katherine skinner, educopia institute emily gore, clemson university u.s. workshop on roadmap for...

Katherine Skinner, Educopia InstituteEmily Gore, Clemson University

U.S. Workshop on Roadmap for Digital Preservation Interoperability FrameworkNIST, Gaithersburg, MD March 29, 2010

Chronicles in Distributed Digital Preservation

A distributed digital preservation cooperative for digital archives

Founded in 2004; supported by combination of sponsored funding (NDIIPP, NHPRC), consulting fees, and membership fees

Provides digital preservation infrastructure and training and models to enable other groups to establish similar networks

Skinner & Gore, 2010

Cultural memory organizations must maintain their historical role as cultural stewards Preservation of digital assets as corollary to

preserving physical ones Need in house expertise and knowledge Value of curators and librarians and archivists


Capitalize on cultural memory organization’s proven preservation methodologies Replication of content Distribution of content Partnership to keep costing affordable



Current MembersAuburn UniversityBoston CollegeClemson UniversityFlorida State UniversityFolger Shakespeare LibraryGeorgia TechLibrary of CongressPenn State UniversityPUC Rio de JaneiroRice UniversityUniversity of HullUniversity of LouisvilleUniversity of North TexasUniversity of South CarolinaVirginia Tech

Current AffiliatesLibrary of CongressNDLTDSDSC Chronopolis

reducing our short- and long-term costs Investing in a commonly-owned solution, not purchasing a

service Sharing technological development and organizational tasks

decentralizing our activities Safety in this “brave new world” of digital preservation may

well reside in shared knowledge and shared commitment

decreasing dependence on third-party solutions There is room for various types of solutions Increased capacity for acting as a community of cultural

stewards


501(c)(3) host, Board of DirectorsSteering Committee

Comprised of Sustaining MembersWorking Committees

Content Preservation Technical


Archives based on subjects and genres Proposals considered by Content

Committee and approved by the Steering Committee

Current archives include: Southern Digital Culture Archive ETD Archive (with NDLTD) Early and Modern Literature Archive Newspaper Archive General Archive


Some genres of content may need specific types of attention in the preservation process E.g., ETDs, E-Records, Datasets,

Newspapers


Why Newspapers? NDNP placing focus on newspaper digitization

and establishing best practices Prior to and outside of NDNP, universities

digitize newspapers to varying standards, many of which include article-level encoding or even TEI

Today’s newspapers are born-digital and in some have moved to digital-only – NDNP focuses primarily on historic newspaper digitization


Member-driven archival designation Current members with newspaper

collections Penn State University* Clemson University Virginia Tech Georgia Tech Boston College University of North Texas*

*NDNP participants


Not “ideal” collections—”real” collections! Both born-digital and digitized content Digitized are encoded using varying

encoding levels, corrected and uncorrected OCR and different display systems

Born-digital, range of formats and metadata

All stored in myriad ways/systems


text


Penn State – showing article level encoding & segmentation

Study needs of digital newspaper collection curators & status of current collections

Create preservation tools & best practices based on findings that can be widely used

Implement these tools & best practices in our Digital Newspaper Archive and provide documentation for others seeking to preserve digital newspapers


Survey, 2009 Seek advice on appraisal, selection, and

prioritization of material Need assistance in moving content safely from

their repository systems (including vendor-based) into a preservation environment

Survey, 2010 appraisal and prioritization issues, existing or

planned practices, intellectual property issues


Develop data model and best practices for specific issues of concern in collaborative newspaper preservation efforts appraisal and prioritization of content metadata data structures intellectual property considerations inter-organizational agreements related to

distributed preservation networks


Standards & Specifications METS (Library of Congress) and BagIt

(CDL and Library of Congress) Tools

enable content exchanges between leading newspaper repository systems (including Olive, CONTENTdm, DigiTool, and DSpace) and LOCKSS

Recovery pathways


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