After more than a year of research, planning, and handcrafted execution, CFA has finally completed the rollout of a suite of new systems and workflows for organizing, preserving, and storing the thousands of digital copies of films that we archive at CFA. These files represent countless hours of staff time spent scanning items from our collections, many of which are vulnerable to ongoing deterioration in their original physical forms. Preserving these digital files is of enormous importance to CFA’s mission.
Our new systems include an expandable onsite server (currently with a 200 TB capacity), offsite LTO backups, and a collection of internal tools for making sure we know which files are where. CFA’s Rebecca Hall provided superb project management know-how to drive this initiative forward. Thanks also to Erica Titkemeyer at Myriad Consulting for their ongoing consultation, and to tech wizard Jeff Kott, who helped us build a robust and streamlined system that stretches offsite and into the clouds.
Huge thanks to the DEW Foundation for their magnanimous support of this project!
