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This has included remastering over a quarter of a million
analogue,
21-track and 9-track tapes, archiving borehole seismic
data, vectorising camera monitors and conducting a data audit.
In addition DPTS manages the BEB "Shadow Archive" in our Kent
data store.
The experience that DPTS has gained in managing BEB data
was a significant factor in the decision of BEB to award a
new archive project to DPTS. This project involved the remastering
of approximately 40,000 9-track tapes, 3480 and 3490E cartridges
to 3590 cartridge.
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A key element of the project was the indexing requirements.
The BEB tape database is OPEN RSO and the "Shadow Archive"
tape database at DPTS is Diplomat MultiStore. Both databases
were compared in order to produce a complete set of data for
archiving, and MultiStore was used to control the production
process.
After remastering one set of 3590 outputs are being stored
by DPTS and the other set by BEB. The input tapes
and "Shadow Archive" tapes have been recycled or destroyed
in an environmentally friendly manner.
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