DRAFT - Under Construction
Site link: https://go.osu.edu/lib-dad
Introduction
The Dark Archive Deaccessioning Project is the successor project to the Master Objects Migration Project, which for various reasons never saw completion. The sFTP server that is known as the “Dark Archive” is being sunsetted and decommissioned at the end of CY2023. As such, University Libraries is taking this opportunity to make final disposition decisions regarding content within the Dark Archive. There are three potential decisions:
Migrate to the Digital Collections: Items that will receive item level description, and meet digitization standards or with documented exception.
Migrate to Gray Digital Preservation Repository: Knowledge Bank preservation files, born digital collections and digitized collections with rights issues, temporal restrictions or other ad-hoc permissible exceptions.
Disposal: Items that cannot be attributed to a particular collection, inferior digitization quality or no clear University ownership or rights.
Stakeholders
Project Owners & Providers
Leads
Dan Noonan, Digital Preservation Librarian
Terry Reese, Head of Digital Initiatives
Team
Kevin Latta, Digital Preservation Specialist
Travis Julian, Cloud Data Solutions Senior Analyst
Content Owners/Curators
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program
Ohio Public Policy Archives
Publishing & Repository Services
Thompson Special Collections
University Archives
Content Processing
Digital Preservation
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program
Metadata Initiatives
Ohio Public Policy Archives
Publishing & Repository Services
Thompson Special Collections
University Archives
Consultants
Copyright Services
Digitization
Informed Parties
Executive Committee
Management Committee (or successor)
Subject Liaisons