NDSA:Submitted Comments

Comment #1:

The LOCKSS team has four priority comments to be added to the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship draft outline. Please let us know if you need additional information.

Section II.a.i. Include the trend of web content from the document model to the programming environment model, leading to content that is dynamic and personalized to each viewer, and thus much more difficult to ingest, preserve, and disseminate.

Section II.b.ii. Include the collection of actual data on which research can be based. For example, only recently has work from INA and BL collected actual data about the format life-cycle as opposed to the myths on which almost the entire digital preservation strategy has been based.

Section II.c.ii. Stress economic threats to preservation (with examples such as the UK AHDS) and thus the importance of better cost models.

Section II.d.ii. Address the role of open source software in preservation, and the importance of preserving open source repositories such as SourceForge, github and kernel.org. They are not merely vital resources for digital preservation, but are also cultural productions of the highest significance for future scholars. Furthermore, they are both technically and legally the easiest form of content to preserve.