{"id":8866,"date":"2026-08-20T02:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:00:47","slug":"archive-it-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8866","title":{"rendered":"Archive-IT Vault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Store, manage, and preserve digital collections with Vault, a flexible and customizable digital repository and preservation solution designed for libraries, heritage and arts organizations, publishers, researchers, and individuals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just heard about the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/vault\/\">Archive-IT Vault<\/a>. For a one-time fee you can deposit materials to archive. The key is that you pay a &#8220;one-time price per gigabyte\/terabyte for data deposited in the system, with no additional annual storage fees or data egress costs.&#8221; This way you don&#8217;t have to continue paying or lose your archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One wonders how long the Vault will last. Given that it builds on the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a>&#8216;s experience and infrastructure, it is probably a good bet that it will last some time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m reminded of Ian McEwan&#8217;s <em>What We Can Know<\/em> which is partly about what we might be able to know about the present in a post-ecological disaster future. All sorts of digital records have been preserved and can be searched by AI, but historians still don&#8217;t know what happened to a key document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store, manage, and preserve digital collections with Vault, a flexible and customizable digital repository and preservation solution designed for libraries, heritage and arts organizations, publishers, researchers, and individuals. Just heard about the Archive-IT Vault. For a one-time fee you can deposit materials to archive. The key is that you pay a &#8220;one-time price per gigabyte\/terabyte &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archive-IT Vault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}