Taming the Pre-Ingest Processing Monster

One of the biggest threats to ensuring long-term access to our digital heritage is the cost of preservation; also, one of the critical cost drivers is the set of activities associated with selection, acquisition, and other pre-ingest processing (such as quality assurance of acquired artifacts). Therefore, this question is raised: how do we scale what might be called “pre-ingest” activities without scaling up our costs at the same rate?

As Portico was working on their “next-generation” technical infrastructure, they developed new analytics services.  These services automated among others the insurance of storage policy consistency and some of those pre-ingest processes associated with quality assurance of content.