Formation Defining and choosing your digital and media collections storage system
Training goals
Be able to:
- define storage policies, choose the means and storage technology adapted to each context,
- understand the vocabulary and storage principles to exchange efficiently with project managers, etc.
- draw up (or take part in drawing up) specifications.
Details
Contents
Storing, archiving, preserving: definitions.
Choosing digital storage systems:
- different storage systems:
. magnetic tape
. computerised magnetic tape.
.optical disks.
.electronic memory cards.
- Storage means and solutions:
."Offline" storage, "near online", "online": costs, time constraints, access.
.organising disks.
. using robots in tape libraries.
.CSM and HSM (Content and Hierarchical Storage Management), storage workflows.
. servers and storage networks.
. Virtualising storage and Cloud technology.
- selecting the stored format. Managing metadata.
Managing storage: access, naming, metadata, volumes, security and safekeeping issues, migration...
Assessing the cost of a storage solution.
Leading a project:
- defining needs.
-defining a digital storage/archiving policy.
- drawing up specifications.
- communicating efficiently with others: IT Dept, technical services, providers...
- follow the stages of the project.
Targeted at
Targeted at
Professionals who need to store and manage digital funds: audiovisual researchers, archivists, project managers…
Prerequisites
Open to professionals having taken "Analysing, describing and indexing audio-visual documents" or who know digital media file formats and their uses.
Training methods
Trainers
Media funds storage specialist.
Training methods
Theoretical presentations and concrete examples, followed by case studies.
Strong points
• A comprehensive approach to different storage solutions.
• List of criteria to make the best choices in every situation. • Case studies.