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

2013-11-18T19:01:12Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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

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

2013-11-18T19:00:31Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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
** 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

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

2013-11-18T18:59:57Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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
** 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

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

2013-11-18T18:59:31Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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'''
** 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

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

2013-11-18T18:20:59Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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:
** 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'''
** 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

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

2013-11-18T18:20:04Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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:
** 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'''
** 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

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

2013-11-18T18:17:35Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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:
** 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'''
** 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 along with METS wrapper to create a basic preservation file structure on a server - and implementing BagIt validation on a periodic basis.

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

2013-11-18T17:58:51Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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:
** 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'''
** 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.
** 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 along with METS wrapper to create a basic preservation file structure on a server - and implementing BagIt validation on a periodic basis.

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

2013-11-18T17:58:32Z

Leah Prescott: /* "What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion */

== "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/

* '''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:
** 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'''
** 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.
** 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 along with METS wrapper to create a basic preservation file structure on a server - and implementing BagIt validation on a periodic basis.

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

2013-11-18T17:57:33Z

Leah Prescott:

== "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/

* '''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:
** 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

Georgetown University Law Library
* 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.
* 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 along with METS wrapper to create a basic preservation file structure on a server - and implementing BagIt validation on a periodic basis.

NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Charter

2013-09-16T17:46:36Z

Leah Prescott:

'''NDSA Working Group Scope Statement'''

'''Standards and Best Practices'''

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'''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.

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'''Practices'''

• Email List: NDSA-STANDARDS@list.digitalpreservation.gov

• Regular WebEx/Phone Meetings

• Annual conference

• Library of Congress-hosted wiki workspace

• Standards and Practices Group IdeaScale space: http://ndsa.ideascale.com/

• Google Docs

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'''Participation'''

Participation in the Standards and Practices Working Group is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Jimi Jones (jjones@loc.gov) and Andrea Goethals (andrea_goethals@harvard.edu) to join the Working Group.

Action Teams may be created around specific tasks. Action Teams may be self-organized by members of the Working Group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress. Action Teams can be comprised of people within or outside of the United States.

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'''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. In addition, the Working Group will conduct the following project.

Survey and document the digital preservation standards landscape.

• '''Objectives:'''

◦ Identify and describe existing digital preservation standards and best practices

◦ Identify opportunities for collaboration with non-NDSA individuals and organizations who are currently working on 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 future activities

• '''Scope:'''

◦ Compilation of existing digital preservation standards and best practices, including but not limited to:

▪ Authoring individuals and organizations

▪ Status of standard or best practice

▪ Description of standard or best practice

▪ Characterization of the standard or best practice (need to define categories)

▪ Examples of where and how they are used

▪ Related documents and Web sites

◦ Analysis and synthesis

▪ Identify gaps, areas of potential collaboration, etc.

◦ Publication of survey as an online resource

• '''Deliverables:'''

◦ Online resource (perhaps a wiki?) that can be continually updated by the NDSA Standards and Practices group and accessed by the general public

◦ Report

• '''Schedule'''

◦ Early Spring 2011: Project planning

◦ Late Spring 2011: Rough draft of report

◦ Summer 2011: “Live” online resource

◦ Summer 2011: Report on work at the NDSA annual conference

• '''Logistics & methodology'''

◦ Progress will be reported via the regular working group phone meetings.

◦ Discussions will happen on listserv and via emails and phone calls as needed

◦ NDSA Standards and Practices working group wiki space will be used to collate resources and work on the deliverables

▪ A Google Doc Spreadsheet may work better to collate resources because of its support for collaborative editing and column sorting.

• '''Participants'''

◦ Lead: Small group of Working Group members?

▪ Responsibilities: Manage the project (keep it on-track, provide status updates), Design contribution process (e.g. who can contribute, editorial review process?, how to publicize contribution process), Design information framework (e.g. the elements to record about each standard, controlled vocabulary values), Perform analysis on collated standards and best practices, Write summary report

◦ Participants: Entire Working Group

▪ Responsibilities: Identify and describe relevant standards and best practices

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'''Current Membership'''

Co-chairs:

• Co-chair: Jimi Jones, Library of Congress

• Co-chair: Andrea Goethals, Harvard University

Members:

• Jennifer Waxman, New York University

• Andy Maltz, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

• Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California San Diego

• Claire W. White, Stock Artists Alliance

• Daniel R. Dodge, Thomson Reuters

• Daphne DeLeon, Nevada State Library and Archives

• Eileen Fenton, Portico

• Elizabeth Falk, Idaho State Archives

• Rachel L. Frick, CLIR: Digital Library Federation

• Eugene Mopsik, American Society of Media Photographers

• Gregory Sanford, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration

• Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

• Johanna Bauman, ARTstor

• John McCoskey, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

• John Spencer, BMS/Chace

• Courtney Michael, WGBH Educational Foundation

• Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

• Kris Carpenter Negulescu, Internet Archive

• Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center Library

• Mark Abrahamson, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

• Mary Vardigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

• Matt Peters, Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center

• Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative

• Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University

• Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace

• Michele Timmons, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes

• Paula De Stefano, New York University (NYU)

• Shane Beers, University of Michigan

• Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Standards_and_Best_Practices_Working_Group NDSA Standards Group Home]

NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Charter

2013-09-16T17:45:17Z

Leah Prescott:

'''NDSA Working Group Scope Statement'''

'''Standards and Best Practices'''

----

'''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.

----

'''Practices'''

• Email List: NDSA-STANDARDS@list.digitalpreservation.gov

• Regular WebEx/Phone Meetings

• Annual conference

• Library of Congress-hosted wiki workspace

• Standards and Practices Group IdeaScale space: http://ndsa.ideascale.com/

• Google Docs

----

'''Participation'''

Participation in the Standards and Practices Working Group is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Jimi Jones (jjones@loc.gov) and Andrea Goethals (andrea_goethals@harvard.edu) to join the Working Group.

Action Teams may be created around specific tasks. Action Teams may be self-organized by members of the Working Group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress. Action Teams can be comprised of people within or outside of the United States.

----

'''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. In addition, the Working Group will conduct the following project.

Survey and document the digital preservation standards landscape.

• '''Objectives:'''

◦ Identify and describe existing digital preservation standards and best practices

◦ Identify opportunities for collaboration with non-NDSA individuals and organizations who are currently working on 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 future activities

• '''Scope:'''

◦ Compilation of existing digital preservation standards and best practices, including but not limited to:

▪ Authoring individuals and organizations

▪ Status of standard or best practice

▪ Description of standard or best practice

▪ Characterization of the standard or best practice (need to define categories)

▪ Examples of where and how they are used

▪ Related documents and Web sites

◦ Analysis and synthesis

▪ Identify gaps, areas of potential collaboration, etc.

◦ Publication of survey as an online resource

• '''Deliverables:'''

◦ Online resource (perhaps a wiki?) that can be continually updated by the NDSA Standards and Practices group and accessed by the general public

◦ Report

• '''Schedule'''

◦ Early Spring 2011: Project planning

◦ Late Spring 2011: Rough draft of report

◦ Summer 2011: “Live” online resource

◦ Summer 2011: Report on work at the NDSA annual conference

• '''Logistics & methodology'''

◦ Progress will be reported via the regular working group phone meetings.

◦ Discussions will happen on listserv and via emails and phone calls as needed

◦ NDSA Standards and Practices working group wiki space will be used to collate resources and work on the deliverables

▪ A Google Doc Spreadsheet may work better to collate resources because of its support for collaborative editing and column sorting.

• '''Participants'''

◦ Lead: Small group of Working Group members?

▪ Responsibilities: Manage the project (keep it on-track, provide status updates), Design contribution process (e.g. who can contribute, editorial review process?, how to publicize contribution process), Design information framework (e.g. the elements to record about each standard, controlled vocabulary values), Perform analysis on collated standards and best practices, Write summary report

◦ Participants: Entire Working Group

▪ Responsibilities: Identify and describe relevant standards and best practices

----

'''Current Membership'''

Co-chairs:

• Co-chair: Jimi Jones, Library of Congress

• Co-chair: Andrea Goethals, Harvard University

Members:

• Jennifer Waxman, New York University

• Andy Maltz, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

• Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California San Diego

• Claire W. White, Stock Artists Alliance

• Daniel R. Dodge, Thomson Reuters

• Daphne DeLeon, Nevada State Library and Archives

• Eileen Fenton, Portico

• Elizabeth Falk, Idaho State Archives

Rachel L. Frick, CLIR: Digital Library Federation

• Eugene Mopsik, American Society of Media Photographers

• Gregory Sanford, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration

• Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

• Johanna Bauman, ARTstor

• John McCoskey, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

• John Spencer, BMS/Chace

• Courtney Michael, WGBH Educational Foundation

• Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

• Kris Carpenter Negulescu, Internet Archive

• Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center Library

• Mark Abrahamson, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

• Mary Vardigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

• Matt Peters, Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center

• Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative

• Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University

• Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace

• Michele Timmons, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes

• Paula De Stefano, New York University (NYU)

• Shane Beers, University of Michigan

• Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Standards_and_Best_Practices_Working_Group NDSA Standards Group Home]