Oxford use IBM's ADSM to provide an archive for the whole University. began operation in 199x. Strong interest in meta-data. About 3 Tbytes of data. Holds data from earliest computation in Cambridge. Leeds use an in-house system to provide an archive for the whole University.
Current system is designed for indefinitely long life.
About 1 Tbyte of data, in approx 2.7 million files belonging to several thousand users. The following are some issues which I perceive as important. Keep the format - or convert i.e. emulation v conversion I like the OAIS's notion of being able to recover the original data stream. An easy wasy to do that is to keep the original. I think that we shall keep something very close to the original.