We are digitizing National Forest Insect Collection at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. We have taken thousands of high resolution digital photographs of about 19,000 insect species. Therefore to safe guard this effort we need to archive this huge digital collection. M-disc technology is known to archive such works for several hundreds of year. If some one of you is using this technology/product, I shall be happy to know about your experience and suggest newer product available in the market, if any. Kindly suggest make and models of M-Disc burners and M-Discs.
Thanks
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Dear Sudhir Singh , I would strongly recommend the adoption of a Digital Repository (there are Digital Repository offers in the Cloud), as opposed to focusing on M-Disc or any other media. The modern Digital Preservation focuses on Systemic or Active Digital Preservation, with Digital Preservation environments that follow Standards such as the OAIS Model (ISO 14721 Standard). A media can always became obsolete, however a Digital Repository will always be updating its digital or digitized materials and keep then secure.
Sir,
Among the more popular repository applications are DSpace and Fedora (flexible extensible digital object and repository architecture). Released in 2002, DSpace is a general-purpose, open source repository application, developed jointly by HP Labs and MIT Libraries, and targeted at multi-disciplinary research organisations. Freely available to other institutions to run in the form in which they find it or to modify and extend, DSpace uses a qualified Dublin Core metadata standard for the description of digital objects, and supports OAI-PMH (open archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting) (Smith et al. 2003). Fedora, which grew out of work on the Digital Library in the late 1990s (Payette & Staples 2002), takes a different approach. Both an architecture and a software platform, it is an open source, digital object repository system that uses web services to call other services as well as to expose its own. Fedora stores digital content objects either as datastreams contained within the repository or as links to external resources, tying each to a default disseminator, or method of rendering the object. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/digital-repository)
If you want to make sure that your data is safe, don't stick just to one way/technic of their archivisation. In our institute we still do both: store digital pictures on external servers (two different localisations) and burn BlueRay discs, which are stored physically in the institute physical archive.
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