Cloud Archives at the University of Southern California: The USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Digital Repository

Published: Oct. 26, 2012, 7 a.m.

Sam Gustman, Chief Technology Officer of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, spoke at Dartmouth on October 26, 2012. The Shoah Foundation is the custodian of the Visual History Archive, a collection of 51,696 audiovisual testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Mr. Gustman discussed the archive’s founding and resources, including how their systems and processes are now used by the USC Digital Repository to provide cloud services to collections from around the world. The talk was co-sponsored by ISTS, the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Dartmouth College Library.