Infrastructure (hardware)

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Infrastructure(hardware)
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Infrastructure(hardware)
Effective maintenance of digital files depends on
the proper management of a continuously changing
infrastructure of hardware, software, file
formats, and storage media.
Major changes in hardware can be expected every
1-2 years and in software every 1-5 years
(Vogt-O'Connor 2000).
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Infrastructure
And it's secure?
So where do you KEEP data and information,
so you wont loose it,
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Pass it off to the people hired to do it!
Who supervise and maintain the hardware, that
keep astride of the latest technologies, policies
and guidelines.
Use recognized, creditable, secure data and
information depositories and repositories.
Host it on web sites available through national
level servers.
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Typical Park-like Infrastructure
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Cost vs. Benefits

• Technology changing at a rapid rate
• Costs over time
• Secure System
• Control
• Accessibility by others

• Keeping pace with new formats
• Lower cost for same technology
• Less secure
• Less maintenance and migration

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Infrastructure - Policies and Guidance
NPS GSS Standard Procedures for Backup, Storage,
Recovery
NPS General Support System, Backup Activity Plan.

• Oversight on Information Technology
• Department of Interior (DOI)
• National Park Service (NPS)
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
  (NIST)