Legacy storage → Archivematica (Arkivum Perpetua)
The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection set out to preserve its Photoarchive — over 1.2 million digital reproductions built up over two decades — adopting Arkivum's managed 'Perpetua' service, which runs Archivematica as its preservation engine. The project is a candid lesson in scale: because Archivematica logs a PREMIS event for every microservice action on every file, ingesting huge batches produced METS XML manifests gigabytes in size that crippled performance. The Frick re-architected its pre-ingest staging, segmenting the collection into smaller logical batches to keep the manifests manageable. A valuable, honest account of the engineering realities of preserving millions of files.
Original source
ArchivematicaCon 2021 — The Frick Collection Photoarchive
Archivematica Wiki / The Frick Collection
The archived copy opens a snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, preserved for when the original moves or disappears.
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