Digital libraries have been doing this for decades (Score 1)

There's a lot of work in this space from digital libraries for preservation of cultural heritage, state/official archives etc. Start with Open Archival Information Systems Reference Model (ISO-OAIS, an international standard originally from space agencies). PREMIS. Preservation metadata standard by US Library of Congress, but used around the world for digital assets. It works well with METS encoding standard and MIX technical metadata standard. PRONOM and DROID for format policy registries, monitoring and migration planning. Digital asset repositories like Fedora Commons Repository 4 (being worked on by DuraSpace community), that have built in fixity checking for bit rot and store to a wide range or underlying technologies (including file systems like ZFS, tar), etc. LOKSS for distributed archive relocation and exchange programs. Or TAHOE-LAFS. (There's also things like CryptoSphere coming). There's tools like ArchiveMatica too for ingestion workflows, characterization, etc etc too. See also the recent partnership with DuraSpace too. http://www.duraspace.org/artic....