Digital Management and Preservation - anyone working with Rosetta? - Forum

Lise Summers March 8, 2016 at 10:45pm

May I copy this across to the software group? There may be some different responses.

Lise

Gionni Di Gravio > Lise Summers March 9, 2016 at 7:48am

Sure.

David Adams February 25, 2016 at 2:49pm

The National Library of New Zealand and Archives New Zealand are using this platform for digital preservation.

Each organization uses slightly different ingest applications. I have worked with both institutions in relation to this system and the platform combined with dedicated staff has proven to be a successful and very robust system. I highly recommend it.

David Adams | Manager Preservation and Repository Services

Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga

Gionni Di Gravio > David Adams February 26, 2016 at 7:57am

Thanks David,

Your response is much appreciated.

From the responses above, it appears this application is beyond our reach. While desirable, as it ticks all the boxes in my archival brain, we just don't have the backup or support within our institution to roll out something of this magnitude. Would you know of any smaller institutions that have been able to use it?
- Somaya Langley > Gionni Di Gravio March 9, 2016 at 11:59am
  
  I agree that Rosetta does require multiple dedicated staff in the role(s) of: Digital Preservation Technical Analysts, Digital Archivists and Systems Support staff - there may be other roles too, depending on how an organisation decides on how to spilt the tasks. It would be worth talking to staff at the National Library of New Zealand about their resourcing numbers and what these increased to after implementing Rosetta.
  
  I know that I am already struggling with the range of new work that implementing Rosetta for our digitised material is starting to produce (and this is typically uniform content). Supporting born-digital ingest, management/digital preservation and provision of access to a wide range of formats will increase the workload and range of tasks significantly.

Somaya Langley February 5, 2016 at 10:36am

Hi Gionni,

We here at the State Library of New South Wales are currently implementing Rosetta. We are still yet to build the born-digital ingest workflows, which will be happening over the coming months. The focus so far has been developing ingest mechanisms for batch loading of digitised content.

Rosetta requires content to be ingested as SIPs (Submission Information Packages), however a SIP generation tool isn't part of the Rosetta product. Our developers are writing these scripts in-house. National Library of New Zealand developed their Indigo tool (to generate SIPs) in order to ingest files into Rosetta. We need to do a lot of batch loading of content as well as retaining things like modification datetime stamps for born-digital content.

Keep in mind for born-digital content that you'll need to have transferred all the data from carriers (floppy disks, optical media etc.) and have undertaken some preconditioning on the files (particularly addressing files with filenames containing illegal characters or files that are labelled with one file extension, but are actually a different type of file) prior to ingest into Rosetta - otherwise this is likely to end up in the Rosetta 'Technical Analyst Workbench' rather than being pushed through to the permanent part of the repository.

The best way to do this is to run DROID over the collection you wish to ingest and address any problems that DROID reports, prior to ingesting into Rosetta.

We have been very lucky here to have been able to seek advice from NLNZ and Archives NZ. They have been working with Rosetta for a number of years.

There are other preservation systems that I expect you'll know of:

Archivematica - https://www.archivematica.org/en/
Roda - http://www.roda-community.org/
Preservica - http://preservica.com/

Contacts and former colleagues of mine have spoken highly of both Archivematica and Roda.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Somaya

Archivematica: open-source digital preservation system

Gionni Di Gravio > Somaya Langley February 5, 2016 at 11:03am

Hi Somaya,

Thanks for this detailed overview, much appreciated.

I'm happy that some major players are on board with this, as it's one thing to read to promotional material, another to hear how it is being implemented and what has to be done.

Regards,

Gionni
- Somaya Langley > Gionni Di Gravio February 5, 2016 at 11:11am
  
  No problems.
  
  Speaking with Digital Preservation Analysts and Digital Archivists at Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand would be very useful, and us to some degree as we undergo our development over the next couple of months.
  
  The promotional material will give you one perspective, yet staff working with systems will be able to advise on what is required to work with the system on a day-to-day basis as well as the resourcing that is required to adequately support the system and the workflows.
  
  Thanks, Somaya

Kirsten Thorpe February 5, 2016 at 10:21am

Hi Gionni - State Library of NSW is also implementing Rosetta. Info here:

http://blog.sl.nsw.gov.au/media/index.cfm/2014/12/4/the-state-libra...

Kirsten

David Knight February 5, 2016 at 10:04am

Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand are both using Rosetta.

You can contact Archives NZ on this email address: rkadvice@dia.govt.nz

For National Library of NZ and the NDHA (National Digital Heritage Archive) programme try this email: NDHA@dia.govt.nz (http://digitalpreservation.natlib.govt.nz/)

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