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Planning and managing the cost of compromise for AV retention and access

Planning and managing the cost of compromise for AV retention and access
Planning and managing the cost of compromise for AV retention and access
Long-term retention and access to audiovisual (AV) assets as part of a preservation strategy inevitably involve some form of compromise in order to achieve acceptable levels of cost, throughput, quality, and many other parameters. Examples include quality control and throughput in media transfer chains; data safety and accessibility in digital storage systems; and service levels for ingest and access for archive functions delivered as services. We present new software tools and frameworks developed in the PrestoPRIME project that allow these compromises to be quantitatively assessed, planned, and managed for file-based AV assets. Our focus is how to give an archive an assurance that when they design and operate a preservation strategy as a set of services, it will function as expected and will cope with the inevitable and often unpredictable variations that happen in operation. This includes being able to do cost projections, sensitivity analysis, simulation of “disaster scenarios,” and to govern preservation services using service-level agreements and policies.
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Jacyno, M.
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McArdle, M.
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Hall-May, M.
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Phillips, S.C.
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Addis, M.J.
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Jacyno, M.
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McArdle, M.
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Hall-May, M.
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Addis, M.J., Jacyno, M., McArdle, M., Hall-May, M. and Phillips, S.C. (2012) Planning and managing the cost of compromise for AV retention and access. SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, 121 (1), 32-38. (doi:10.5594/j18133).

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Long-term retention and access to audiovisual (AV) assets as part of a preservation strategy inevitably involve some form of compromise in order to achieve acceptable levels of cost, throughput, quality, and many other parameters. Examples include quality control and throughput in media transfer chains; data safety and accessibility in digital storage systems; and service levels for ingest and access for archive functions delivered as services. We present new software tools and frameworks developed in the PrestoPRIME project that allow these compromises to be quantitatively assessed, planned, and managed for file-based AV assets. Our focus is how to give an archive an assurance that when they design and operate a preservation strategy as a set of services, it will function as expected and will cope with the inevitable and often unpredictable variations that happen in operation. This includes being able to do cost projections, sensitivity analysis, simulation of “disaster scenarios,” and to govern preservation services using service-level agreements and policies.

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Published date: January 2012
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science, IT Innovation

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Local EPrints ID: 339228
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/339228
ISSN: 1545-0279
PURE UUID: 063acca3-651c-44c9-99b8-2bd40c8ecb20
ORCID for S.C. Phillips: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7901-0839

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Date deposited: 24 May 2012 11:07
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:58

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Author: M.J. Addis
Author: M. Jacyno
Author: M. McArdle
Author: M. Hall-May
Author: S.C. Phillips ORCID iD

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