Cultural Digital Library Indexing our Heritage (CLIOH)

The CLIOH Project is an initiative of the School of Informatics at Indiana University in Indianapolis and Bloomington. The CLIOH project proposes to establish a new medium digital library of the world's most threatened ancient cultural treasures, in collaboration with the University's libraries and the Mathers Museum, Bloomington, Indiana. The CLIOH project proposes over the next five years to collect data, index the data, and archive and develop multimedia applications of threatened global cultural treasures. The target sites of CLIOH are listed by criteria standards decreed by UNESCO (United Nations, Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as those that are currently threatened by serious and specific dangers. The CLIOH library will consist of original data taken of the target sites and artifacts, as they exist today and development of graphical recreations that allow the end user virtual viewing (3D models) as seen in their original state.
IU implemented an integrated massive data storage system based on the HPSS software developed by IBM and several US government laboratories and IBM and StorageTek tape and robotic tape technologies. Deployed over a wide area network, this centrally managed system provides a data storage infrastructure for the entire university supporting the storage requirements of administrative and academic systems and users. At IU, the HPSS system fosters greater collaboration between researchers, faculty, and students at the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses with instant access up to the 200 terabyte capacity.