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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


Overview

• NDSA

• National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

• How to Get Involved


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


NDSA & the Library of Congress

U.S. Congress (1789 – present)

Library of Congress (1800 – present)

NDIIPP (2000 – present)

NDSA (2010 – present)


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.


Regional Members



How We Work Together5 Working Groups

Elected Coordinating Committee

Supported by Secretariat/NDIIPP

www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups


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


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/



Agenda: “A list or program of things to be done or considered” – The Free Dictionary


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.”


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


Organizational : Examples

• NDSA Report: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation

• National Digital Stewardship Residency

• POWRR: Preserving (Digital) Objects With Restricted Resources


Digital Content Areas

• Electronic Records

• Research Data

• Web and Social Media

• Moving Image and Recorded Sound


Digital Content Areas: Examples

• Web Archiving Survey (report in 2014)

• Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data report


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)


Tech Arch: Examples

• Levels of Preservation guidance

• Designing Storage Architectures Meeting

• Work to define fixity

• PDF/A report

• Geospatial report


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


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


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

[email protected]




Thanks!

The Signal blog

blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/

Abigail [email protected]

@ndiipp

www.facebook/digitalpreservation

@NDSA2

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Documents

groupsmi digital practitioners

digital stewardshiphow

nations digital resources

present ndsa

national community of

stewardship action

ndsa staffing survey

ndsa storage survey