GWU Libraries Digital Stewardship Service Catalog - Detailed information
Summary information can be found at library.gwu.edu/digital-stewardship-services.
Storage: Content deposited on obsolete digital media is intermixed with non-digital material and stored together with paper, photographic, audiovisual analog, and other non-digital. The material is in climate-controlled storage.
Funding opportunities may exist to support conservation and extraction of this material.
*Note on access: This material is not directly publicly accessible. Users may fund ingest of materials into Tier 1 and/or Tier 2 through standard Special Collections copy requests, at a fee.
Storage: Washington Research Library Consortium, standard virtual machine
Backups: 29-day Forever Forward Incremental Backups with 30-day full backups, on-site.
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*Note on access: Tier 1 content currently receives public access via ScholarSpace and ScholarSpace-ETDs
Storage: Washington Research Library Consortium, standard virtual machine
Backups: 59-day Forever Forward Incremental Backups with 60-day full backups, quarterly full backups retained for 1 year, and annual full backups retained for 1 year.
Fixity checks: Also known as "file checks". All Tier 2 files receive SHA-1 checksums, audited approximately weekly using the GW Audit Tool (see below).
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*Note on access: Not all Tier 2 content currently receives public access. Materials that are made available publicly may be made available via: