Archive Ingest and Handling Test

Johns Hopkins University Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) Final Report

I) Introduction A) Project Description The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was funded by the Library of Congress (LC) as a component of its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The purpose of this test was to evaluate in an unconstrained manner how participants would manage the task of preserving an archive provided in a format that was not pred...

Library of Congress Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) Final Report

This report documents the development, administration and conclusions from the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT), a multiparty test of various digital preservation regimes, conducted under the auspices of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). It describes the genesis of NDIIPP and of the AIHT under the direction of the Library of Congress; deta...

The Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Johns Hopkins University Report

From very early in its existence, the Digital Knowledge Center (DKC) in the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has focused on using automated and semi-automated processes to create workflows for the creation and ingestion of digital objects. What was missing was a place to put these objects, a standard way to put them there, and a way to preserve them. This has begun to change...

The Design and Implementation of a Fault-Tolerant Media Ingest System

Instead of handling media on video tapes, television companies are moving towards storing media in digital media archives. Populating a media archive with media files is known as ingesting the media. The DART system is a system capable of automatically scheduling ingest of media available through live video feeds. This is a complex process with several single-points-of-failure, points where, if...

Into the Archive: Potential and Limits of Standardizing the Ingest