Andrew Diamond
Senior Preservation Software & Systems Engineer
Academic Preservation Trust
Chip German
Program Director
Academic Preservation Trust
Nathan Tallman
Digital Content Strategist
University of Cincinnati
Jamie Little
Digital Programmer
University of Miami
Linda Newman
Head, Digital Collections and Repositories
University of Cincinnati
With the University of Cincinnati depositing the first “production” content in the newly completed repository of the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) consortium in December 2014, the APTrust team is seeing results of design choices made in previous months during development. Together with session attendees and member institutions, we’ll examine the rationale and results of decisions affecting the balance between reliability and performance as part of a broader look at what it is like to use the community-developed, cloud-based repository in its early days.