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- Migrated all servers to virtual machines infrastructure and increased capacity.
- Migrated help and moderation arXiv admin interactions from email to a ticketing system.
- Gathered requirements to improve tools and interfaces to support moderators in interacting more directly and efficiently with the arXiv system and administrators. Started work on improvements.
- Reviewed use of and experience with the Data Conservancy pilot, which ended in March 2013 (see pilot documentation of our conclusions). We will continue to support modest sized datasets and other materials using the existing ancillary files mechanism and will ingest data from the pilot as ancillary files to support it long-term.
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