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This is not a blog post about our successful implementation of Kubernetes, but rather how and why we decided not to migrate to Kubernetes after two years of work. I will attempt to call out our hypotheses and acknowledge where our thinking was wrong, and ultimately talk about the difficulties we faced and lessons we learned along the way.

The Rockefeller Archive Center is developing a system wherein audiovisual file delivery, validation, quality control, and affixing rights statements can occur entirely in a Cloud setting.

Interning for the Rockefeller Archive Center at the Cohen Library’s Archives and Special Collections this spring semester gave me the opportunity to understand the process of archival preservation and research.

As an undergraduate history major, history is something that has mostly existed for me in the abstract: as a set of ideas and arguments over the events of the past; humankind’s cumulative collection of stories that have shaped the present. Yet, I always knew that there was an underlying foundation, the physical evidence that holds together and allows researchers to expand the construction of history.

It’s been a busy few weeks of conferences for the D-Team, and it wrapped up for me with the 2023 Information Architecture Conference (or IAC23 as it’s more commonly known). While not on my regular rotation (the last IAC I attended was in 2016 in Atlanta), I continue to find this conference a welcoming, provocative, and generative environment. Since this is probably not a conference that other archivists attend with any regularity, I thought I’d provide a rundown of the themes that stood out for me this year, as well as a couple of the talks which most resonated with me.