DuraSpace, a US-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to preserving the world’s scholarly, scientific and cultural records, has announced the launch of its managed cloud service, DuraCloud.
DuraCloud is projected as the only managed software service that lets organisations archive content across more than one cloud provider. It seeks to ensure that irreplaceable documents, imagery and videos are always accessible. Various institutions in the US, including MIT, Columbia University, Northwestern University and Rice University, have signed up to use the managed cloud service to preserve digital resources.
Archiving digital libraries and research output for academic institutions, museums and other knowledge stewards, DuraCloud is said to offer replication and synchronisation of content across multiple cloud providers through one unified interface. It also offers access to a suite of applications embedded in the DuraCloud platform to do more with the user’s data; data distribution and streaming to any Internet-linked device; secure storage of digital archives and periodic content ‘health checks’ assuring information is being preserved as it should be; a simple-to-use yet powerful dashboard to manage all content across the cloud; and an open-source community dedicated to on-going technological development, along with support assistance to ease the transition into the cloud.
Funded in part by the Library of Congress through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), DuraSpace is committed to the open-source community and the technological advancement of the cloud. Current open-source projects include DSpace and Fedora.
DuraCloud is a free open-source project and fee-based subscription service, and is available to any organisation wishing to archive and preserve its content using the cloud, without locking into one single cloud provider.
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