The Development of Digital Archives Management Tools for iRODS

The amount of digital data in today’s society is both enormous and constantly growing. Unfortunately, existing digital archives are often fragile and susceptible to data loss. Thus, as the amount of digital information continues to grow almost exponentially, it is increasingly important to develop new ways to manipulate this data and minimize the risk of data loss after hardware failures. In this paper, we create an improved data preservation system by working with iRODS, a distributed data management system suitable for data grids, digital libraries, and persistent archives. We develop a user interface, called UrSpace, provide a corresponding Sync Package, and also create a monitoring system (call SIMS) that can check iRODS for errors and monitor the system independently. These tools and system are currently used for the TELDAP program in Taiwan. Index Keyword Terms—TELDAP, Data Preservation.