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NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members

2014-02-07T19:26:47Z

Kzwa: Added Deborah Kempe

'''Co-chairs:'''

* Co-chair: Andrea Goethals, Harvard University, andrea_goethals@harvard.edu
** I manage Harvard Library's digital preservation program and repository. I am interested in efforts to define and expose standards, best practices and guidance in managing preservation repositories.
* Co-chair: Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
** I manage software development projects in the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress where we build applications and services to support the digital content lifecycle.

'''Active members (In order of first names):'''
* Amy Kirchhoff, ITHAKA
** I am the Portico and JSTOR Archive Service Product Manager. I have a particular interest in standards related to content packaging, metadata, and file formats.
* Carol Kussmann, University of Minnesota Libraries
* Carolyn Campbell, Georgetown University Law Center Library, cms299@law.georgetown.edu
* Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
* Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve, chris@avpreserve.com
** Founder of AVpreserve and humbled to have the opportunity to collaborate with amazing organizations and people worldwide on matters related to digital preservation and asset management amongst others. Producer of open source applications for metadata management and digital preservation workflows.
* Deborah Kempe, Frick Art Reference Library
* Dina Sokolova, Columbia University
* Emily Frieda Shaw, University of Iowa Libraries
* Hannah Frost, Stanford University
* John Spencer, BMS/Chace
* Karen Cariani, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Kate Murray, Library of Congress
* Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center Library, lp627@law.georgetown.edu
* Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
* Mariella Soprano, California Institute of Technology, mariella@caltech.edu
* Mary Vardigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
** I am an assistant director at ICPSR where I oversee the Collection Delivery area. I am also Director of the Data Documentation Initiative(DDI), a project to establish an international standard for metadata describing data in the social and behavioral sciences.
* Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
* Meg Philips, National Archives and Records Administration
* Michelle Paolillo, Cornell University Library,
* Midge Coates, Auburn University Libraries, COATEMI@auburn.edu
* Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries, nancymcg@mit.edu
** I am Head of the Curation and Preservation Services department at MIT Libraries with primary responsibility for digital content and overall responsibility for content in all formats, and Director of the Digital Preservation Management Workshops(dpworkshop.org)
* Nick Sincaglia, NueMeta LLC, nsincaglia@nuemeta.com
* Paula De Stefano, New York University (NYU)
* Stephen P Davis, Columbia - Director, Columbia Libraries Digital Program, with overall responsibility for our Fedora-based digital preservation repository and program.
* Tracy Popp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Libraries
* Winston Atkins, Duke University Libraries, winston.atkins@duke.edu
* Vika Zafrin, Boston University Mugar Library, vzafrin@bu.edu

'''Alumni (In order of first names):'''
* Aaron Collie, Michigan State University
* Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
* Abbigail Swanton, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, abbigail.swanton@dpi.wi.gov
* Allison Munsell, Munsell Studio
* Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
* Andy Maltz, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
* Ben Fino-Radin, Rhizome
* Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California San Diego
* Charles Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Christopher Segura, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism-University of Louisiana at Lafayette, c.segura@louisiana.edu
* Claire W. White, Stock Artists Alliance
* Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, cliff@cni.org
* Courtney Michael, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Daniel R. Dodge, Thomson Reuters
* Daphne DeLeon, Nevada State Library and Archives
* Eileen Fenton, Portico
* Elizabeth Falk, Idaho State Archives
* Eugene Mopsik, American Society of Media Photographers
* Felicity Dykas, University of Missouri Libraries, dykasf@missouri.edu
* Gayle Porter, Chicago State University Library, gporter@csu.edu
* Glenn Clatworthy, Public Broadcasting Service
* Gregory Sanford, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
* Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
* Ido Peled, Ex Libris Group
* Jason Gish, Testronic Labs, jason.gish@testroniclabs.com
* Jennifer King, Hampshire College Library, jking@hampshire.edu
* Jennifer Waxman, New York University
* Jessica Branco Colati, Northeast Document Conservation Center
* Jessika Drmacich, Williams College, jgd1@williams.edu
* Jimi Jones, Library of Congress
* Joe Weisenbach, MAM-A Inc.
* John McCoskey, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
* Josh Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Joy Perrin, Texas Tech University Libraries, joy.m.perrin@ttu.edu
* Karen Eberhart, Brown University, karen_eberhart@brown.edu
* Kate Boyd, University of South Carolina, boydkf@mailbox.sc.edu
* Kelcy Shepherd, Five Colleges, Inc. / University of Massachusetts Amherst, kshepherd@amherst.edu
* Margaret Maes, Legal Information Preservation Alliance
* Mark Abrahamson, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
* Mark Evans, Tessella Inc.
* Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
* Matthew Harris Glover, MS Department of Archives & History, mglover@mdah.state.ms.us
* Matt Peters, Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center
* Matt Veatch, Kansas State Historical Society, mveatch@kshs.org
* Meghan Banach Bergin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, mbanach@library.umass.edu
* Michael Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
* Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University
* Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace
* Michele Timmons, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
* Nancy North, University of Michigan
* Nicole Joniec, The Library Company of Philadelphia
* Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation
* Rachel L. Frick, Council on Library and Information Resources: Digital Library Federation
* Robert R. Downs, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University
* Shane Beers, University of Michigan
* Shawn Rounds, Minnesota Historical Society
* Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries
* Sue DuBois, Ripley Entertainment Inc., dubois@ripleys.com
* Tammy T Beasley, New Hanover County Register of Deeds, tbeasley@nhcgov.com
* Victoria Walch, Council of State Archives
* Wayne Shoaf, University of Southern California
* Yair Brama, Ex Libris Group

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NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members

2014-02-06T19:30:34Z

Kzwa:

'''Co-chairs:'''

* Co-chair: Andrea Goethals, Harvard University, andrea_goethals@harvard.edu
** I manage Harvard Library's digital preservation program and repository. I am interested in better exposing standards and best practices that can help manage preservation repositories on a practical level. I will probably focus on best practice and guidance documents related to preservation policies and practices.
* Co-chair: Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
** I manage software development projects in the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress where we build applications and services to support the digital content lifecycle.

'''Active members (In order of first names):'''
* Amy Kirchhoff, ITHAKA
** I am the Portico and JSTOR Archive Service Product Manager. I have a particular interest in standards related to content packaging, metadata, and file formats.
* Carol Kussmann, University of Minnesota Libraries
* Carolyn Campbell, Georgetown University Law Center Library, cms299@law.georgetown.edu
* Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
* Dina Sokolova, Columbia University
* Emily Frieda Shaw, University of Iowa Libraries
* Hannah Frost, Stanford University
* John Spencer, BMS/Chace
* Karen Cariani, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Kate Murray, Library of Congress
* Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center Library, lp627@law.georgetown.edu
* Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
* Mariella Soprano, California Institute of Technology, mariella@caltech.edu
* Mary Vardigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
* Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
* Meg Philips, National Archives and Records Administration
* Michelle Paolillo, Cornell University Library,
* Midge Coates, Auburn University Libraries, COATEMI@auburn.edu
* Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries, nancymcg@mit.edu
** I am Head of the Curation and Preservation Services department at MIT Libraries with primary responsibility for digital content and overall responsibility for content in all formats, and Director of the Digital Preservation Management Workshops(dpworkshop.org)
* Nick Sincaglia, NueMeta LLC, nsincaglia@nuemeta.com
* Paula De Stefano, New York University (NYU)
* Stephen P Davis, Columbia - Director, Columbia Libraries Digital Program, with overall responsibility for our Fedora-based digital preservation repository and program.
* Tracy Popp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Libraries
* Winston Atkins, Duke University Libraries, winston.atkins@duke.edu
* Vika Zafrin, Boston University Mugar Library, vzafrin@bu.edu

'''Alumni (In order of first names):'''
* Aaron Collie, Michigan State University
* Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
* Abbigail Swanton, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, abbigail.swanton@dpi.wi.gov
* Allison Munsell, Munsell Studio
* Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
* Andy Maltz, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
* Ben Fino-Radin, Rhizome
* Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California San Diego
* Charles Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Christopher Segura, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism-University of Louisiana at Lafayette, c.segura@louisiana.edu
* Claire W. White, Stock Artists Alliance
* Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, cliff@cni.org
* Courtney Michael, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Daniel R. Dodge, Thomson Reuters
* Daphne DeLeon, Nevada State Library and Archives
* Eileen Fenton, Portico
* Elizabeth Falk, Idaho State Archives
* Eugene Mopsik, American Society of Media Photographers
* Felicity Dykas, University of Missouri Libraries, dykasf@missouri.edu
* Gayle Porter, Chicago State University Library, gporter@csu.edu
* Glenn Clatworthy, Public Broadcasting Service
* Gregory Sanford, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
* Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
* Ido Peled, Ex Libris Group
* Jason Gish, Testronic Labs, jason.gish@testroniclabs.com
* Jennifer King, Hampshire College Library, jking@hampshire.edu
* Jennifer Waxman, New York University
* Jessica Branco Colati, Northeast Document Conservation Center
* Jessika Drmacich, Williams College, jgd1@williams.edu
* Jimi Jones, Library of Congress
* Joe Weisenbach, MAM-A Inc.
* John McCoskey, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
* Josh Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Joy Perrin, Texas Tech University Libraries, joy.m.perrin@ttu.edu
* Karen Eberhart, Brown University, karen_eberhart@brown.edu
* Kate Boyd, University of South Carolina, boydkf@mailbox.sc.edu
* Kelcy Shepherd, Five Colleges, Inc. / University of Massachusetts Amherst, kshepherd@amherst.edu
* Margaret Maes, Legal Information Preservation Alliance
* Mark Abrahamson, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
* Mark Evans, Tessella Inc.
* Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
* Matthew Harris Glover, MS Department of Archives & History, mglover@mdah.state.ms.us
* Matt Peters, Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center
* Matt Veatch, Kansas State Historical Society, mveatch@kshs.org
* Meghan Banach Bergin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, mbanach@library.umass.edu
* Michael Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
* Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University
* Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace
* Michele Timmons, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
* Nancy North, University of Michigan
* Nicole Joniec, The Library Company of Philadelphia
* Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation
* Rachel L. Frick, Council on Library and Information Resources: Digital Library Federation
* Robert R. Downs, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University
* Shane Beers, University of Michigan
* Shawn Rounds, Minnesota Historical Society
* Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries
* Sue DuBois, Ripley Entertainment Inc., dubois@ripleys.com
* Tammy T Beasley, New Hanover County Register of Deeds, tbeasley@nhcgov.com
* Victoria Walch, Council of State Archives
* Wayne Shoaf, University of Southern California
* Yair Brama, Ex Libris Group

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NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members

2014-02-06T19:26:36Z

Kzwa:

'''Co-chairs:'''

* Co-chair: Andrea Goethals, Harvard University, andrea_goethals@harvard.edu
** I manage Harvard Library's digital preservation program and repository. I am interested in better exposing standards and best practices that can help manage preservation repositories on a practical level. I will probably focus on best practice and guidance documents related to preservation policies and practices.
* Co-chair: Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
** I manage software development projects in the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress where we build applications and services to support the digital content lifecycle.

'''Active members (In order of first names):'''
* Amy Kirchhoff, ITHAKA
** I am the Portico and JSTOR Archive Service Product Manager. I have a particular interest in standards related to content packaging, metadata, and file formats.
* Carol Kussmann, University of Minnesota Libraries
* Carolyn Campbell, Georgetown University Law Center Library, cms299@law.georgetown.edu
* Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
* Dina Sokolova, Columbia University
* Emily Frieda Shaw, University of Iowa Libraries
* John Spencer, BMS/Chace
* Karen Cariani, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Kate Murray, Library of Congress
* Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center Library, lp627@law.georgetown.edu
* Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
* Mariella Soprano, California Institute of Technology, mariella@caltech.edu
* Mary Vardigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
* Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
* Meg Philips, National Archives and Records Administration
* Michelle Paolillo, Cornell University Library,
* Midge Coates, Auburn University Libraries, COATEMI@auburn.edu
* Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries, nancymcg@mit.edu
** I am Head of the Curation and Preservation Services department at MIT Libraries with primary responsibility for digital content and overall responsibility for content in all formats, and Director of the Digital Preservation Management Workshops(dpworkshop.org)
* Nick Sincaglia, NueMeta LLC, nsincaglia@nuemeta.com
* Paula De Stefano, New York University (NYU)
* Stephen P Davis, Columbia - Director, Columbia Libraries Digital Program, with overall responsibility for our Fedora-based digital preservation repository and program.
* Tracy Popp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Libraries
* Winston Atkins, Duke University Libraries, winston.atkins@duke.edu
* Vika Zafrin, Boston University Mugar Library, vzafrin@bu.edu

'''Alumni (In order of first names):'''
* Aaron Collie, Michigan State University
* Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
* Abbigail Swanton, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, abbigail.swanton@dpi.wi.gov
* Allison Munsell, Munsell Studio
* Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
* Andy Maltz, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
* Ben Fino-Radin, Rhizome
* Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California San Diego
* Charles Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Christopher Segura, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism-University of Louisiana at Lafayette, c.segura@louisiana.edu
* Claire W. White, Stock Artists Alliance
* Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, cliff@cni.org
* Courtney Michael, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Daniel R. Dodge, Thomson Reuters
* Daphne DeLeon, Nevada State Library and Archives
* Eileen Fenton, Portico
* Elizabeth Falk, Idaho State Archives
* Eugene Mopsik, American Society of Media Photographers
* Felicity Dykas, University of Missouri Libraries, dykasf@missouri.edu
* Gayle Porter, Chicago State University Library, gporter@csu.edu
* Glenn Clatworthy, Public Broadcasting Service
* Gregory Sanford, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
* Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
* Ido Peled, Ex Libris Group
* Jason Gish, Testronic Labs, jason.gish@testroniclabs.com
* Jennifer King, Hampshire College Library, jking@hampshire.edu
* Jennifer Waxman, New York University
* Jessica Branco Colati, Northeast Document Conservation Center
* Jessika Drmacich, Williams College, jgd1@williams.edu
* Jimi Jones, Library of Congress
* Joe Weisenbach, MAM-A Inc.
* John McCoskey, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
* Josh Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Joy Perrin, Texas Tech University Libraries, joy.m.perrin@ttu.edu
* Karen Eberhart, Brown University, karen_eberhart@brown.edu
* Kate Boyd, University of South Carolina, boydkf@mailbox.sc.edu
* Kelcy Shepherd, Five Colleges, Inc. / University of Massachusetts Amherst, kshepherd@amherst.edu
* Margaret Maes, Legal Information Preservation Alliance
* Mark Abrahamson, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
* Mark Evans, Tessella Inc.
* Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
* Matthew Harris Glover, MS Department of Archives & History, mglover@mdah.state.ms.us
* Matt Peters, Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center
* Matt Veatch, Kansas State Historical Society, mveatch@kshs.org
* Meghan Banach Bergin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, mbanach@library.umass.edu
* Michael Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
* Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University
* Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace
* Michele Timmons, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
* Nancy North, University of Michigan
* Nicole Joniec, The Library Company of Philadelphia
* Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation
* Rachel L. Frick, Council on Library and Information Resources: Digital Library Federation
* Robert R. Downs, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University
* Shane Beers, University of Michigan
* Shawn Rounds, Minnesota Historical Society
* Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries
* Sue DuBois, Ripley Entertainment Inc., dubois@ripleys.com
* Tammy T Beasley, New Hanover County Register of Deeds, tbeasley@nhcgov.com
* Victoria Walch, Council of State Archives
* Wayne Shoaf, University of Southern California
* Yair Brama, Ex Libris Group

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NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members

2014-02-06T14:58:44Z

Kzwa: Updated active membership

'''Co-chairs:'''

* Co-chair: Andrea Goethals, Harvard University, andrea_goethals@harvard.edu
** I manage Harvard Library's digital preservation program and repository. I am interested in better exposing standards and best practices that can help manage preservation repositories on a practical level. I will probably focus on best practice and guidance documents related to preservation policies and practices.
* Co-chair: Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
** I manage software development projects in the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress where we build applications and services to support the digital content lifecycle.

'''Active members (In order of first names):'''
* Amy Kirchhoff, ITHAKA
* * I am the Portico and JSTOR Archive Service Product Manager. I have a particular interest in standards related to content packaging, metadata, and file formats.
* Carol Kussmann, University of Minnesota Libraries
* * Carolyn Campbell, Georgetown University Law Center Library, cms299@law.georgetown.edu
* Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
* Dina Sokolova, Columbia University
* Emily Frieda Shaw, University of Iowa Libraries
* John Spencer, BMS/Chace
* Karen Cariani, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Kate Murray, Library of Congress
* Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center Library, lp627@law.georgetown.edu
* Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
* Mariella Soprano, California Institute of Technology, mariella@caltech.edu
* Mary Vardigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
* Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
* Meg Philips, National Archives and Records Administration
* Michelle Paolillo, Cornell University Library,
* Midge Coates, Auburn University Libraries, COATEMI@auburn.edu
* Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries, nancymcg@mit.edu
* * I am Head of the Curation and Preservation Services department at MIT Libraries with primary responsibility for digital content and overall responsibility for content in all formats, and Director of the Digital Preservation Management Workshops(dpworkshop.org)
* Nick Sincaglia, NueMeta LLC, nsincaglia@nuemeta.com
* Paula De Stefano, New York University (NYU)
* Stephen P Davis, Columbia - Director, Columbia Libraries Digital Program, with overall responsibility for our Fedora-based digital preservation repository and program.
* Tracy Popp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Libraries
* Winston Atkins, Duke University Libraries, winston.atkins@duke.edu
* Vika Zafrin, Boston University Mugar Library, vzafrin@bu.edu

'''Alumni (In order of first names):'''
* Aaron Collie, Michigan State University
* Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
* Abbigail Swanton, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, abbigail.swanton@dpi.wi.gov
* Allison Munsell, Munsell Studio
* Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
* Andy Maltz, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
* Ben Fino-Radin, Rhizome
* Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California San Diego
* Charles Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Christopher Segura, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism-University of Louisiana at Lafayette, c.segura@louisiana.edu
* Claire W. White, Stock Artists Alliance
* Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information, cliff@cni.org
* Courtney Michael, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Daniel R. Dodge, Thomson Reuters
* Daphne DeLeon, Nevada State Library and Archives
* Eileen Fenton, Portico
* Elizabeth Falk, Idaho State Archives
* Eugene Mopsik, American Society of Media Photographers
* Felicity Dykas, University of Missouri Libraries, dykasf@missouri.edu
* Gayle Porter, Chicago State University Library, gporter@csu.edu
* Glenn Clatworthy, Public Broadcasting Service
* Gregory Sanford, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
* Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
* Ido Peled, Ex Libris Group
* Jason Gish, Testronic Labs, jason.gish@testroniclabs.com
* Jennifer King, Hampshire College Library, jking@hampshire.edu
* Jennifer Waxman, New York University
* Jessica Branco Colati, Northeast Document Conservation Center
* Jessika Drmacich, Williams College, jgd1@williams.edu
* Jimi Jones, Library of Congress
* Joe Weisenbach, MAM-A Inc.
* John McCoskey, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
* Josh Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Joy Perrin, Texas Tech University Libraries, joy.m.perrin@ttu.edu
* Karen Eberhart, Brown University, karen_eberhart@brown.edu
* Kate Boyd, University of South Carolina, boydkf@mailbox.sc.edu
* Kelcy Shepherd, Five Colleges, Inc. / University of Massachusetts Amherst, kshepherd@amherst.edu
* Margaret Maes, Legal Information Preservation Alliance
* Mark Abrahamson, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
* Mark Evans, Tessella Inc.
* Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
* Matthew Harris Glover, MS Department of Archives & History, mglover@mdah.state.ms.us
* Matt Peters, Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center
* Matt Veatch, Kansas State Historical Society, mveatch@kshs.org
* Meghan Banach Bergin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, mbanach@library.umass.edu
* Michael Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
* Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University
* Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace
* Michele Timmons, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
* Nancy North, University of Michigan
* Nicole Joniec, The Library Company of Philadelphia
* Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation
* Rachel L. Frick, Council on Library and Information Resources: Digital Library Federation
* Robert R. Downs, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University
* Shane Beers, University of Michigan
* Shawn Rounds, Minnesota Historical Society
* Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries
* Sue DuBois, Ripley Entertainment Inc., dubois@ripleys.com
* Tammy T Beasley, New Hanover County Register of Deeds, tbeasley@nhcgov.com
* Victoria Walch, Council of State Archives
* Wayne Shoaf, University of Southern California
* Yair Brama, Ex Libris Group

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NDSA:December 16, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-12-16T21:19:04Z

Kzwa:

== Participants on the Call ==
Carl Fleischhauer

John Spencer

Emily Shaw

Dina Sokolova

Kate Murray

Mary Vardigan

Michelle Paolillo

Midge Coates

Paula De Stefano

Vika Zafrin

Winston Atkins

Andrea Goethals

Butch Lazorchak

Meg Phillips

Kate Zwaard

== New Members ==

Paula De Stefano - NYU

== Project Status ==

Updates

Kate:
There will be a Signal blog post on the Wikipedia project summarizing what we accomplished and asking others if they’d like to contribute.

The Signal blog post for the Digital Preservation Staffing Survey should go out today. [In fact it went live immediately after our call: [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/12/just-released-staffing-for-effective-digital-preservation-an-ndsa-report/]

2014 Schedule:

Generally will meet on the 3rd Tuesday of every month, which just a few exceptions.

Jan 27th
Feb 24th
July 21st (Will try to schedule an in-person meetup in conjunction with the annual meeting instead of the regularly scheduled call.)

Next call is Jan 27, 2014.

== "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion (continued) ==

* '''Emily Shaw''' - digital preservation librarian at the University of Iowa library
** working on strategic planning, looking at fixity tools, and wrangling legacy collections. Looking to us for sanity

* '''Paula De Stefano''' - Head of Preservation Department, NYU
** Divided up the responsibilities, others most involved in content and repository development.
** Digitizing unique audio and video content.
** Producing master and access
** Broadcast WAV for audio, CD for access files.
** Storing on modified Dspace, using OAIS reference modoel, working toward TRAK compliance
** Interested in best practices for fixity checking.
** Would like to see a survey of how people are approaching file naming. They're using Archivists Tookliket reference number. Now migrating to ArchiveSpace, which will mean a new approach to file naming.
** There was a question about how they've modified Dspace.

== Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion ==

'''Discussion at Dec 16 meeting:'''

Suggestion to have the next meeting focus on video.
Paula would be glad to talk more about what they're doing.
John said major record labels are doing assessments of formats. Will be happy to report out when they actually issue a report on their findings.

There are clusters of people interested in a number of other topics that we could follow up on. Many people are interested in assessments and certifications. This group started a project on this last year; perhaps we should reinvigorate it.

There are also a number of people interested in SIP/ packaging. That group of people are mainly interested in information sharing across the group.

Kate asked if there was interest in discussion of any issues related to BagIt. Attendees did not report on any issues that needed discussion. Those who were familiar with it love it, and several people noted that just not enough people know about it.

Attendees should add their names to the list below if the notes don't reflect your institution's interests and activities.

* Repository infrastructure and tools
** Specific tools or platforms:
*** '''BagIt''' (LC, Georgetown Law, ITHAKA, Boston University)
*** Fedora (Duke)
** '''Understanding/surveying an institution's complex repository landscape''' (Cornell, Harvard)
** Software development (LC)
** '''Workflows''' (University of Minnesota, Columbia, Boston University)

* Assessments/audits/certifications
** '''Repository assessments and audits''' (Harvard, ITHAKA, ICPSR)
** Specific models:
*** '''Levels of Digital Preservation''' (Harvard, Cornell, ICPSR, Duke)
*** Data Seal of Approval (ICPSR)
*** TRAC/ISO (Duke, Boston University)

* Content and metadata packages
** '''Packaging forms/SIP components/metadata''' (MXF AS-07, METS)(LC, Harvard, Georgetown Law, Cornell, ITHAKA, NARA, Duke)
** Transfer between repositories (ITHAKA)
** Identifiers (ITHAKA)

* Techniques and practices
** '''Fixity checking''' (LC, Boston University, Duke)
** Digital forensics (Georgetown Law)
** Participating on standards bodies (LC)

* Formats
** '''Format assessment''' (LC, Harvard, Record labels?)
** '''Format guidelines/requirements''' (for creation, digitization, transfer)(Georgetown Law, Cornell, University of Minnesota, Harvard, NARA, Boston University, Duke)
** Particular genres and categories of formats
*** '''Video''' (LC, Harvard, Columbia, ICPSR, Duke, Boston University)
*** '''Born-digital''' (LC, Columbia, Boston University)
*** '''Email''' (LC, Columbia)
*** Databases (Columbia)
*** PDF/A (LC, Boston University)

* Other topics
** '''Engagement with "users"''' (curators, content creators) (LC, Cornell)
** '''Adequately resourcing programs''' (Cornell, Boston University)

NDSA:December 16, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-12-16T21:11:20Z

Kzwa:

== Participants on the Call ==
Carl Fleischhauer

John Spencer

Emily Shaw

Dina Sokolova

Kate Murray

Mary Vardigan

Michelle Paolillo

Midge Coates

Paula De Stefano

Vika Zafrin

Winston Atkins

Andrea Goethals

Butch Lazorchak

Meg Phillips

Kate Zwaard

== New Members ==

Paula De Stefano - NYU

== Project Status ==

Updates

Kate:
There will be a Signal blog post on the Wikipedia project summarizing what we accomplished and asking others if they’d like to contribute.

The Signal blog post for the Digital Preservation Staffing Survey should go out today. [In fact it went live immediately after our call: [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/12/just-released-staffing-for-effective-digital-preservation-an-ndsa-report/]

2014 Schedule:

Generally will meet on the 3rd Tuesday of every month, which just a few exceptions.

Jan 27th
Feb 24th
July 21st (Will try to schedule an in-person meetup in conjunction with the annual meeting instead of the regularly scheduled call.)

Next call is Jan 27, 2014.

== "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion (continued) ==

Emily is the new digital preservation librarian at the Universty of Iowa library. She's working on strategic planning, looking at fixity tools, and wrangling legacy collections. Looking to us for sanity

Paula De Stefano at NYU
Head of Preservation Department
Divided up the responsibilities, others most involved in content and repository development.

Digitizing unique audio and video content.
Producign master and access
Broadcast WAV for audio, CD for access files.

Storing on modified Dspace, using OAIS reference modoel, working toward TRAK compliance

Interested in best practices for fixity checking.

Would like to see a survey of how people are approaching file naming. They're using Archivists Tookliket reference number. Now migrating to ArchiveSpace, which will mean a new approach to file naming.

There was a question about how they've modified Dspace.

== Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion ==

'''Discussion at Dec 16 meeting:'''

Suggestion to have the next meeting focus on video.
Paula would be glad to talk more about what they're doing.
John said major record labels are doing assessments of formats. Will be happy to report out when they actually issue a report on their findings.

There are clusters of people interested in a number of other topics that we could follow up on. Many people are interested in assessments and certifications. This group started a project on this last year; perhaps we should reinvigorate it.

There are also a number of people interested in SIP/ packaging. That group of people are mainly interested in information sharing across the group.

Kate asked if there was interest in discussion of any issues related to BagIt. Attendees did not report on any issues that needed discussion. Those who were familiar with it love it, and several people noted that just not enough people know about it.

Attendees should add their names to the list below if the notes don't reflect your institution's interests and activities.

* Repository infrastructure and tools
** Specific tools or platforms:
*** '''BagIt''' (LC, Georgetown Law, ITHAKA, Boston University)
*** Fedora (Duke)
** '''Understanding/surveying an institution's complex repository landscape''' (Cornell, Harvard)
** Software development (LC)
** '''Workflows''' (University of Minnesota, Columbia, Boston University)

* Assessments/audits/certifications
** '''Repository assessments and audits''' (Harvard, ITHAKA, ICPSR)
** Specific models:
*** '''Levels of Digital Preservation''' (Harvard, Cornell, ICPSR, Duke)
*** Data Seal of Approval (ICPSR)
*** TRAC/ISO (Duke, Boston University)

* Content and metadata packages
** '''Packaging forms/SIP components/metadata''' (MXF AS-07, METS)(LC, Harvard, Georgetown Law, Cornell, ITHAKA, NARA, Duke)
** Transfer between repositories (ITHAKA)
** Identifiers (ITHAKA)

* Techniques and practices
** '''Fixity checking''' (LC, Boston University, Duke)
** Digital forensics (Georgetown Law)
** Participating on standards bodies (LC)

* Formats
** '''Format assessment''' (LC, Harvard, Record labels?)
** '''Format guidelines/requirements''' (for creation, digitization, transfer)(Georgetown Law, Cornell, University of Minnesota, Harvard, NARA, Boston University, Duke)
** Particular genres and categories of formats
*** '''Video''' (LC, Harvard, Columbia, ICPSR, Duke, Boston University)
*** '''Born-digital''' (LC, Columbia, Boston University)
*** '''Email''' (LC, Columbia)
*** Databases (Columbia)
*** PDF/A (LC, Boston University)

* Other topics
** '''Engagement with "users"''' (curators, content creators) (LC, Cornell)
** '''Adequately resourcing programs''' (Cornell, Boston University)

NDSA:December 16, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-12-16T18:05:49Z

Kzwa:

== Participants on the Call ==

== New Members ==

== Project Status ==

== "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion (continued) ==

== Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion ==

* Repository infrastructure and tools
** Specific tools or platforms:
*** '''BagIt''' (LC, Georgetown Law, ITHAKA)
*** Fedora (Duke)
** '''Understanding/surveying an institution's complex repository landscape''' (Cornell, Harvard)
** Software development (LC)
** '''Workflows''' (University of Minnesota, Columbia)

* Assessments/audits/certifications
** '''Repository assessments and audits''' (Harvard, ITHAKA, ICPSR)
** Specific models:
*** '''Levels of Digital Preservation''' (Harvard, Cornell, ICPSR)
*** Data Seal of Approval (ICPSR)
*** TRAC/ISO (Duke)

* Content and metadata packages
** '''Packaging forms/SIP components/metadata''' (MXF AS-07, METS)(LC, Harvard, Georgetown Law, Cornell, ITHAKA, NARA)
** Transfer between repositories (ITHAKA)
** Identifiers (ITHAKA)

* Techniques and practices
** Fixity checking (LC)
** Digital forensics (Georgetown Law)
** Participating on standards bodies (LC)

* Formats
** '''Format assessment''' (LC, Harvard, Record labels?)
** '''Format guidelines/requirements''' (for creation, digitization, transfer)(Georgetown Law, Cornell, University of Minnesota, Harvard, NARA)
** Particular genres and categories of formats
*** '''Video''' (LC, Harvard, Columbia, ICPSR, Duke)
*** '''Born-digital''' (LC, Columbia)
*** '''Email''' (LC, Columbia)
*** Databases (Columbia)
*** PDF/A (LC)

* Other topics
** '''Engagement with "users"''' (curators, content creators) (LC, Cornell)
** '''Adequately resourcing programs''' (Cornell, Boston University)

NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group

2013-12-03T16:25:04Z

Kzwa:

= Standards and Practices Working Group =

[[NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Charter ]] (December 10, 2010)

= Current Members =
A list of current members is posted here: [[NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members]].

= Statement of Purpose =

The Standards and Practices Working Group will work to facilitate a community-wide understanding of the role and benefit of standards in digital preservation and how to use them effectively to ensure durable and usable collections. The Group will also develop, recommend, promote, and disseminate information about effective methods for selecting, organizing, describing, managing, preserving and serving digital content, in collaboration with other individuals and organizations where appropriate.

= Current Scope of Work =

Working group members may initiate and engage in new work at any time by forming Action Teams focused on specific projects or tasks.

== Survey and document the digital preservation standards landscape ==
This is an ambitious and on-going project using Wikipedia to promote the use of digital preservation standards and best practices. The objectives are to:
* identify and describe '''existing''' digital preservation standards and best practices
* identify '''gaps''' in digital preservation standards and best practices coverage that could be addressed by this working group in collaboration with others
* sustain this activity by building a community of Wikipedians to join us in this activity

The categories of digital preservation standards and best practices we will focus on include: Content models, Content packaging, Content transfer, Digital preservation strategies and techniques, Digital preservation terms and concepts, File formats, Encodings, Metadata exchange, Metadata schemas, Repository architecture, Repository certification and trustworthiness, Repository operations, Repository policies

Status of activities and deliverables:

* creation of Digital Preservation "WikiProject" within Wikipedia as an umbrella for collaborating with others on this project -- '''COMPLETE 6/2012'''
* redevelop the current Wikipedia "Digital Preservation" page so that it can serve as an appropriate launch page to more detailed information about standards and best practices -- '''IN PROGRESS, 11/2012-'''

* create / update pages describing current standards and best practices in the field of digital preservation
* consult with others involved in digital preservation to encourage their input and contributions to the effort
* report back to the NDSA steering committee with updates and proposals as to how to continue this effort into the future

Links related to this project:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Digital_Preservation Digital Preservation WikiProject Page]
* [[NDSA:Existing DP-Related Wikipedia Pages]]
* [[NDSA:Survey Template]]
* [[NDSA:Sources of Information about DP Standards and Best Practices]]
* [[NDSA:Categories and Action Teams]] (sign up for an action team here)
* [[NDSA:Parking Spot for other DP-related Standards and Best Practices]]

== Survey of digital preservation staffing ==

* [[NDSA:Staffing survey planning page]]

== Survey on adoption of digital preservation standards and best practices ==

* [[NDSA:Standards survey planning page]]

== Related action team on distributed digital preservation ==

* [[NDSA:DDP_OAIS_Frameworks | Describing a Framework for Applying OAIS to Distributed Digital Preservation]]

== Items related to the exploration of the challenges of preserving PDFs, especially PDF/A documents, including PDF/A-3 ==

* [[NDSA:PDF Exploration]]

One of the great strengths of PDF, including the recent PDF/A-3 standard, is its ability to contain a variety of sometimes complex digital objects within a single file. Long term preservation of these files, however, can be problematic because current digital preservation tools are not able to consistently identify the existence of the embedded content nor identify its format. The NDSA Standards sub group is interested in exploring the boundaries of applicability for PDF in preservation environments, especially as a carrier of complex formats such as audio, video and geospatial information.

The interest in this project grew out of a Signal blog post on PDF/A-3 by Butch Lazorchak (LOC) about embedded files in PDF/A (http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/all-in-embedded-files-in-pdfa/) as well as discussions between NARA and depositing agencies who are starting to use PDF/A-3 as a de facto normalization wrapper format to contain many media types including audio and video. Caroline Arms (LOC) has already produced a helpful background document to kick start this work.

== TDR Self-assessment and Audit: Understanding options for addressing standards and requirements ==


* [[NDSA:TDR Self-assessment and Audit: Understanding Options for Addressing Standards and Requirements| Project Charter]]

With the release of ISO 16363 that specifies the requirements for the audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories, the digital community would benefit from a review of current options for organizations to demonstrate comformance and from ongoing monitoring as options emerge and evolve.

= Brainstorming =

* [[NDSA:New_Work | Brainstorming new project ideas (Nov, 2012)]]
* [[NDSA:National_Agenda_Standards_Brainstorm | Ideas for the 2014 National Agenda]]

= Resources =

* [[NDSA:Activity_Charter_Template | Template for describing new projects]]
* NDSA Standards Working Group Listserv Archives (login required): http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?A0=NDSA-STANDARDS&X=25F57E4CACD543490D&Y

= Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas =
* [[NDSA:December 16, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 18, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:September 16, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:August 19, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:June 17, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:May 20, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* (April 2013 - no call)
* [[NDSA:March 18, 2013 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:February 25, 2013 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:January 28, 2013 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:December 17, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 26, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:October 24, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes|October 24, 2012 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:August 20, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:June 18, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:May 16, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:April 18, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:March 13, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:February 22, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:January 17, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:June 6, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:May 2, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:April 4, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:Digital Preservation Metadata Action Team -- March 15, 2011]]
* [[NDSA:March 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:February 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:January 12, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:December 6, 2010 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 17, 2010 Standards Working Group Notes]]

= Workshops =
* I can haz standards workshop, NDIPP 2011 [[NDSA:I can haz standards workshop notes]]

NDSA:December 16, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-12-03T16:24:14Z

Kzwa: Created page with '== New Members == == Project Status == == "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion (continued) =='

== New Members ==

== Project Status ==

== "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion (continued) ==

NDSA:November 18, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-11-21T21:03:25Z

Kzwa:

== New Members ==
* Michelle Paolillo -- Cornell University Library
* Vika Zafrin -- Boston University, Mugar Library
* Carolyn Campbell -- Georgetown Law Library
* Carol Kussman -- first meeting with University of Minnesota

== Project Status ==
* The TRAC review tool is now available at: https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Internal_audit_tool - the download file contains all of the files needed in a standalone instance of Drupal. Now that that's done, we can focus on building up the wiki pages for the activities of the Self-assessment and Audit project.
* PDF/A paper draft sent out on the listserv -- please send comments to Butch Lazorchak (wlaz@loc.gov) by December 2nd.

== "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion ==

* '''Kate Zwaard''', Library of Congress: I’m working on a few software development projects right now. The one that’s probably the most relevant here is a project I manage to help LC staff accession, preserve, and manage digital collections. We also develop Bagger and the BagIt Library. Aside from the standards and best practices of the software development world (development methodologies, code conventions, etc), the best practices we are interested in are related to preservation/administrative metadata, fixity, and provenance. One of our biggest challenges (and joys) comes from serving a diverse user base – our colleagues in the Law Library have different interests, requirements, and needs than our colleagues in the American Folklife Center or in the Manuscript division, for example. For sanity checks, we rely on our colleagues in the NDSA and in the software development community. More about our group here: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/yes-the-library-of-congress-develops-lots-of-software-tools/

* '''Andrea Goethals''', Harvard Library: I'm working on:
** Adding support for video to our preservation repository
*** Using various format sustainability criteria to decide on video formats, could use agreement on video formats and metadata schemas
** Finishing up a large repository migration - now focused on the metadata migration & user adoption
*** In the software development portion of the project, used best practices on packaging metadata, technical metadata schemas, hooks into format registries
** A road map for new Digital preservation services
*** Used repository assessment models including the levels of digital preservation
** NDSR Boston project - testing the residency model piloted by LC & IMLS is Washington DC
*** Using existing curricula like DPOE
For sanity I turn to the digital preservation community writ large including the NDSA and the IIPC preservation working group.

* '''Kate Murray''', Library of Congress: I'm working on:
** working on the MXF AS-07 application specification definition which is geared for archiving and preservation. This includes metadata standards and has led me to the SMPTE Core Metadata effort.
** documenting case histories about working with born digital video (through the FADGI AV Working Group). We hope this ''eventually'' extends to recommended practices for file creation.
** FADGI is also about to publish a matrix comparing codecs and wrappers for reformatted video
** I'm also working on documenting email formats for the Sustainability of Digital Formats website

* '''Leah Prescott and Carolyn Campbell''' - Georgetown University Law Library is:
** We are just at the beginning of implementing a production-level digitization program so our standards and practices are primarily centered around that activity - making sure that we are following best practices and primarily using the FADGI guidelines. Books, images, audio, video, etc.
** We are also in the process of vetting Digital Asset Management systems (along with main campus) and have started discussing preservation requirements in conjunction with that (although the system itself may not be a preservation environment)
** Will soon be implementing a BagIt process to create a basic preservation file structure on a server - and implementing BagIt validation on a periodic basis.
** Working on strategies to implement METS for both display and preservation
** Beginning to work with digital forensics for obsolete media
** Continuing to lead the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group to deal with legal link rot

* '''Michelle Paolillo''' - Cornell University; preservation related projects
** We are in a fledgling state with our preservation repository, the Cornell University Library Archival Repository (CULAR). I am the service manager and business owner with regards to repository development. CULAR is governed by a steering committee which I also chair. Standards and Best practices I currently appeal to:
*** NDSA Levels of preservation - My steering committee and I are especially grateful to have a framework to use when discussing possible development, and way to keep the various facets of development in synch.
*** My metadata specialist, Jason Kovari - helps evaluate which schema(s) may be especially helpful in specific situations, and helps evaluate how much description we should minimally require. (In general, I emphasize the role of metadata frequently, since even a decade or two down the road, none of us will be here to remember or explain anything.)
*** I search the web for many terms related to preservation, to get a better idea of what has been tried, and (hopefully) to what success. It is great to learn that this group has been leveraging Wikipedia for basic knowledge.
*** Specific challenge: often curators have little idea as to how to get their collections ready for deposit (this includes appropriate description, metadata creation, structuring, weeding, etc.) I always attempt to lower barriers, but frequently encounter reluctance to create or alter workflows in ways that would integrate preservation into the lifecycle of the object. I suspect preservation is seen as an add-on. I would love ideas and best practices for developing the partnerships that would increase engagement.
** Cornell has also recently created an executive level group for preservation called the Repository Executive Committee. Cornell has many repositories for digital assets in many repositories, and the charge before the committee includes a survey of our current repository landscape, with an eye towards simplifying the architectural diversity. I plan to be a vigorous voice on that committee for preservation. Some challenges:
*** The architectures of the various repositories tend to be optimized for whatever content type they specialize in.
*** Several architectures in use are aging out, or have already aged out. There will be migrations in our future.
*** Not all repositories have preservation in mind; many are delivery centered.
*** I am open to any sanity checks or standards/best practices that are available that would help with this effort.

* '''Amy Kirchhoff'''

* '''Butch Lazorchak'''

* '''Carol Kussmann'''

* '''Dina Sokolova'''

* '''Mary Vardigan'''

* '''Meg Phillips'''

* '''Vika Zafrin'''

* '''Winston Atkins'''

* '''John Spencer'''

NDSA:November 18, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-11-07T19:19:44Z

Kzwa: kicking it off

== "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion ==

* What are you working on?
* What standards/best practices do you rely on for this work?
* What standards/best practices could you use?
* Where do you go for sanity checks?

----
* '''Kate Zwaard''', Library of Congress: I’m working on a few software development projects right now. The one that’s probably the most relevant here is a project I manage to help LC staff accession, preserve, and manage digital collections. We also develop Bagger and the BagIt Library. Aside from the standards and best practices of the software development world (development methodologies, code conventions, etc), the best practices we are interested in are related to preservation/administrative metadata, fixity, and provenance. One of our biggest challenges (and joys) comes from serving a diverse user base – our colleagues in the Law Library have different interests, requirements, and needs than our colleagues in the American Folklife Center or in the Manuscript division, for example. For sanity checks, we rely on our colleagues in the NDSA and in the software development community. More about our group here: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/yes-the-library-of-congress-develops-lots-of-software-tools/

NDSA:August 19, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-08-08T15:21:29Z

Kzwa:

== Agenda ==

1. New member introduction

2. Update on projects
a. Audit/Certifications (5 minutes)
b. Staffing survey (5 minutes)
i. Report team
ii. Data archiving team
c. PDF/A-3 (5 minutes)

3. New project ideas?

4. Anything else?

5. Next call, September 16th 1 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)

== Call info ==
* https://issevents.webex.com/issevents/j.php?ED=179983787&UID=-1&PW=NMmEzMGMxZjAx&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
* Password: 2Preserve
* Phone number: 1-866-469-3239
* Access code: 763 713 482

NDSA:August 19, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

2013-08-08T15:19:21Z

Kzwa: agenda

== Agenda ==

1. New member introduction

2. Update on projects
a. Audit/Certifications (5 minutes)
b. Staffing survey (5 minutes)
i. Report team
ii. Data archiving team
c. PDF/A-3 (5 minutes)

3. New project ideas?

4. Anything else?

5. Next call, September 16th 1 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)

== Call info ==
https://issevents.webex.com/issevents/j.php?ED=179983787&UID=-1&PW=NMmEzMGMxZjAx&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
Password: 2Preserve
Phone number: 1-866-469-3239
Access code: 763 713 482

NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group

2013-08-08T15:06:39Z

Kzwa: /* Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas */

= Standards and Practices Working Group =

[[NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Charter ]] (December 10, 2010)

= Current Members =
A list of current members is posted here: [[NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members]].

= Statement of Purpose =

The Standards and Practices Working Group will work to facilitate a community-wide understanding of the role and benefit of standards in digital preservation and how to use them effectively to ensure durable and usable collections. The Group will also develop, recommend, promote, and disseminate information about effective methods for selecting, organizing, describing, managing, preserving and serving digital content, in collaboration with other individuals and organizations where appropriate.

= Current Scope of Work =

Working group members may initiate and engage in new work at any time by forming Action Teams focused on specific projects or tasks.

== Survey and document the digital preservation standards landscape ==
This is an ambitious and on-going project using Wikipedia to promote the use of digital preservation standards and best practices. The objectives are to:
* identify and describe '''existing''' digital preservation standards and best practices
* identify '''gaps''' in digital preservation standards and best practices coverage that could be addressed by this working group in collaboration with others
* sustain this activity by building a community of Wikipedians to join us in this activity

The categories of digital preservation standards and best practices we will focus on include: Content models, Content packaging, Content transfer, Digital preservation strategies and techniques, Digital preservation terms and concepts, File formats, Encodings, Metadata exchange, Metadata schemas, Repository architecture, Repository certification and trustworthiness, Repository operations, Repository policies

Status of activities and deliverables:

* creation of Digital Preservation "WikiProject" within Wikipedia as an umbrella for collaborating with others on this project -- '''COMPLETE 6/2012'''
* redevelop the current Wikipedia "Digital Preservation" page so that it can serve as an appropriate launch page to more detailed information about standards and best practices -- '''IN PROGRESS, 11/2012-'''

* create / update pages describing current standards and best practices in the field of digital preservation
* consult with others involved in digital preservation to encourage their input and contributions to the effort
* report back to the NDSA steering committee with updates and proposals as to how to continue this effort into the future

Links related to this project:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Digital_Preservation Digital Preservation WikiProject Page]
* [[NDSA:Existing DP-Related Wikipedia Pages]]
* [[NDSA:Survey Template]]
* [[NDSA:Sources of Information about DP Standards and Best Practices]]
* [[NDSA:Categories and Action Teams]] (sign up for an action team here)
* [[NDSA:Parking Spot for other DP-related Standards and Best Practices]]

== Survey of digital preservation staffing ==

* [[NDSA:Staffing survey planning page]]

== Survey on adoption of digital preservation standards and best practices ==

* [[NDSA:Standards survey planning page]]

== Related action team on distributed digital preservation ==

* [[NDSA:DDP_OAIS_Frameworks | Describing a Framework for Applying OAIS to Distributed Digital Preservation]]

== Items related to the exploration of the challenges of preserving PDFs, especially PDF/A documents, including PDF/A-3 ==

* [[NDSA:PDF Exploration]]

One of the great strengths of PDF, including the recent PDF/A-3 standard, is its ability to contain a variety of sometimes complex digital objects within a single file. Long term preservation of these files, however, can be problematic because current digital preservation tools are not able to consistently identify the existence of the embedded content nor identify its format. The NDSA Standards sub group is interested in exploring the boundaries of applicability for PDF in preservation environments, especially as a carrier of complex formats such as audio, video and geospatial information.

The interest in this project grew out of a Signal blog post on PDF/A-3 by Butch Lazorchak (LOC) about embedded files in PDF/A (http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/all-in-embedded-files-in-pdfa/) as well as discussions between NARA and depositing agencies who are starting to use PDF/A-3 as a de facto normalization wrapper format to contain many media types including audio and video. Caroline Arms (LOC) has already produced a helpful background document to kick start this work.

== TDR Self-assessment and Audit: Understanding options for addressing standards and requirements ==


* [[NDSA:TDR Self-assessment and Audit: Understanding Options for Addressing Standards and Requirements| Project Charter]]

With the release of ISO 16363 that specifies the requirements for the audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories, the digital community would benefit from a review of current options for organizations to demonstrate comformance and from ongoing monitoring as options emerge and evolve.

= Brainstorming =

* [[NDSA:New_Work | Brainstorming new project ideas (Nov, 2012)]]
* [[NDSA:National_Agenda_Standards_Brainstorm | Ideas for the 2014 National Agenda]]

= Resources =

* [[NDSA:Activity_Charter_Template | Template for describing new projects]]
* NDSA Standards Working Group Listserv Archives (login required): http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?A0=NDSA-STANDARDS&X=25F57E4CACD543490D&Y

= Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas =
* [[NDSA:August 19, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:June 17, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:May 20, 2013 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* (April 2013 - no call)
* [[NDSA:March 18, 2013 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:February 25, 2013 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:January 28, 2013 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:December 17, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 26, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:October 24, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes|October 24, 2012 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:August 20, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:June 18, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:May 16, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:April 18, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:March 13, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:February 22, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:January 17, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:June 6, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:May 2, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:April 4, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:Digital Preservation Metadata Action Team -- March 15, 2011]]
* [[NDSA:March 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:February 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:January 12, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:December 6, 2010 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 17, 2010 Standards Working Group Notes]]

= Workshops =
* I can haz standards workshop, NDIPP 2011 [[NDSA:I can haz standards workshop notes]]

NDSA:Meeting Schedule

2013-03-18T17:52:07Z

Kzwa: wrong date in april

The NDSA Standards and Best Practices working group meets on the 3rd Monday of every month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Meeting dates are below.

* To join the online meeting, go to https://issevents.webex.com/issevents/j.php?ED=179983787&
* To join the audio conference only, call 1-866-469-3239 (toll-free) or 1-650-429-3300 (toll), using access code 763 713 482.

== 2013 Meeting Dates ==
* January 28
* February 25
* March 18
* April 15
* May 20
* June 17
* July 15
* August 19
* September 16
* October 21
* November 18
* December 16

NDSA:Meeting Schedule

2013-03-12T21:33:19Z

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The NDSA Standards and Best Practices working group meets on the 3rd Monday of every month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Meeting dates are below.

* To join the online meeting, go to https://issevents.webex.com/issevents/j.php?ED=179983787&
* To join the audio conference only, call 1-866-469-3239 (toll-free) or 1-650-429-3300 (toll), using access code 763 713 482.

== 2013 Meeting Dates ==
* January 28
* February 25
* March 18
* April 22
* May 20
* June 17
* July 15
* August 19
* September 16
* October 21
* November 18
* December 16

NDSA:National Agenda Standards Brainstorm

2013-02-11T17:45:38Z

Kzwa:

Each Working Group and individual members are being asked to contribute ideas for the agenda during the next few months. In March, the Joint Leadership Team will meet to discuss and draft, with a rollout at the summer meeting.

See notes from a Content WG meeting: http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=January_2013
and the National Agenda Outline http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=2014_National_Agenda_Outline

What are the key challenges and opportunities in the digital preservation space for the year ahead? More specifically:

'''What are the key gaps that should be addressed in the coming year, in ''Organizational roles, policies and practices''?'''

Preservation happens through the work of individuals and institutions. Just as it is critical to refine and develop infrastructure and basic research it is similarly critical to refine and develop workflows, practices, roles, and responsibilities both inside institutions and within networks of institutions to ensure long term access to digital content.
* Sustainable budgetary models for long-term preservation
* Articulating the compendium of best practices
* Continuum of policies ranging from high-level organizational policies to lower-level rules
* Role of national efforts, e.g. DPN, Academic Preservation Trust
* Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives (staffing survey_)

'''What are the emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the digital preservation community related to trends in ''digital content''?'''
* Web archiving
* Research data
* Big data
* Compound, complex documents
* Preservation of social media

'''What are the key gaps that should be addressed in the coming year, in ''Research''?'''
* ?
(All of these could be framed as research questions but maybe we can identify here some of the high priority research problems.)

'''What are the key gaps that should be addressed in the coming year, in ''Infrastructure''?'''
* Development of commercial products for digital preservation; creating and maintaining relationships with the private sector
* Consolidating and keeping alive the palette of tools we need to do our work of digital preservation, and for rendering in the future
* Common packaging (general and specialized)
** In a perfect world, record-keeping systems in federal agencies would all know how to create a package, so that all sorts of systems become interoperable; would achieve huge economies for the government
* Use and access – tends to be divorced from preservation, but needs to be more integrated
** Preservation is ensuring access over time
** Need to involve researchers more
** “Archlive” – shouldn’t be places of storage, but of dynamic activities
** Have yet to pursue the other end of the OAIS model – the consumer archive
** New demands for API and federated access to our content coming out of initiatives like DPLA, edX, jdarchive

'''Other things we want to say?'''
* One approach to coming up with this agenda is to start by looking back to what we did last year, and then asking ourselves what's different this year?

----
Text of background document is below and available at this link, with related meeting minutes:
www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/c/c0/2014NationalAgendaforDigitalStewardship.doc

== 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship ==

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is in a unique position to identify and communicate the challenges, opportunities, and priorities for digital preservation activities in the United States. '''The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship identifies emerging trends, opportunities, and gaps in national digital stewardship activity. The agenda is intended to be of use to NDSA members and to the digital preservation community as a whole. This agenda is not focused on assigning activities for the NDSA working groups. Rather, the agenda it is an evaluation of the year’s challenges and emerging issues that would inform digital preservation work across the nation.'''

The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship is authored by the NDSA joint leadership group. This group is made up of the Coordinating Committee members, the Working Group co-chairs, and the NDSA facilitator. The 2014 Agenda will be authored by:
* Micah Altman
* Jefferson Bailey
* Karen Cariani
* Jim Corridan
* Blane Dessy
* Michelle Gallinger
* Andrea Goethals
* Abbie Grotke
* Cathy Hartman
* Butch Lazorchak
* Jane Mandelbaum
* Carol Minton-Morris
* Trevor Owens
* Meg Phillips
* Amy Rudersdorf
* John Spencer
* Helen Tibbo
* Tyler Walters
* Kate Wittenberg
* Kate Zwaard

This is not intended to be an extensive report out on a research activity; it is a succinct communication piece (approximately 5 pages). '''The agenda is an executive-level list of the challenges and opportunities in the digital preservation space for the year ahead.''' Short paragraphs may add further detail and substance.

Logistics:
* Co-chairs will request ideas to be nominated by the working groups
* Michelle Gallinger will act as document compiler and editor.
* Topics detailed in the document may be repeated year to year or may change entirely.

Timeline:
January 2013
* Request for ideas, topics, and issues goes out to NDSA_ALL
* Working Groups discuss possible ideas to include
March 26-27, 2013
* Determine topics and trends for inclusion
* Assign writing of sections
May 2013
* Complete draft of document
* Circulate draft to NDSA_ALL for comment
June 2013
* Incorporate comments into final version
July 23-25, 2013
* Present at Digital Preservation 2013 conference
July 2013
* Circulate via www.digitalpreservation.gov and newsletter

Draft Outline
# Introduction
## Description the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
### What the document is
#### inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work
#### observations of the joint leadership group
#### evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year
### What the document is not intended to be
#### a directive to working groups
#### prescriptive
#### Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.
### Hoped for impact
## Description of the NDSA and its goals
### How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals
## Intended audience
### NDSA members
#### inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans
### Wider digital preservation community
## Authored by the joint leadership group
# Sections topics
## Trends in Digital Content
## Research Priorities
## Infrastructure Development
## Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
# Conclusion
## Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda
## Opportunity to comment via ndsa@loc.gov
## Join the conversation about key issues and topics via the www.digitalpreservation.gov blog, The Signal

Inspiration and Examples:
New Media Consortium’s Horizon report: http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports

CNI program plan: http://www.cni.org/program/program-plan-archive/2011-2012/

NASCIO: http://www.nascio.org/publications/documents/NASCIO-Call-to-Action-The-Necessity-for-Maturing-Identity-and-Access-Management-in-State-Government.pdf

DPC Prospectus: http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/not-so-new/898-dpc-prospectus-2012-13-a-full-programme-of-events-and-publications

NDSA:National Agenda Standards Brainstorm

2013-02-11T17:44:16Z

Kzwa:

Each Working Group and individual members are being asked to contribute ideas for the agenda during the next few months. In March, the Joint Leadership Team will meet to discuss and draft, with a rollout at the summer meeting. See notes from a Content WG meeting: http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=January_2013

What are the key challenges and opportunities in the digital preservation space for the year ahead? More specifically:

'''What are the emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the digital preservation community related to trends in ''digital content''?'''
* Web archiving
* Research data
* Big data
* Compound, complex documents
* Preservation of social media

'''What are the key gaps that should be addressed in the coming year, in ''Research''?'''
* ?
(All of these could be framed as research questions but maybe we can identify here some of the high priority research problems.)

'''What are the key gaps that should be addressed in the coming year, in ''Infrastructure''?'''
* Development of commercial products for digital preservation; creating and maintaining relationships with the private sector
* Consolidating and keeping alive the palette of tools we need to do our work of digital preservation, and for rendering in the future
* Common packaging (general and specialized)
** In a perfect world, record-keeping systems in federal agencies would all know how to create a package, so that all sorts of systems become interoperable; would achieve huge economies for the government
* Use and access – tends to be divorced from preservation, but needs to be more integrated
** Preservation is ensuring access over time
** Need to involve researchers more
** “Archlive” – shouldn’t be places of storage, but of dynamic activities
** Have yet to pursue the other end of the OAIS model – the consumer archive
** New demands for API and federated access to our content coming out of initiatives like DPLA, edX, jdarchive

'''What are the key gaps that should be addressed in the coming year, in ''Organizational roles, policies and practices''?'''

Preservation happens through the work of individuals and institutions. Just as it is critical to refine and develop infrastructure and basic research it is similarly critical to refine and develop workflows, practices, roles, and responsibilities both inside institutions and within networks of institutions to ensure long term access to digital content.
* Sustainable budgetary models for long-term preservation
* Articulating the compendium of best practices
* Continuum of policies ranging from high-level organizational policies to lower-level rules
* Role of national efforts, e.g. DPN, Academic Preservation Trust
* Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives (staffing survey_)

'''Other things we want to say?'''
* One approach to coming up with this agenda is to start by looking back to what we did last year, and then asking ourselves what's different this year?

----
Text of background document is below and available at this link, with related meeting minutes:
www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/c/c0/2014NationalAgendaforDigitalStewardship.doc

== 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship ==

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is in a unique position to identify and communicate the challenges, opportunities, and priorities for digital preservation activities in the United States. '''The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship identifies emerging trends, opportunities, and gaps in national digital stewardship activity. The agenda is intended to be of use to NDSA members and to the digital preservation community as a whole. This agenda is not focused on assigning activities for the NDSA working groups. Rather, the agenda it is an evaluation of the year’s challenges and emerging issues that would inform digital preservation work across the nation.'''

The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship is authored by the NDSA joint leadership group. This group is made up of the Coordinating Committee members, the Working Group co-chairs, and the NDSA facilitator. The 2014 Agenda will be authored by:
* Micah Altman
* Jefferson Bailey
* Karen Cariani
* Jim Corridan
* Blane Dessy
* Michelle Gallinger
* Andrea Goethals
* Abbie Grotke
* Cathy Hartman
* Butch Lazorchak
* Jane Mandelbaum
* Carol Minton-Morris
* Trevor Owens
* Meg Phillips
* Amy Rudersdorf
* John Spencer
* Helen Tibbo
* Tyler Walters
* Kate Wittenberg
* Kate Zwaard

This is not intended to be an extensive report out on a research activity; it is a succinct communication piece (approximately 5 pages). '''The agenda is an executive-level list of the challenges and opportunities in the digital preservation space for the year ahead.''' Short paragraphs may add further detail and substance.

Logistics:
* Co-chairs will request ideas to be nominated by the working groups
* Michelle Gallinger will act as document compiler and editor.
* Topics detailed in the document may be repeated year to year or may change entirely.

Timeline:
January 2013
* Request for ideas, topics, and issues goes out to NDSA_ALL
* Working Groups discuss possible ideas to include
March 26-27, 2013
* Determine topics and trends for inclusion
* Assign writing of sections
May 2013
* Complete draft of document
* Circulate draft to NDSA_ALL for comment
June 2013
* Incorporate comments into final version
July 23-25, 2013
* Present at Digital Preservation 2013 conference
July 2013
* Circulate via www.digitalpreservation.gov and newsletter

Draft Outline
# Introduction
## Description the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
### What the document is
#### inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work
#### observations of the joint leadership group
#### evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year
### What the document is not intended to be
#### a directive to working groups
#### prescriptive
#### Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.
### Hoped for impact
## Description of the NDSA and its goals
### How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals
## Intended audience
### NDSA members
#### inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans
### Wider digital preservation community
## Authored by the joint leadership group
# Sections topics
## Trends in Digital Content
## Research Priorities
## Infrastructure Development
## Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
# Conclusion
## Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda
## Opportunity to comment via ndsa@loc.gov
## Join the conversation about key issues and topics via the www.digitalpreservation.gov blog, The Signal

Inspiration and Examples:
New Media Consortium’s Horizon report: http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports

CNI program plan: http://www.cni.org/program/program-plan-archive/2011-2012/

NASCIO: http://www.nascio.org/publications/documents/NASCIO-Call-to-Action-The-Necessity-for-Maturing-Identity-and-Access-Management-in-State-Government.pdf

DPC Prospectus: http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/not-so-new/898-dpc-prospectus-2012-13-a-full-programme-of-events-and-publications

NDSA:National Agenda Standards Brainstorm

2013-01-28T17:01:02Z

Kzwa:

NDSA:National Agenda Standards Brainstorm

2013-01-23T22:11:53Z

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NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group

2012-12-13T15:15:37Z

Kzwa: 11-26-12 notes

== Standards and Practices Working Group ==

[[NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Charter ]] (December 10, 2010)

== Current Members ==
A list of current members is posted here: [[NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members]].

== Statement of Purpose ==

The Standards and Practices Working Group will work to facilitate a community-wide understanding of the role and benefit of standards in digital preservation and how to use them effectively to ensure durable and usable collections. The Group will also develop, recommend, promote, and disseminate information about effective methods for selecting, organizing, describing, managing, preserving and serving digital content, in collaboration with other individuals and organizations where appropriate.

== Current Scope of Work ==

Working group members may initiate and engage in new work at any time by forming Action Teams focused on specific projects or tasks.

===1. Survey and document the digital preservation standards landscape===
This is an ambitious and on-going project using Wikipedia to promote the use of digital preservation standards and best practices. The objectives are to:
* identify and describe '''existing''' digital preservation standards and best practices
* identify '''gaps''' in digital preservation standards and best practices coverage that could be addressed by this working group in collaboration with others
* sustain this activity by building a community of Wikipedians to join us in this activity

The categories of digital preservation standards and best practices we will focus on include: Content models, Content packaging, Content transfer, Digital preservation strategies and techniques, Digital preservation terms and concepts, File formats, Encodings, Metadata exchange, Metadata schemas, Repository architecture, Repository certification and trustworthiness, Repository operations, Repository policies

Status of activities and deliverables:

* creation of Digital Preservation "WikiProject" within Wikipedia as an umbrella for collaborating with others on this project -- '''COMPLETE 6/2012'''
* redevelop the current Wikipedia "Digital Preservation" page so that it can serve as an appropriate launch page to more detailed information about standards and best practices -- '''IN PROGRESS, 11/2012-'''

* create / update pages describing current standards and best practices in the field of digital preservation
* consult with others involved in digital preservation to encourage their input and contributions to the effort
* report back to the NDSA steering committee with updates and proposals as to how to continue this effort into the future

Links related to this project:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Digital_Preservation Digital Preservation WikiProject Page]
* [[NDSA:Existing DP-Related Wikipedia Pages]]
* [[NDSA:Survey Template]]
* [[NDSA:Sources of Information about DP Standards and Best Practices]]
* [[NDSA:Categories and Action Teams]] (sign up for an action team here)
* [[NDSA:Parking Spot for other DP-related Standards and Best Practices]]

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===2. Survey of digital preservation staffing===

* [[NDSA:Staffing survey planning page]]

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===3. Survey on adoption of digital preservation standards and best practices===

* [[NDSA:Standards survey planning page]]

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===4. Related action team on distributed digital preservation===

* [[NDSA:DDP_OAIS_Frameworks | Describing a Framework for Applying OAIS to Distributed Digital Preservation]]

== Ideas for New Work ==

* [[NDSA:New_Work | Brainstorming new project ideas (Nov, 2012)]]

PDF Exploration

One of the great strengths of PDF, including the recent PDF/A-3 standard, is its ability to contain a variety of sometimes complex digital objects within a single file. Long term preservation of these files, however, can be problematic because current digital preservation tools are not able to consistently identify the existence of the embedded content nor identify its format. The NDSA Standards sub group is interested in exploring the boundaries of applicability for PDF in preservation environments, especially as a carrier of complex formats such as audio, video and geospatial information.

The interest in this project grew out of a Signal blog post on PDF/A-3 by Butch Lazorchak (LOC) about embedded files in PDF/A (http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/all-in-embedded-files-in-pdfa/) as well as discussions between NARA and depositing agencies who are starting to use PDF/A-3 as a de facto normalization wrapper format to contain many media types including audio and video. Caroline Arms (LOC) has already produced a helpful background document to kick start this work.

== Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas==

* [[NDSA:November 26, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:October 24, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes|October 24, 2012 Standards & Practices Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:August 20, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:June 18, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:May 16, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:April 18, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:March 13, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:February 22, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:January 17, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:June 6, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:May 2, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:April 4, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:Digital Preservation Metadata Action Team -- March 15, 2011]]
* [[NDSA:March 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:February 7, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:January 12, 2011 Standards Working Group Notes and Agenda]]
* [[NDSA:December 6, 2010 Standards Working Group Notes]]
* [[NDSA:November 17, 2010 Standards Working Group Notes]]

== NDSA Standards Working Group Listserv Archives==

The archives of the Standards Working Group Listserv can be found here (login will be required): http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?A0=NDSA-STANDARDS&X=25F57E4CACD543490D&Y

== Workshops ==
* I can haz standards workshop, NDIPP 2011 [[NDSA:I can haz standards workshop notes]]

== Deprecated pages kept for historical reasons ==
* [[NDSA:2011 NDIIPP Partners' Meeting Attendees]]
* NDSA Standards Working Group Google Group Space (we never ended up using this): http://groups.google.com/group/ndsa-standards-working-group?hl=en

NDSA:November 26, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes

2012-11-29T15:13:17Z

Kzwa:

== WebEx meeting notes, November 26, 2012 ==

Attending: Andrea Goethals, Kate Zwaard (note taker), Meg Philips, Kate Murray, Nancy McGovern, John Spencer, Mary Vardigan, Carol Kussman, Dina Sokolova, Emily Shaw, Aarom Trehub, Butch Lazorchak, Carl Fleishhauer, Amy Kirchhoff
'''(Apologies if I have left anyone out, please feel free to add your name.)'''

=== Opening ===
2 new members introduced themselves:
* Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
* Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries

=== Staffing Survey ===
* A reminder to please contribute to the lessons learned while they're still fresh
** http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Staffing_survey_planning_page
* How do we expand participation, especially to commercial institutions and institutions with large content collections
* The instructions for only one respondent per institution may have made it difficult for large institutions to participate (i.e., who is responsible for responding)
** Perhaps solicit individually. Get the list of the NDSA representative for each institution, enlist their help.
* Please consider joining the publish team (a great way to get a publication on your resume) or the archive team

=== WikiProject ===
* Andrea reported that Columbia is continuing to make progress on restructuring and rewriting the Digital Preservation article.

=== New Projects Brainstorming ===
* Certifications
** Would like to hear from people involved in peer review.
** NCPSR involved in the Data Seal of Approval, a community model that involves peer review

* Standards
** Looking at which standards are being adopted. Trending up or trending down.
** Concern about survey fatigue
** Could be a qualitative look, perhaps in-group. Look to the Storage Survey as a model
** Possible questions: what standards are you using and why? Why other standards did you consider? What standards did you migrate from?

* Terms of Service
** Human-readable explanation of preservation commitment
** Also terms of service repositories enter into for hosted services

* File formats, Specifically PDF/A-3
** Follow-up from the Signal Blog post and related discussion.
** Stated need for a document that describes flavors of PDFs broadly and the strengths and weaknesses of each sub category. Information earlier in the lifecycle would be helpful for folks.
** Use case: a deposit wrapping everything in PDF/A, including audio and video, which is preventing the repository (NARA) from doing file more identification
** Harvard has "opaque objects" to support the submission of any file format, which can sometimes tempt people away from more fully supported file formats
** Portico would rather unknown files rather than those same files wrapped in a PDF, even if they can't identify them.

* Digital Preservation Profiles, similar to the Data Curation Profiles

* Levels of preservation and stages of development
** Meg and Jefferson Bailey submitted a proposal to SAA comparing the NDSA levels of preservation to other electronic records preservation models with levels
** A document that describes different models with levels of preservation, comparing similarities and analyzing gaps

* Lots of Interest in and who volunteered to write it up
** PDF/A-3 guidelines, Kate Murray
** Levels of preservation guidelines, Meg Phillips
** Certifications, Nancy McGovern and Mary Vardigan

=== Wiki Project ===
* Andrea reported that Columbia is continuing to make progress on restructuring and rewriting the Digital Preservation article.

=== Closing ===
* Next call the week of December 17th

NDSA:November 26, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes

2012-11-29T15:12:06Z

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== WebEx meeting notes, November 26, 2012 ==

Attending: Andrea Goethals, Kate Zwaard (note taker), Meg Philips, Kate Murray, Nancy McGovern, John Spencer, Mary Vardigan, Carol Kussman, Dina Sokolova, Emily Shaw, Aarom Trehub, Butch Lazorchak, Carl Fleishhauer, Amy Kirchhoff
'''(Apologies if I have left anyone out, please feel free to add your name.)'''

=== Opening ===
2 new members introduced themselves:
* Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
* Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries

=== Staffing Survey ===
* A reminder to please contribute to the lessons learned while they're still fresh
** http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Staffing_survey_planning_page
* How do we expand participation, especially to commercial institutions and institutions with large content collections
* The instructions for only one respondent per institution may have made it difficult for large institutions to participate (i.e., who is responsible for responding)
** Perhaps solicit individually. Get the list of the NDSA representative for each institution, enlist their help.
* Please consider joining the publish team (a great way to get a publication on your resume) or the archive team

=== WikiProject ===
* Andrea reported that Columbia is continuing to make progress on restructuring and rewriting the Digital Preservation article.

=== New Projects Brainstorming ===
* Certifications
** Would like to hear from people involved in peer review.
** NCPSR involved in the Data Seal of Approval, a community model that involves peer review

* Standards
** Looking at which standards are being adopted. Trending up or trending down.
** Concern about survey fatigue
** Could be a qualitative look, perhaps in-group. Look to the Storage Survey as a model
** Possible questions: what standards are you using and why? Why other standards did you consider? What standards did you migrate from?

* Terms of Service
** Human-readable explanation of preservation commitment
** Also terms of service repositories enter into for hosted services

* File formats, Specifically PDF/A-3
** Follow-up from the Signal Blog post and related discussion.
** Stated need for a document that describes flavors of PDFs broadly and the strengths and weaknesses of each sub category. Information earlier in the lifecycle would be helpful for folks.
** Use case: a deposit wrapping everything in PDF/A, including audio and video, which is preventing the repository (NARA) from doing file more identification
** Harvard has "opaque objects" to support the submission of any file format, which can sometimes tempt people away from more fully supported file formats
** Portico would rather unknown files rather than those same files wrapped in a PDF, even if they can't identify them.

* Digital Preservation Profiles, similar to the Data Curation Profiles

* Levels of preservation and stages of development
** Meg and Jefferson Bailey submitted a proposal to SAA comparing the NDSA levels of preservation to other electronic records preservation models with levels
** A document that describes different models with levels of preservation, comparing similarities and analyzing gaps

* Lots of Interest in and who volunteered to write it up
** PDF/A-3 guidelines, Kate Murray
** Levels of preservation guidelines, Meg Phillips
** Certifications, Nancy McGovern and Mary Vardigan

=== Wiki Project ===
* Andrea discussed at a Coordinating Committee call the possibility that we might want help from others in advancing this project to the stage where we could begin publicizing it. (This was based on concern that Columbia is currently shouldering most of the work of this project and we don't want to take advantage of their good will).
* Stephen suggested that they continue to work on the revamping of the digital preservation article until December when we can take a vision check-in. He thinks we should wait to publicize it broader until the new article structure is in place. They will throw up a flare when they need help with particular things. They are OK for now on finding sources to cite. They would like the group's help reviewing the work as they complete it. One thing we will need to consider at some point is how much we want to try to keep to our outlined strategy and how much we are willing to let others morph it independently of our project.

=== Closing ===
* Next call the week of December 17th

NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members

2012-11-27T16:58:14Z

Kzwa: Adding Kate Zwaard

'''Co-chairs:'''

* Co-chair: Andrea Goethals, Harvard University
** I manage Harvard Library's digital preservation program and repository. I am interested in better exposing standards and best practices that can help manage preservation repositories on a practical level. I will probably focus on best practice and guidance documents related to preservation policies and practices.
* Co-chair: Kate Zwaard, Library of Congress
** I manage software development projects in the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress where we build applications and services to support the digital content lifecycle.

'''Members (In order of first names):'''

* Aaron Collie, Michigan State University
* Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
* Abbigail Swanton, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, abbigail.swanton@dpi.wi.gov
* Allison Munsell, Munsell Studio
* Amy Kirchhoff, ITHAKA
** I am the Portico and JSTOR Archive Service Product Manager. I have a particular interest in standards related to content packaging, metadata, and file formats.
* Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
** I am the director of the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina. We work to provide permanent public access to publications created by or on behalf of North Carolina State Government agencies. Initiative activities include research and testing of technologies and tools to acquire, manage, preserve, and provide access to both born-digital and digitized information produced by the state agencies of North Carolina.
* Andy Maltz, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
* Barbara Dean, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
* Ben Fino-Radin, Rhizome
* Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California San Diego
* Carol Kussmann, Minnesota Historical Society
* Charles Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
* Christopher Segura, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism-University of Louisiana at Lafayette, c.segura@louisiana.edu
* Claire W. White, Stock Artists Alliance
* Courtney Michael, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Daniel R. Dodge, Thomson Reuters
* Daphne DeLeon, Nevada State Library and Archives
* Robert R. Downs, CIESIN, Columbia University
* Eileen Fenton, Portico
* Emily Frieda Shaw, University of Iowa Libraries
* Elizabeth Falk, Idaho State Archives
* Eugene Mopsik, American Society of Media Photographers
* Glenn Clatworthy, Public Broadcasting Service
* Gregory Sanford, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
* Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
* Ido Peled, Ex Libris Group
* Jason Gish, Testronic Labs, jason.gish@testroniclabs.com
* Jennifer King, Hampshire College Library, jking@hampshire.edu
* Jennifer Waxman, New York University
* Jessica Branco Colati, Northeast Document Conservation Center
* Joe Weisenbach, MAM-A Inc.
* John McCoskey, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
* John Spencer, BMS/Chace
* Josh Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Karen Cariani, WGBH Educational Foundation
* Kate Boyd, University of South Carolina, boydkf@mailbox.sc.edu
* Kate Murray, National Archives and Records Administration
** I am the Digitization Process Development Specialist in NARA's Digitization Services Branch. In a nutshell, my job is to coordinate an effective, efficient, and sustainable digitization infrastructure in support of NARA goals toward preserving and making available the Agency’s holdings - especially for AV materials. In this capacity, I look at processes and workflows related to increased automation and standardization including: format identification/documentation, migration/transformation strategies, tool identification and testing, and quality assurance/control.
* Kelcy Shepherd, Five Colleges, Inc. / University of Massachusetts Amherst, kshepherd@amherst.edu
* Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
* Margaret Maes, Legal Information Preservation Alliance
* Mark Abrahamson, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
* Mark Evans, Tessella Inc.
* Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
* Mary Vardigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
* Matthew Harris Glover, MS Department of Archives & History, mglover@mdah.state.ms.us
* Matt Peters, Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center
* Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
* Matt Veatch, Kansas State Historical Society, mveatch@kshs.org
* Meg Philips, National Archives and Records Administration
* Meghan Banach Bergin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, mbanach@library.umass.edu
* Michael Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
* Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University
* Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace
* Michele Timmons, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
* Midge Coates, Auburn University Libraries, COATEMI@auburn.edu
* Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries, nancymcg@mit.edu
* Nancy North, University of Michigan
* Nicole Joniec, The Library Company of Philadelphia
* Paula De Stefano, New York University (NYU)
* Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation
* Rachel L. Frick, Council on Library and Information Resources: Digital Library Federation
* Robert R. Downs, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University
* Shane Beers, University of Michigan
* Shawn Rounds, Minnesota Historical Society
* Stephen P Davis, Columbia - Director, Columbia Libraries Digital Program, with overall responsibility for our Fedora-based digital preservation repository and program.
* Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries
* Sue DuBois, Ripley Entertainment Inc., dubois@ripleys.com
* Tracy Popp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Libraries
* Victoria Walch, Council of State Archives
* Wayne Shoaf, University of Southern California
* Winston Atkins, Duke University Libraries, winston.atkins@duke.edu
* Yair Brama, Ex Libris Group

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NDSA:New Work

2012-11-16T22:33:25Z

Kzwa: some additions

Ideas for new projects:

* Certifications (e.g. TRAC, DRAMBORA, ISO 16363:2012)
** Hear from institutions who have gone through certification?
** Discuss merits/issues related to current certification processes & methods
* Adoption of standards (which standards are institutions using?)
* Terms of service (e.g., committment to URL persistence)
* File formats (specifically PDF/A-3)