The digital preservation system will draw from state-of-the-art archival theory and practice, will fully exploit contemporary technical platforms for scalable computation and storage, and will rely upon community supported open source and/or commercial product solutions. This project will have a phased approach:
Phase I: Discovery
July 2022 through June 2023
Objective: Designing an ideal repository
- Stakeholder consultation, literature review, concept mapping
- Establish functional and non-functional requirements
- Define independent but interoperable abstract models for storage, processing, data, and interaction as benchmarks for solution evaluation
- Evaluate budget and planned team design to determine whether adjustments are necessary before moving into Planning phase
Phase II: Planning
July 2023 through February 2024
Objective: Designing an achievable repository
- Survey landscape for possible solutions, whether locally developed, open source, or commercial
- Buy versus build decision, followed by an RFP or Agile development plan
- Define migration and QA plan
- Determine support plan
- Make procurement decision
- Evaluate plans for development, migration, and support against budget and team design to determine suitability for Implementation phase
Phase III: Implementation
March 2024 through June 2025
Objective: Deploying an operational repository
- Deploy or develop new solution
- Customize and/or integrate as necessary
- Perform migration of content and/or metadata to new solution
- Perform acceptance testing
- Create documentation and conduct outreach and training
- Release new solution to production
- Decommission legacy system
- Conduct post-delivery assessment