archival-tools.md

Archival Tools Eval

• Awesome Self-Hosted#archiving-and-digital-preservation-dp

CollectiveAccess

• https://collectiveaccess.org/
• Massive tool. Requires MySQL DB, web server, and two binaries:
  • Providence
  • Pawtucket
• Built on PHP -- red flag
• Looks very robust, functionally.

Conclusion:

• Too big a stack; too complex to deploy and maintain. Probably appropriate for intranets only.

Archivematica

• https://www.archivematica.org/en/
• Another one with a large stack.
• Doesn't seem to be very compatible with archiving web and media
• we want to be able to view media on the frontend, which it doesn't seem to be able to do
• large memory requirement: 2 GB minimum, 4 GB recommended.

Conclusion:

• Too big and complex.

Archive Box

• ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#207
• Standalone single python binary.
• has docker-compose script available; TODO: parse docker-compose.yml file and see if it would work
• might be able to port this into Go?

Conclusion:

• Promising