Lehi ~ 600 BC
Mormon ~ 400 AD
Joseph Smith - 1829 AD

15. How do you keep something safe
for a very long period of time?

17. Current Projects:
International Area Offices
Cloud-enhanced workflows
Growing Archive
Multi-site Preservation

18. International Area Offices

19. Approach
Small NAS in each Area Office
Replicate Content to S3
Backup S3 Copy to Archive

20. Cloud-enhanced workflows
Prepare VOD Content for Distribution
Visual Effects Rendering
User-generated content

21. Focus:
Enabling services when/where
they are needed
Speed and efficiency in key

22. Approach
Built for work
Prepare content for distribution
Backup copy into the Archive

24. Growing Archive

25. Approach
Built for work
Prepare content for archive
Metadata services

26. Multi-site Preservation

27. Approach
Built for work
Prepare content for preservation
Replicate content into different
geographic zones

28. Summary
Plan for Preservation
Use good materials
Plan for future transformations
Gather as much metadata as possible

29. Thank You