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Now, getting back to our curator.  To utilize this task (or any other task in the Replication Task Suite), she can navigate logs in to DSpace, navigates to her collection, select the and chooses the "Edit Collection" option in her administrative interface.  From that edit screen, a 'curate' tab . Then from the provides her with a dropdown list of various curation tasks she chooses the appropriate task, .  Among those tasks, she will find the "Estimate Storage Space for AIP(s)" task listed, which she selects and clicks "Perform". On the page, the results will display:

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We should warn that the estimates from this task are rather crude, in that they do not measure the actual size of all AIPs. Rather they just total up the bitstream (file) sizes (and do not include metadata .xml files). However, even this crude estimate should provide a good estimate decent idea of overall storage needs.

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