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Process

Microsoft Teams

• LIB DarkArchive File Review Team: Workspace for curatorial and digital preservation review of files

• LIB Digital Preservation>DarKive Channel: The initial analysis and documentation channel

Phase I

Initially, the plan was to to have gross decisions made by curatorial staff as to disposition prior to the end of the CY2023, and have the content staged on the K-drive for eventual processing into Digital Collections, or into a dedicated Team for eventual ingest into the Gray Repo. The first step in the process was to generate data regarding the number of files and their sizes per folder within the Dark Archive. The data was then collated and analyzed within Excel spreadsheets to determine the scope of the project and allow a first pass of curatorial review. Digital Preservation cross-referenced this data to prior analyses, and discovered discrepancies in the data reported. However, it became evident that the data retrieved might not be the whole picture, and after meeting with curatorial stakeholders they need an effective way to test view the content to help them make decisions.

Therefore, the LIB DarkArchive File Review has been created to migrate all of the Dark Archive. This will allow Digital Preservation to run DROID and create detailed manifests for curatorial review, as well as allow the curators a read only view of the files to assist them with their decision-making process.

Phase II

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION