Petabytes in Practice: Working with Collections as Data at Scale

Abstract

The emerging transdiscipline of Computational Archival Science (CAS) links frameworks such as Brown Dog and repository software such as Digital Repository At Scale To Invite Computation (DRAS-TIC) to yield an understanding of working with digital collections at scale for cultural data. The DRAS-TIC and Brown Dog projects here serve as the basis for an expandable distributed storage/service architecture with on-demand, horizontally scalable integrated digital preservation and analysis services.