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DfR has the opportunity to reduce the impact of the data deluge on researchers — enabling them to concentrate on their real work — by automating many of the rote activities for handling digital research material. But DfR also has the opportunity to do much more since "value added" services can easily operate on data when copies reside in a Cloud. It is the work of this project to analyze researcher and research institution needs — then build software and offer services to meet those needs.
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Enterprise Cloud
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Backup
The first goal of DfR is to enable a "safe" Cloud storage infrastructure that automatically makes copies of research materials to a remote location, but still under the control of the research and/or institution. Having remote copies serve in the role of "backup" for research materials, particularly when only one copy exists on a computer "under the desk". Having the only copies in the same location does not protect you from losing your work to damage or destruction of the computer's storage or secondary backup (disk or tape). The copy must be remote.
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