Ménage-à-préservation: The tensions of Digital Preservation as-a-Service…
Digital preservation as-a-service (DPaaS) is a concept that could potentially allow many more users to satisfy the need to maintain ‘records’. Be those records in government, in another so-called GLAM institution, or one’s own personal memories and artefacts.
DPaaS makes sense on a number of levels as it enables the sharing of some very expensive infrastructure and individuals (storage, backup, delivery servers, software maintenance, engineers).
Those savings could be significant but I’m not aware of any single exemplar of the complete DPaaS infrastructure operating out there right now.
My instinct is that this is because one does not simply do digital preservation.
But that’s an overly dramatic simplification. I wrote up some rough notes off the back of a conversation. I take a look at these below.
Formatted 2025 for SEO and ActivityPub optimization. Original post: 28 April, 2017
