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ERA Virtual Archives Laboratory (VAL)
ERA is building a VAL to test products and gather additional research knowledge on the requirements of large scale and long term archiving of electronic records. ERA will use the VAL to test products in the market place and as a vehicle to gather additional research knowledge. In the first VAL project, NARA is partnering with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) to design and test an architecture for a Federated Persistent Archives. In this first phase, several terabytes of NARA-designated data collections will be ingested, registered, and replicated among the three sites. |