DataCentred will work with the National Holocaust Centre and Museum to digitally preserve the voice of Holocaust survivors.
The Centre is capturing survivors’ stories, passing on invaluable knowledge and experiences to future generations to learn from those who witnessed the Holocaust first hand. DataCentred will store the interviews with survivors filmed in High Definition 3D on its public cloud platform, which collectively amounts to 80 terabytes of data.
The interviews have been conducted as part of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum’s interactive Holocaust survivor testimony project which will launch in 2016. Currently, Holocaust survivors share their stories and testimonies with children at the Centre every week but each year as the survivors diminish in number, with them pass away their unique stories and the personal conversations that have been taking place across the country with both young and old.
The Centre’s ground breaking interactive testimony project uses advanced digital technologies to record the stories and answers to several hundred FAQs designed to document these survivors’ experiences, enabling generations of future visitors to the National Holocaust Centre and Museum to interact directly by asking them questions and hear them give their answers.
The technology will automatically select the correct response from the recorded data, creating the experience of talking to the survivors in near real time. The ten interviews, which collectively add up to 80 terabytes of data will be stored on DataCentred’s public cloud indefinitely.
DataCentred was selected to store the data partly due to its high ingest speed where, in a time critical environment, uploading one interview block of eight terabytes takes hours rather than weeks or months. A crucial element in realising this interactive testimony project, however, is DataCentred’s ability to securely and cost-effectively store the interviews for generations to come and to achieve this, three replicas of the data will be stored using the highly reliable and resilient Ceph storage software platform.
