Welcome to the Media Vault

The U.C. Berkeley Media Vault applies proven curatorial archiving and preservation methods (based on the OAIS and other internationally accepted models) with services available to the campus to address the needs of those who manage and want to provide access to digital media collections.

What's New

5/6: MVP-DRM services are now online.

4/25: MVP-DRM server is up and running.

1/29: Case Study Sample posted

1/14: January 08 MVP Retreat Roster

12/19: Sample and Templates posted for POC Project Write-ups

11/13: MVP Retreat Slide Deck and Retreat Notes

11/01: Updated MVP Proof-of-Concept - (remaining) schedule

Announcements

5-6-08 - MV goes 8.5.2 and MySQL

The MV DRM server is now running 8.5.2 Portfolio services, and is fully integrated with the Vault. MySQL services are operational, all tests successful.

4-25-08 - Announcing MVP Digital Resource Management Server

The Media Vault DRM is a new server in the Data Center that will provide the MVP with robust digital asset management, web and database services.

3-14-08 - Successful test with xServe

MV digital management services are online and undergoing additional testing and setup.

3-7-08 - Significant Progress Made on MV Systems. MV rearchitecture defined

MV Vaulting services continue to be online and secure. We have completed a battery of tests, consulting with internal technical experts and the vendor. We have sucessfully converted to Portfolio Enterprise Services 8.5, and have resolved virtually all of the performance issues that have been impacting the program. We will report our findings and our plans for being back online early next week.

3-7-08 - Results of Disater Recovery Testing Program

The efforts of Patrick Schmitz and IST teams on disaster recovery are posted here. The bottom line: Although there were some hiccups and lessons to be learned, the test was a success. We validated the security of backups and the process to restore MVP media, metadata, catalogs and associated content. Read the full report.

2-11-08 - Performance Update

We have discovered a fundamental configuration problem that is the likely cause of most performance problems that have plagued the MVP. We will keep you posted, but plan to resolve this by the end of the week.

For Mac users of the MVP, we are pleased to report that Leopard 10.5.2 addresses the bug that required AdmitMac in order to connect to Windows shares (SMB). We have been tracking this bug for several months. More to this story in the next few days.

Additional, older announcements

 

Browse the current collections
See what the proof of concept partners are exposing, and how you can search it

Start page for participants Documentation for participants on getting set up with the program, what you'll need to prepare, etc.

More information about the Program and the Proof of Concept Project.

Training Materials provided June 18 and 20.

 

Core team site on CalShare for key documents and issues.