Updates can be found on our working group page here.

Bottom Line: need a storage solution for media editing and 1 for dead (archival) storage document storage.

Action Plan: Testing and going via the UBC Shared network system. Will involve multiple users from several departments and UBCIT.

Current User test group: LFS, MedIT, UBC Studios, UBC Communications, Sauder.

Current contacts in the Loop: UBCIT Systems

Project Timeline:

• Form a user group and scope for interest in this project. (Done)
• Work out and confirm process with UBCIT Systems, User group and schedule a systems Speedtest.
  • Consisting of 1 contact from each user group running a Premiere File with multiple high Bitrate media files on the shared server. (Footage and Project File will be provided from UBC Studios)
  • The schedule for the testing is 1st or 2nd week of May as request by Jordi, so that if the servers cannot handle the stress that campus wide impact is kept to a minimum.
• If test fails, we go back to the drawing board.
• If test works, we establish a shared workflow to all video production teams so that during collaboration, we can locate and find files easily and effectively. Will also need to bring in Records Management for workflow structuring, naming conventions etc.
  • UBC Studios can also provide their workflow structure to those that are interested. (Accessed via UBC Confluence)
• Moving onto the shared drive and after (upcoming).