The National Library of Scotland (NLS) was established in 1925 and holds copies of every publication published in the UK, from medieval tomes to the Harry Potter series. The digital NLS initiative involves making the library’s collections available online by digitizing its archives, collecting born-digital publications and preserving this collection.
GlassHouse is providing consultancy to the NLS on the storage issues related to the digitization of its archives to improve public access, support a large number of online visitors and make its entire collection available across the internet.
To enable this digital library transformation, a new storage infrastructure was required to handle the thousands of traditional paper publications stored within the library’s archives, as well as the newer rich media data now also collected. The project is estimated to generate approximately 100TB of data, which also needs to be stored securely and accommodate the new publications being added daily.
