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Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, March 14, 2014
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Agenda
Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners Meeting
Abigail PotterNational Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
Library of Congress
Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, March 14, 2014
Overview
• NDSA
• National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
• How to Get Involved
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NDSA
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is a collaborative effort to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of generations now and in the future.
The mission of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance is to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve our nation’s digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa
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NDSA & the Library of Congress
U.S. Congress (1789 – present)
Library of Congress (1800 – present)
NDIIPP (2000 – present)
NDSA (2010 – present)
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Objectives
Membership network of over 160 partners taking stewardship action toward three primary objectives:– Identifying, communicating and advocating for
common needs of member organizations.– Convening and sustaining a national community
of practice for digital stewardship.– Providing lightweight professional development for
staff at member organizations.
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa
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How We Work Together5 Working Groups
Elected Coordinating Committee
Supported by Secretariat/NDIIPP
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups
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How We Work Together• NDSA Coordinating Committee
– Micah Altman, MIT– Jonathan Crabtree, Odum Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill– Jim Corridan, Indiana Commission on Public Records– Meg Phillips, National Archives– Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia– John Spencer, BMS/Chace– Helen Tibbo, UNC-Chapel Hill– Kate Wittenberg, Portico
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Output
• Reports and Guidance Materials – Levels of Digital Preservation, the NDSA Storage Survey, the
NDSA Staffing Survey, Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data Report, Web Archiving Survey
• Meetings and Events– NDSA Regional Meetings (Past: Philadelphia, NYC and Boston.
Upcoming: Chicago)– Digital Preservation 2014 – July 22-23
• Knowledge Sharing– Monthly or bi-monthly calls and briefings, demos and
presentations on tools, techniques and approaches
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities/
What Have We Done Lately?• 2014 National Agenda For Digital Stewardship• Storage Survey• Levels of Preservation Activity• Report: “Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data”• Web Archiving Survey• Digital Preservation in a Box resource kit• Annual Innovation Awards• Report: “Staffing For Effective Digital Preservation”• Report: "The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3 File Format for
Archival Institutions“• Report: "Geospatial Data Stewardship: Key Online Resources"
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities/
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Agenda: “A list or program of things to be done or considered” – The Free Dictionary
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What is the National Agenda
“The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship integrates the perspective of dozens of experts and hundreds of institutions, convened through the Library of Congress, to provide funders and other executive decision‐makers with insight into emerging technological trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity, and key areas for development.”
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National Agenda Topic Areas
• Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
• Digital Content Areas
• Technical Infrastructure Development
• Research Priorities
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/nationalagenda
Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
• Work together to raise the profile of digital preservation and campaign for more resources and higher priority given to digital preservation
• Highlight the importance of digital curation and the real costs of ensuring long term access
• Coordinate to develop comprehensive coverage on critical standards bodies
• Promote systematic community monitoring of technology changes relevant to digital preservation
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Organizational : Examples
• NDSA Report: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation
• National Digital Stewardship Residency
• POWRR: Preserving (Digital) Objects With Restricted Resources
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Digital Content Areas
• Electronic Records
• Research Data
• Web and Social Media
• Moving Image and Recorded Sound
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Digital Content Areas: Examples
• Web Archiving Survey (report in 2014)
• Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data report
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Technical Infrastructure Development
• File Format Action Plan Development– Many formats to manage– Standards needed/guidelines
• Interoperability and Portability in Storage Architectures
• Integration of Digital Forensics Tools– Research needed
• Ensuring Content Integrity (Migration, Fixity checks)
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Tech Arch: Examples
• Levels of Preservation guidance
• Designing Storage Architectures Meeting
• Work to define fixity
• PDF/A report
• Geospatial report
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Research Areas
• Applied Research for Cost Modeling & Audit Modeling
• Understanding Information Equivalence and Significance
• Policy Research and Trust Frameworks
• Preservation at Scale
• Strengthening the Evidence Base
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What can I do with the Agenda?
• Policy driver– Suggest collaborative opportunities
• Funding driver– Makes the case for stewardship to decision-
makers
• Communication tool that catalyzes digital stewardship activity– Useful tool to start conversation
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Get Involved
• Join the NDSA– No membership fees– Ask for your participation
• Contribute to NDSA Open Calls for Participation!
• Let us know what you need
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa
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Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, March 14, 2014
Thanks!
The Signal blog
blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/
Abigail [email protected]
@ndiipp
www.facebook/digitalpreservation
@NDSA2