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NDSA:Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship

2013-08-01T14:44:18Z

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==Ideas for Next Steps==

==Source Materials==

[[NDSA:Media: Green_Bytes_Abstract_FINAL.pdf | Green Bytes Panel Abstract]]

[[NDSA:Media: Hull Case Study.pdf | Hull Case Study ]]

[[NDSA:Media: KCLCaseStudy_final.pdf | KCL Case Study ]]

[[NDSA:Media: EDINA_EdinburghCaseStudyFinal.pdf | EDINA Edinburgh Case Study]]

[[NDSA:Media: DataCenterMaturityModelv1.pdf | Data Center Maturity Model]]

NDSA:DataCenterMaturityModelv1.pdf

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NDSA:Hull Case Study.pdf

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NDSA:KCLCaseStudy final.pdf

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NDSA:EDINA EdinburghCaseStudyFinal.pdf

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NDSA:Green Bytes Abstract FINAL.pdf

2013-08-01T14:42:21Z

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NDSA:Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship

2013-08-01T14:42:00Z

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==Source Materials==

[[NDSA:Media: Green_Bytes_Abstract_FINAL.pdf | Green Bytes Panel Abstract]]

[[NDSA:Media: Hull Case Study.pdf | Hull Case Study ]]

[[NDSA:Media: KCLCaseStudy_final.pdf | KCL Case Study ]]

[[NDSA:Media: EDINA_EdinburghCaseStudyFinal.pdf | EDINA Edinburgh Case Study]]

[[NDSA:Media: DataCenterMaturityModelv1.pdf | Data Center Maturity Model]]

NDSA:Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship

2013-08-01T14:41:40Z

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==Source Materials==
[[NDSA:Media: Green_Bytes_Abstract_FINAL.pdf | Green Bytes Panel Abstract]]
[[NDSA:Media: Hull Case Study.pdf | Hull Case Study ]]
[[NDSA:Media: KCLCaseStudy_final.pdf | KCL Case Study ]]
[[NDSA:Media: EDINA_EdinburghCaseStudyFinal.pdf | EDINA Edinburgh Case Study]]
[[NDSA:Media: DataCenterMaturityModelv1.pdf | Data Center Maturity Model]]

NDSA:Main Page

2013-08-01T14:31:52Z

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[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa '''National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)''']
is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of present and future generations.

[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/index.html '''Members'''] of the Alliance pledge to work together to make a sustained contribution to digital stewardship action implemented through the working groups. There is no fee for membership; contribution is made though work.

[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php '''Join'''] with other organizations committed to the preservation of the nation's digital heritage to share expertise, tools and practices to benefit your local efforts while contributing to the stewardship of a grouping national collection of diverse digital content.

You can express your organization's interest in membership at:
[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php]

'''What do you want to work on?''' Express your interest or vote for new ideas at [http://ndsa.ideascale.com/ IdeaScale]

==Current Projects==
==='''[[NDSA:Content Working Group]]'''===
*'''[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]''' share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.

==='''[[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group]]'''===
* NDSA briefing -- present digital preservation projects and challenges that your organization is working through to the NDSA community. Sign up to present during one of the monthly WebEx.

==='''[[NDSA:Innovation Working Group]]'''===
* '''[[NDSA:Annual Innovation Awards]]''' a committee of NDSA members solicits and reviews nominations to give out recognition awards to promote innovative work in the field.
* '''[[NDSA:Levels of preservation]]''' Members are defining a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.
* '''[[NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation|Insights Interview Blog Post Series]]''' Members are interviewing people with experience interesting to but outside of the digital preservation field.
* Call for Technical Challenge!

==='''[[NDSA:Outreach Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box]]
* [[NDSA:Clearinghouse of Digital Preservation Information#Kickstarter Curated Pages | Kickstarter Curated Pages]]
* [[NDSA:Organizational Outreach]]

==='''[[NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group|Standards and Practices Working Group]]'''===
* Digital Preservation WikiProject
* [[NDSA:Staffing Survey]]

==='''[[NDSA:Cross-Working Group Projects|Cross-Working Group Projects]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Levels of Digital Preservation|Levels of Digital Preservation]]
* [[NDSA:Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship|Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship]]

==Completed Projects/Activities==
==='''[[NDSA:Content Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]

==='''[[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]
* [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]]
* [[NDSA:Infrastructure Storage Survey]]

==='''[[NDSA:Innovation Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Summer of code]]
* [[NDSA:Storage ping]]

NDSA:Main Page

2013-08-01T14:28:49Z

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[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa '''National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)''']
is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of present and future generations.

[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/index.html '''Members'''] of the Alliance pledge to work together to make a sustained contribution to digital stewardship action implemented through the working groups. There is no fee for membership; contribution is made though work.

[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php '''Join'''] with other organizations committed to the preservation of the nation's digital heritage to share expertise, tools and practices to benefit your local efforts while contributing to the stewardship of a grouping national collection of diverse digital content.

You can express your organization's interest in membership at:
[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php]

'''What do you want to work on?''' Express your interest or vote for new ideas at [http://ndsa.ideascale.com/ IdeaScale]

==Current Projects==
==='''[[NDSA:Content Working Group]]'''===
*'''[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]''' share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.

==='''[[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group]]'''===
* NDSA briefing -- present digital preservation projects and challenges that your organization is working through to the NDSA community. Sign up to present during one of the monthly WebEx.

==='''[[NDSA:Innovation Working Group]]'''===
* '''[[NDSA:Annual Innovation Awards]]''' a committee of NDSA members solicits and reviews nominations to give out recognition awards to promote innovative work in the field.
* '''[[NDSA:Levels of preservation]]''' Members are defining a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.
* '''[[NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation|Insights Interview Blog Post Series]]''' Members are interviewing people with experience interesting to but outside of the digital preservation field.
* Call for Technical Challenge!

==='''[[NDSA:Outreach Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box]]
* [[NDSA:Clearinghouse of Digital Preservation Information#Kickstarter Curated Pages | Kickstarter Curated Pages]]
* [[NDSA:Organizational Outreach]]

==='''[[NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group|Standards and Practices Working Group]]'''===
* Digital Preservation WikiProject
* [[NDSA:Staffing Survey]]

==='''[[NDSA:Cross-Working Group Projects|Cross-Working Group Projects]]'''===
* Levels of Digital Preservation
* Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship

==Completed Projects/Activities==
==='''[[NDSA:Content Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]

==='''[[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]
* [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]]
* [[NDSA:Infrastructure Storage Survey]]

==='''[[NDSA:Innovation Working Group]]'''===
* [[NDSA:Summer of code]]
* [[NDSA:Storage ping]]

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-03-13T18:02:10Z

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Draft Outline

==Introduction==
The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship identifies significant developments in preserving and providing long-term access to digital content. In a field of frequent change, this position piece evaluates the current state of digital stewardship activity and highlights current challenges and emerging issues. The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship identifies emerging trends, opportunities, and gaps in digital stewardship activity. The Agenda is intended to be of use to National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) members and to the digital preservation community as a whole. It is not intended to replace any individual organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions. It offers inspiration and potential direction for future work in digital preservation activity.
The NDSA establishes, maintains, and advances the capacity to preserve our nation's digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations. Members work together to make sustained contributions to digital stewardship through action-focused working groups. The NDSA broadens access to the expanding digital resources of the United States of America; develops and coordinates sustainable infrastructures for the preservation of digital content; advocates standards for the stewardship of digital objects; builds a community of practice; promotes innovation; facilitates cooperation between various sectors; and raises awareness of the enduring value of digital resources and the need for active stewardship.
With its national focus, the NDSA is in a unique position to identify and communicate the challenges, opportunities, and priorities for digital preservation activities in the United States.
The NDSA joint leadership group, experts in digital preservation in libraries, archives, technology, and the commercial sector, created this report. The group engaged in discussions to identify significant trends and challenges. This dialog was enriched by an extensive range of resources, current research, and suggestions from the membership of the NDSA. The joint leadership group is made up of the Coordinating Committee members, the Working Group co-chairs, and the NDSA facilitator.

• 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
• John Spencer
• Helen Tibbo
• Tyler Walters
• Kate Wittenberg
• Kate Zwaard

==Section topics ==
===Trends in Digital Content===

====Electronic Records====

Electronic records, and the loss of the underlying information it contains poses a significant threat to the American memory. Whether it’s an electronic diary, email correspondence, or documenting government transactions, all of these records are at risk of disappearing without thoughtful action to preserve important information. Preserving electronic records efficiently and in a cost effective manner remains a tremendous challenge. Culling through the volume of records generated and held by individuals and institutions in electronic format is requiring changes to traditional paper-based procedures. Rather than relying on files clerks to organize and store information, the information creator – each of us – will be responsible for properly managing his or her own electronic records. Education and a proper infrastructure will be a critical factor in teaching the public about the deficiencies of long-term electronic preservation and how to properly save important materials.

====Research Data====
Curating digital research data illustrates some of the most acute challenges with digital content. The sheer '''''scale''''' of research data represents a daunting curation task. With new scientific instrumentation being developed and the growing use of computer simulations, a research team can generate many terabytes of data per day. Data curators face managing at the petabyte scale (a petabyte equals 1,000 terabytes) and well beyond. Scientific fields such as particle physics with its collider data and astronomy with its sky surveys as well as research fields and methods such as bioinformatics, crystallography, and engineering design generate massive amounts of digital data. Large scale digitized content being created by initiatives like the Google Books project pose similar challenges. Digital research data are '''''complex''''' objects to curate. They are very heterogeneous, ranging from numeric and image-based, to text, geospatial, and other forms. There are many different information standards used (and not used) as well as many different approaches to information structure (e.g., XML-structured documents vs. fixed image and textual file formats). The research '''''communities''''' that produce data are equally diverse; their data management practices vary greatly within a discipline as well as between disciplines. There can also be commercial interests in the data and associated data practices. Perhaps the overriding challenges in all respects to digital research data are the affiliated costs. Domain researchers, technologists, information scientists, and policymakers are searching for sustainable economic models with the ability to accurately predict costs and to balance them across the lifecycle (e.g. costs for ingest, archival management, and dissemination), and through federated inter-institutional repository systems. There is no “one size fits all” approach when it comes to resolving the management challenges of research data. A path forward would be to galvanize digital preservation/curation community members around these four data challenges – scale, complexity, research communities’ practices, and costs -- study the issues more in-depth and begin recommending new solutions.

====Web and Social Media====
'''DRAFT DRAFT'''

While cultural heritage organizations and others have been preserving web content since 1996, challenges continue in preserving born digital web content as websites become more complex and the scale of the web continues to grow. Crawlers used to collect content, as well as access tools used to render the web archives, are increasingly challenged in keeping up with the explosion of ever-complex technologies: multimedia, mashups, deep-web, databases, and the increasing prevalence of heavily scripted site navigational paradigms that do not prevent the collection of data but make replay nearly impossible without changes to the browser configuration of a visitor to the archive. More and more content published and created on the web is unable to be preserved using available tools.

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (netpreserve.org) developed the Heritrix web crawler and is working to develop a community to stabilize, improve, and support this open source tool in the future. Broader involvement by web archivists not involved directly in IIPC is critical. Development and exploration of improvements to access tools, including data mining tools for large datasets of web archives, are also needed. Full-text indexing of web archives continues to challenge researchers and the community of web archivists, particularly as archives expand and reach multiple terabyte and petabyte size.

The increasing use of social media by organizations and individuals can also be a challenge to preserve, as services hosting this content do not have preservation as a business model and changes they make in how they serve up content can upset the preservation process. The rate of publication/site implementations and change for large social media aggregation sites is, on average, every 3-6 weeks. This makes it virtually impossible to keep pace with an archival quality capture of these resources without direct access to the site feeds which are not available to most cultural heritage institutions even for a fee.

Tools being developed in recent years, primarily to meet the needs of business compliance regulations, are able to capture more of this type of material on a small scale. While they show exciting advancements in the tools available for web archiving, the technologies available have not yet translated to open source tools that scale to the needs of cultural heritage institutions and others collecting large amounts of data.

====Motion Picture Film and Video====
''[rough notes from Carolyn - need a writeup]''
The challenges are outlined here:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/series/challenge/DigitizationGuidelinesPart3.html

Digital preservation and stewardship of motion picture film and video presents a multitude of challenges. There is a lack of standards for preservation quality reformatting and a slew of issues that come from producing such large files-- not only storage of these monster files, but the ability to playback such files, etc. And also the clash or the potential synergy between the movie industry and cultural heritage institutions.

====Digital content stored on obsolete or deteriorating media====

As more archives and repositories come to terms with managing born digital content there will be a growing need for the management of disk images. The first rule for managing born digital content is to remove a copy of all the digital files from the physical media. This means digitally transforming hard drives, CD, DVD, floppies, zip disks, etc., often working with media that is obsolete (ie., older, not still in use). These transformed materials can be either forensic or logical disk images of the physical media. The main challenge in this first step is that the organization may not have the means to adequately process the digital files right away. This will then require rights-sensitive and potentially huge amount of storage until these materials can be appropriately treated and made available. As hard drives get larger and the storage capacity for an individual can easily jump to the terabytes this will pose a significant long term challenge for digital preservation, particularly at smaller organizations. Additionally, with obsolete media it may be difficult to identify and obtain working drives or drivers needed to access the data, and with older files it could be difficult to obtain software needed to open and view files as originally written.

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on trends in digital content'''
* Web archiving
* Research data
* Big data
** Computational consumption of archives
* How do you connect annotations to content? Should we preserve those connections?
* How do we provide access with appropriate limits
** (government classification, copyright restrictions, donor agreements, licenses, human subject research restrictions). ** Rights metadata standards?
* Compound, complex objects
** Dynamic content, integrating resources
** Not just documents (video, digital art / new media, etc.)
* Preservation of social media
* How to connect related publications (within and between repositories)
* Findability and discoverability of content
* Accessibility of digital content (e.g., usable via screen reader)
** Accessibility of data sets
** In the context of open access requirements / mandates / etc.
'''End input from S&P Working Group on trends in digital content'''

===Research Priorities===
The Research Priorities section focuses on two distinct aspects of research: the long term preservation of research data such as e-science, data sets, and so forth; and the need for research on digital preservation activities.

====Research Data====
[EXAMPLE] Education Workforce Development Research: Sentence to paragraph description with rationale for including the topic in the ''2014 National Agenda.'' Recommendation for action included if relevant.

====Research Related to Digital Preservation Practices====

=====''Applied Research''=====

In the near term future, there are specific areas of applied research around digital preservation lifecycle issues that need attention. Currently there are limited models for cost estimation for ongoing storage of digital content. Cost estimation models need to be robust and flexible. Different approaches to cost estimation should be explored and comparisons of existing models made with emphasis on reproducibility of results. Auditing models also need to be strengthened and further developed. The SafeArchive system and other bit-level auditing practices could be connected to the NDSA Levels of Preservation work to help organizations determine and validate the costs of scaling different auditing schemes. Around both topics, research needs to address multiple storage models: locally stored data, distributed preservation networks, data cooperatives, cloud storage, brokered cloud storage systems and hybrid systems need to be addressed in cost models and auditing practices so that organizations can make informed cost-effective digital preservation decisions.

=====''Research in Curriculum Development''=====

=====''Theoretical Framework''=====
(3-6 Year horizon) ["helen"]
1. Information valuation/selection. Models for estimating future private & public value of information.
2. Models for estimating future risks

=====''Information Equivalence''=====
(3-6 year) [''Jefferson'']: Significant properties, fingerprints, authenticity

iv. preservation at scale (3-6 year): [''Jefferson'']
1. Preserving 'big data' -- storage scale
2. preserving high-velocity/dynamic
3. Scalable models for information provenance, equivalence, and quality
4. Information valuation and portfolio management
5. Privacy & confidentiality @ scale

=====''Policy Research''=====
(3-6 year): ["Micah"]
1.Trust engineering, trust frameworks

=====''Education Workforce Development Research''=====
(3-6 year) [''Helen'']
=====''Evidence-Based for Preservation Methodologies & Policies''=====
(Cross-Cutting/10 years/Grand Challenge) ["Micah"]
1. experimental: labs/testbeds/field experiments
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful results with simulation of long time periods.
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test plans.
• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g., computer science, materials science
2. observational: random sampling/systematic trend/coverage
3. computational: replicable theoretically grounded computer models
4. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to test research results and implement effective strategies from the research lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized knowledge and skills to specific problems

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on research'''
* Findability and discoverability of content
* Large scale integration of emulation into delivery (connect to work done internationally)
* Format migration testing
* Integration of emulation and migration (hybrid approach)
* How do we leverage tools and practices in the digital forensics community (and other fields)?
'''End input from S&P Working Group on research'''

Research Priorities References:
* www.safearhive.org
* http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/ndsa-levels-of-digital-preservation-release-candidate-one/

===Infrastructure Development===

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.
--[[NDSA:User:Micah altman|Micah altman]] 18:31, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

ii.Examples:

• Trends in data protection standards

• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation strategy

• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

====Integration of Digital Forensics Tools into Production Workflows for Collections of Born Digital Materials====
* Building on exploratory work on using digital forensics (CLIR report, recent DPC report)
* Leveraging underdevelopment tools (like bit curator) and implementing workflows like those laid out in the AIMS report.
* Mention OCLC SWAT project as a great example of a potential way forward.
* CLEAR NEED: Considerable ground has been made on preservation, but access remains problematic. Advances here in infrastructure development suggest the need for further development of both policies and tools that work based on those policies.

====Implementation of tools and services for ongoing implementation of File Format Action Plans====
As organizations are now amassing considerable and in many cases diverse and heterogeneous collections of digital files there is both a need and an opportunity for organizations to begin to mine and monitor this material. We are now getting to the point where we have an array of digital files under stewardship of various vintages and there is a clear need for organizations to begin surveying their digital content and files and developing techniques to identify threats and risks to this material. We would like to suggest that there is clear value in organizations beginning to document what kinds of files they have and share this information to prioritize the development of approaches for format actions based on the clear current needs.

====Need for targeted help to move organizations up through the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation====
The work of the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation team has produced a useful chart for helping to prioritize digital preservation work at organizations. At this point, it would be beneficial for the community to use this chart as a means to help identify the low level infrastructure requirements that many member organizations are not currently meeting and try to focus time and energy on helping make it easier for organizations to move up the chart.

'''Start input from Digital Content group'''

>>file system - linear tape file system (transport between tape, into cloud)

We were thinking about passing it to you for consideration in your section as it doesn't feel contenty, it feels more infrastructurey (to us at least, who admittedly don't fully understand what the issue is :)

Gail Truman was the one who'd brought it up, and she forwarded some additional details, below. I think Bradley Daigle also discussed this on our call, but he's not responded to a request yet for more details.

'''End input from Digital Content group'''

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on 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
** Shared tool development or reusing tools developed by other communities
* 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 tools are available to do things like package and annotate content (i.e., in lieu of PDF/A-3)
* Storage concerns at scale.
* Tools for risk assessment or other archive management tasks (e.g. preservation planning)
'''End input from S&P Working Group on infrastructure'''

===Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices===

====A. The Issue====
What is the most critical organizational problem affecting digital preservation work today?

Despite continued preservation mandates, it has become increasingly difficult to adequately preserve digital content because of a complex set of interrelated societal, technological, financial and organizational pressures:
* Increased scope of responsibilities (data management, education of content creators, etc.)
* Growing financial pressures - increased costs and decreasing resources
* Lack of adequate staff, in numbers and expertise (refer to the staffing survey)
* Increased complexity and volume of data (see the comments in the content section)
* Rapidly accelerating technological change
* Evolving data management, security and compliance policies
* Lack of prioritization of digital preservation by higher administration and those controlling budgets

====B. Solutions and Recommendations====
What potential solutions could address this challenge in a practical way? Because the pressures listed above are interrelated, the most effective solutions will address multiple factors -- we need to address the whole suite of problems together for most effective change.

=====1. Work together as a community to raise the profile of digital preservation and campaign for more resources and higher priority given to digital preservation=====
Recommendations:
* Increase outreach activities and education about the importance and real cost of digital preservation

=====2. Dramatically increase cross-organizational cooperation and division of labor to multiply the breadth of impact and investments made within individual institutions=====
Rationale:
* If it is impractical for every institution to develop expertise in every aspect of the digital preservation challenge; different institutions could specialize in different aspects and rely on each other for some functions.
* If each institution does not have the resources to fully fund all the digital preservation responsibilities and activities, having each institution spend on something different and sharing capabilities with each other would place investments wisely where they could make a real impact.
* If each institution cannot hire the number of staff and the variety of types of expertise, collaborative hiring and sharing of staff and skills could help.
Recommendations:
* Identify preservation functions that could be outsourced (the staffing survey revealed some functions) versus the functions that each organization prefers to or must do for itself (e.g. planning, alignment with parent organization’s goals and designated communities)
* Establish a network of preservation service providers who can provide different specialized services so every participant does not need to provide all the services it needs for itself.
** Make visible the different services offered, areas of expertise, and standards activities of organizations active in the digital preservation community
** Use that visibility to find opportunities where multiple organizations could benefit from a division of labor and identify gaps where something necessary is not getting done
** Identify potential specializations, then publicize commitments of organizations to specialize in a particular function so others can begin to rely on it.
* Develop mature certification and trust frameworks
* Encourage wide adoption of interoperability standards that would allow organizations to rely on each other more easily for predictable and equivalent outcomes
* Establish a method of providing assurance that the digital preservation community is participating in all relevant standards bodies so that institutions can trust that their digital preservation interests are being represented by someone in the community when it matters. We need comprehensive coverage on all critically relevant standards bodies, and coordination so that it is clear who has taken responsibility for what.. [Butch - please explain relation to network]

=====3. Identify more cost-efficient methods of preservation=====
Recommendations:
* Conduct research on cost-efficient but effective preservation, and sustainable financing/billing models

=====4. Develop and share digital preservation training and staffing resources=====
Recommendations:
* Develop and share resources for training or hiring digital preservation staff (e.g. curricula, training materials. position descriptions)

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-03-05T14:56:25Z

Mgal:

Draft Outline

==Introduction==

a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

i. The document is inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work and observations of the joint leadership group. It is also an evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year

ii. The document is not intended to be prescriptive, a directive to working groups, and it is not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.

iii. Hoped for impact

b. Description of the NDSA, NDSA goals and how the 2014 Agenda furthers those goals (i.e inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans)

c. Intended audience: NDSA members and the wider digital preservation community

d. Authored by the joint leadership group

==Section topics ==
===Trends in Digital Content===

====Electronic Records====

Electronic records, and the loss of the underlying information it contains poses a significant threat to the American memory. Whether it’s an electronic diary, email correspondence, or documenting government transactions, all of these records are at risk of disappearing without thoughtful action to preserve important information. Preserving electronic records efficiently and in a cost effective manner remains a tremendous challenge. Culling through the volume of records generated and held by individuals and institutions in electronic format is requiring changes to traditional paper-based procedures. Rather than relying on files clerks to organize and store information, the information creator – each of us – will be responsible for properly managing his or her own electronic records. Education and a proper infrastructure will be a critical factor in teaching the public about the deficiencies of long-term electronic preservation and how to properly save important materials.

====Research Data====
Curating digital research data illustrates some of the most acute challenges with digital content. The sheer '''''scale''''' of research data represents a daunting curation task. With new scientific instrumentation being developed and the growing use of computer simulations, a research team can generate many terabytes of data per day. Data curators face managing at the petabyte scale (a petabyte equals 1,000 terabytes) and well beyond. Scientific fields such as particle physics with its collider data and astronomy with its sky surveys as well as research fields and methods such as bioinformatics, crystallography, and engineering design generate massive amounts of digital data. Large scale digitized content being created by initiatives like the Google Books project pose similar challenges. Digital research data are '''''complex''''' objects to curate. They are very heterogeneous, ranging from numeric and image-based, to text, geospatial, and other forms. There are many different information standards used (and not used) as well as many different approaches to information structure (e.g., XML-structured documents vs. fixed image and textual file formats). The research '''''communities''''' that produce data are equally diverse; their data management practices vary greatly within a discipline as well as between disciplines. There can also be commercial interests in the data and associated data practices. Perhaps the overriding challenges in all respects to digital research data are the affiliated costs. Domain researchers, technologists, information scientists, and policymakers are searching for sustainable economic models with the ability to accurately predict costs and to balance them across the lifecycle (e.g. costs for ingest, archival management, and dissemination), and through federated inter-institutional repository systems. There is no “one size fits all” approach when it comes to resolving the management challenges of research data. A path forward would be to galvanize digital preservation/curation community members around these four data challenges – scale, complexity, research communities’ practices, and costs -- study the issues more in-depth and begin recommending new solutions.

====Web and Social Media====
'''DRAFT DRAFT'''

While cultural heritage organizations and others have been preserving web content since 1996, challenges continue in preserving born digital web content as websites become more complex and the scale of the web continues to grow. Crawlers used to collect content, as well as access tools used to render the web archives, are increasingly challenged in keeping up with the explosion of ever-complex technologies: multimedia, mashups, deep-web, databases [others to list?]. More and more content published and created on the web is unable to be preserved using available tools.

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (netpreserve.org) developed the Heritrix web crawler and is working to develop a community to stabilize, improve, and support this open source tool in the future. Broader involvement by web archivists not involved directly in IIPC is critical. Development and exploration of improvements to access tools, including data mining tools for large datasets of web archives, are also needed. Full-text indexing of web archives continues to challenge researchers and the community of web archivists, particularly as archives expand and reach multiple terabyte and petabyte size.

The increasing use of social media by organizations and individuals can also be a challenge to preserve, as services hosting this content do not have preservation as a business model and changes they make in how they serve up content can upset the preservation process. Tools being developed in recent years, primarily to meet the needs of business compliance regulations, are able to capture more of this type of material on a small scale. While they show exciting advancements in the tools available for web archiving, the technologies available have not yet translated to open source tools that scale to the needs of cultural heritage institutions and others collecting large amounts of data.

====Motion Picture Film and Video====
''[rough notes from Carolyn - need a writeup]''
The challenges are outlined here:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/series/challenge/DigitizationGuidelinesPart3.html

Digital preservation and stewardship of motion picture film and video presents a multitude of challenges. There is a lack of standards for preservation quality reformatting and a slew of issues that come from producing such large files-- not only storage of these monster files, but the ability to playback such files, etc. And also the clash or the potential synergy between the movie industry and cultural heritage institutions.

====Digital content stored on obsolete or deteriorating media====

As more archives and repositories come to terms with managing born digital content there will be a growing need for the management of disk images. The first rule for managing born digital content is to remove a copy of all the digital files from the physical media. This means digitally transforming hard drives, CD, DVD, floppies, zip disks, etc., often working with media that is obsolete (ie., older, not still in use). These transformed materials can be either forensic or logical disk images of the physical media. The main challenge in this first step is that the organization may not have the means to adequately process the digital files right away. This will then require rights-sensitive and potentially huge amount of storage until these materials can be appropriately treated and made available. As hard drives get larger and the storage capacity for an individual can easily jump to the terabytes this will pose a significant long term challenge for digital preservation, particularly at smaller organizations. Additionally, with obsolete media it may be difficult to identify and obtain working drives or drivers needed to access the data, and with older files it could be difficult to obtain software needed to open and view files as originally written.

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on trends in digital content'''
* Web archiving
* Research data
* Big data
** Computational consumption of archives
* How do you connect annotations to content? Should we preserve those connections?
* How do we provide access with appropriate limits
** (government classification, copyright restrictions, donor agreements, licenses, human subject research restrictions). ** Rights metadata standards?
* Compound, complex objects
** Dynamic content, integrating resources
** Not just documents (video, digital art / new media, etc.)
* Preservation of social media
* How to connect related publications (within and between repositories)
* Findability and discoverability of content
* Accessibility of digital content (e.g., usable via screen reader)
** Accessibility of data sets
** In the context of open access requirements / mandates / etc.
'''End input from S&P Working Group on trends in digital content'''

===Research Priorities===
The Research Priorities section focuses on two distinct aspects of research: the long term preservation of research data such as e-science, data sets, and so forth; and the need for research on digital preservation activities.

====Research Data====
[EXAMPLE] Education Workforce Development Research: Sentence to paragraph description with rationale for including the topic in the ''2014 National Agenda.'' Recommendation for action included if relevant.

====Research Related to Digital Preservation Practices====

=====''Applied Research''=====

In the near term future, there are specific areas of applied research around digital preservation lifecycle issues that need attention. Currently there are limited models for cost estimation for ongoing storage of digital content. Cost estimation models need to be robust and flexible. Different approaches to cost estimation should be explored and comparisons of existing models made with emphasis on reproducibility of results. Auditing models also need to be strengthened and further developed. The SafeArchive system and other bit-level auditing practices could be connected to the NDSA Levels of Preservation work to help organizations determine and validate the costs of scaling different auditing schemes. Around both topics, research needs to address multiple storage models: locally stored data, distributed preservation networks, data cooperatives, cloud storage, brokered cloud storage systems and hybrid systems need to be addressed in cost models and auditing practices so that organizations can make informed cost-effective digital preservation decisions.

=====''Research in Curriculum Development''=====

=====''Theoretical Framework''=====
(3-6 Year horizon) ["helen"]
1. Information valuation/selection. Models for estimating future private & public value of information.
2. Models for estimating future risks

=====''Information Equivalence''=====
(3-6 year) [''Jefferson'']: Significant properties, fingerprints, authenticity

iv. preservation at scale (3-6 year): [''Jefferson'']
1. Preserving 'big data' -- storage scale
2. preserving high-velocity/dynamic
3. Scalable models for information provenance, equivalence, and quality
4. Information valuation and portfolio management
5. Privacy & confidentiality @ scale

=====''Policy Research''=====
(3-6 year): ["Micah"]
1.Trust engineering, trust frameworks

=====''Education Workforce Development Research''=====
(3-6 year) [''Helen'']
=====''Evidence-Based for Preservation Methodologies & Policies''=====
(Cross-Cutting/10 years/Grand Challenge) ["Micah"]
1. experimental: labs/testbeds/field experiments
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful results with simulation of long time periods.
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test plans.
• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g., computer science, materials science
2. observational: random sampling/systematic trend/coverage
3. computational: replicable theoretically grounded computer models
4. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to test research results and implement effective strategies from the research lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized knowledge and skills to specific problems

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on research'''
* Findability and discoverability of content
* Large scale integration of emulation into delivery (connect to work done internationally)
* Format migration testing
* Integration of emulation and migration (hybrid approach)
* How do we leverage tools and practices in the digital forensics community (and other fields)?
'''End input from S&P Working Group on research'''

Research Priorities References:
* www.safearhive.org
* http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/ndsa-levels-of-digital-preservation-release-candidate-one/

===Infrastructure Development===

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.
--[[NDSA:User:Micah altman|Micah altman]] 18:31, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

ii.Examples:

• Trends in data protection standards

• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation strategy

• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

====Integration of Digital Forensics Tools into Production Workflows for Collections of Born Digital Materials====
* Building on exploratory work on using digital forensics (CLIR report, recent DPC report)
* Leveraging underdevelopment tools (like bit curator) and implementing workflows like those laid out in the AIMS report.
* Mention OCLC SWAT project as a great example of a potential way forward.
* CLEAR NEED: Considerable ground has been made on preservation, but access remains problematic. Advances here in infrastructure development suggest the need for further development of both policies and tools that work based on those policies.

====Implementation of tools and services for ongoing implementation of File Format Action Plans====
As organizations are now amassing considerable and in many cases diverse and heterogeneous collections of digital files there is both a need and an opportunity for organizations to begin to mine and monitor this material. We are now getting to the point where we have an array of digital files under stewardship of various vintages and there is a clear need for organizations to begin surveying their digital content and files and developing techniques to identify threats and risks to this material. We would like to suggest that there is clear value in organizations beginning to document what kinds of files they have and share this information to prioritize the development of approaches for format actions based on the clear current needs.

====Need for targeted help to move organizations up through the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation====
The work of the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation team has produced a useful chart for helping to prioritize digital preservation work at organizations. At this point, it would be beneficial for the community to use this chart as a means to help identify the low level infrastructure requirements that many member organizations are not currently meeting and try to focus time and energy on helping make it easier for organizations to move up the chart.

'''Start input from Digital Content group'''

>>file system - linear tape file system (transport between tape, into cloud)

We were thinking about passing it to you for consideration in your section as it doesn't feel contenty, it feels more infrastructurey (to us at least, who admittedly don't fully understand what the issue is :)

Gail Truman was the one who'd brought it up, and she forwarded some additional details, below. I think Bradley Daigle also discussed this on our call, but he's not responded to a request yet for more details.

'''End input from Digital Content group'''

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on 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
** Shared tool development or reusing tools developed by other communities
* 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 tools are available to do things like package and annotate content (i.e., in lieu of PDF/A-3)
* Storage concerns at scale.
* Tools for risk assessment or other archive management tasks (e.g. preservation planning)
'''End input from S&P Working Group on infrastructure'''

===Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices===

'''Issues: What is the critical organizational problem facing digital preservation work today?'''

* Organizational pressures
** Increased scope of responsibilities (data management, education of content creators, etc.)
** financial pressures - increased costs
** lack of inadequate staff (refer to the staffing survey)
** volume, increased complexity of data (see the comments in the content section)
** changing context (compliance rules, etc.)
** lack of prioritization of dp by higher administration and those controlling budgets
** continued preservation mandates

'''What potential solutions could address this challenge in a practical way?'''

* Work together as a community to raise the profile of DP and campaign for more resources, higher priority given to DP

and/or

* Increased organizational cooperation and division of labor to multiply the breadth of impact of investments made within individual institutions
** If it is impractical for every institution to develop expertise in every aspect of the digital preservation challenge, different institutions could specialize in different aspects and rely on each other for some functions
** If each institution does not have the resources to fully fund all the digital preservation responsibilities and activities, having each institution spend on something different and sharing capabilities with each other would help address the cost
** If each institution cannot hire the number of staff and the variety of types of expertise, collaborative hiring and sharing of staff and skills could help

and/or

* Identification of more cost-efficient methods of preservation

and/or

* DP training and staffing resources (training materials, hiring materials, etc.)

'''What are barriers to realizing collaborations and cooperative ? on a large scale?'''

* Lack of knowledge on where natural collaborations could occur
* Immature certification and trust frameworks
* Lack of widely accepted standards and certifications that would allow organizations to rely on each other more easily for predictable and equivalent outcomes
* Lack of assurance that the digital preservation community is participating in all relevant standards bodies so that institutions can trust that their digital preservation interests are being represented by someone in the community when it matters. We need comprehensive coverage on all critically relevant standards bodies, and coordination so that it is clear who has taken responsibility for what.

'''In order to address these barriers, we recommend focused work in the following areas:'''

* Build and strengthen interdependent [??] preservation networks regionally, nationally and internationally
** Identify preservation functions that could be outsourced (staffing survey revealed some functions) and functions that each organization prefers to or must do for itself (planning, alignment with parent organization’s goals, and alignment with designated communities might be examples in this category)
** Create greater visibility into the different services offered, areas of expertise, and standards activities of organizations active in the digital preservation community
** Use that visibility to analyze gaps where something necessary is not getting done and find opportunities where multiple organizations could benefit from a division of labor.
** Identify potential specializations, then publicize commitments of organizations to specialize in a particular function so others can begin to rely on it.

'''Raw notes from S&P Working Group:'''
* 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
* International efforts and leveraging other preservation groups
* Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation publication as a reference
* Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives
** Findings from the staffing survey (needs gaps, characteristics of needed staff)
* What are the barriers to hiring qualified staff? Is it training? Budget? Finding people?
* Collection of position descriptions that people could use as models.
* How do we convince management that digital preservation is important and deserves resources?
* Audit and certification
* Scope of what we’re responsible for as practitioners has been broadening (data management,...) Also at different levels (department, institution, community)
* Role of disciplinary repositories (how does our organization’s repository fit into the network of repositories?)
* Changing rules for compliance

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-26T16:37:07Z

Mgal: /* Infrastructure Development */

Draft Outline

==Introduction==

a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

i. The document is inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work and observations of the joint leadership group. It is also an evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year

ii. The document is not intended to be prescriptive, a directive to working groups, and it is not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.

iii. Hoped for impact

b. Description of the NDSA, NDSA goals and how the 2014 Agenda furthers those goals (i.e inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans)

c. Intended audience: NDSA members and the wider digital preservation community

d. Authored by the joint leadership group

==Section topics ==
===Trends in Digital Content===

====Electronic Records====

Electronic records, and the loss of the underlying information it contains poses a significant threat to the American memory. Whether it’s an electronic diary, email correspondence, or documenting government transactions, all of these records are at risk of disappearing without thoughtful action to preserve important information. Preserving electronic records efficiently and in a cost effective manner remains a tremendous challenge. Culling through the volume of records generated and held by individuals and institutions in electronic format is requiring changes to traditional paper-based procedures. Rather than relying on files clerks to organize and store information, the information creator – each of us – will be responsible for properly managing his or her own electronic records. Education and a proper infrastructure will be a critical factor in teaching the public about the deficiencies of long-term electronic preservation and how to properly save important materials.

====Research Data====
Curating digital research data illustrates some of the most acute challenges with digital content. The sheer '''''scale''''' of research data represents a daunting curation task. With new scientific instrumentation being developed and the growing use of computer simulations, a research team can generate many terabytes of data per day. Data curators face managing at the petabyte scale (a petabyte equals 1,000 terabytes) and well beyond. Scientific fields such as particle physics with its collider data and astronomy with its sky surveys as well as research fields and methods such as bioinformatics, crystallography, and engineering design generate massive amounts of digital data. Large scale digitized content being created by initiatives like the Google Books project pose similar challenges. Digital research data are '''''complex''''' objects to curate. They are very heterogeneous, ranging from numeric and image-based, to text, geospatial, and other forms. There are many different information standards used (and not used) as well as many different approaches to information structure (e.g., XML-structured documents vs. fixed image and textual file formats). The research '''''communities''''' that produce data are equally diverse; their data management practices vary greatly within a discipline as well as between disciplines. There can also be commercial interests in the data and associated data practices. Perhaps the overriding challenges in all respects to digital research data are the affiliated costs. Domain researchers, technologists, information scientists, and policymakers are searching for sustainable economic models with the ability to accurately predict costs and to balance them across the lifecycle (e.g. costs for ingest, archival management, and dissemination), and through federated inter-institutional repository systems. There is no “one size fits all” approach when it comes to resolving the management challenges of research data.

====Web and Social Media====
'''DRAFT DRAFT'''

While cultural heritage organizations and others have been preserving web content since 1996, challenges continue in preserving born digital web content as websites become more complex and the scale of the web continues to grow. Crawlers used to collect content, as well as access tools used to render the web archives, are increasingly challenged in keeping up with the explosion of ever-complex technologies: multimedia, mashups, deep-web, databases [others to list?]. More and more content published and created on the web is unable to be preserved using available tools.

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (netpreserve.org) developed the Heritrix web crawler and is working to develop a community to stabilize, improve, and support this open source tool in the future. Broader involvement by web archivists not involved directly in IIPC is critical. Development and exploration of improvements to access tools, including data mining tools for large datasets of web archives, are also needed. Full-text indexing of web archives continues to challenge researchers and the community of web archivists, particularly as archives expand and reach multiple terabyte and petabyte size.

The increasing use of social media by organizations and individuals can also be a challenge to preserve, as services hosting this content do not have preservation as a business model and changes they make in how they serve up content can upset the preservation process. Tools being developed in recent years, primarily to meet the needs of business compliance regulations, are able to capture more of this type of material on a small scale. While they show exciting advancements in the tools available for web archiving, the technologies available have not yet translated to open source tools that scale to the needs of cultural heritage institutions and others collecting large amounts of data.

====Motion Picture Film and Video====
''[rough notes from Carolyn - need a writeup]''
The challenges are outlined here:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/series/challenge/DigitizationGuidelinesPart3.html

Motion picture film and video--challenges of (lack of) standards for preservation quality reformatting and a slew of issues that come from producing such large files-- not only storage of these monster files, but the ability to playback such files, etc. And also the clash or the potential synergy between the movie industry and cultural heritage institutions.

====Digital content stored on obsololete or deteriorating media====
(our interpretation of what was meant by " Disc images - come off physical media images, optical media, magnetic storage media"

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on trends in digital content'''
* Web archiving
* Research data
* Big data
** Computational consumption of archives
* How do you connect annotations to content? Should we preserve those connections?
* How do we provide access with appropriate limits
** (government classification, copyright restrictions, donor agreements, licenses, human subject research restrictions). ** Rights metadata standards?
* Compound, complex objects
** Dynamic content, integrating resources
** Not just documents (video, digital art / new media, etc.)
* Preservation of social media
* How to connect related publications (within and between repositories)
* Findability and discoverability of content
* Accessibility of digital content (e.g., usable via screen reader)
** Accessibility of data sets
** In the context of open access requirements / mandates / etc.
'''End input from S&P Working Group on trends in digital content'''

===Research Priorities===
The Research Priorities section focuses on two distinct aspects of research: the long term preservation of research data such as e-science, data sets, and so forth; and the need for research on digital preservation activities.

====Research Data====
[EXAMPLE] Education Workforce Development Research: Sentence to paragraph description with rationale for including the topic in the ''2014 National Agenda.'' Recommendation for action included if relevant.

====Research Related to Digital Preservation Practices====

=====''Applied Research''=====

In the near term future, there are specific areas of applied research around digital preservation lifecycle issues that need attention. Currently there are limited models for cost estimation for ongoing storage of digital content. Cost estimation models need to be robust and flexible. Different approaches to cost estimation should be explored and comparisons of existing models made with emphasis on reproducibility of results. Auditing models also need to be strengthened and further developed. The SafeArchive system and other bit-level auditing practices could be connected to the NDSA Levels of Preservation work to help organizations determine and validate the costs of scaling different auditing schemes. Around both topics, research needs to address multiple storage models: locally stored data, distributed preservation networks, data cooperatives, cloud storage, brokered cloud storage systems and hybrid systems need to be addressed in cost models and auditing practices so that organizations can make informed cost-effective digital preservation decisions.

=====''Research in Curriculum Development''=====

=====''Theoretical Framework''=====
(3-6 Year horizon) ["helen"]
1. Information valuation/selection. Models for estimating future private & public value of information.
2. Models for estimating future risks

=====''Information Equivalence''=====
(3-6 year) [''Jefferson'']: Significant properties, fingerprints, authenticity

iv. preservation at scale (3-6 year): [''Jefferson'']
1. Preserving 'big data' -- storage scale
2. preserving high-velocity/dynamic
3. Scalable models for information provenance, equivalence, and quality
4. Information valuation and portfolio management
5. Privacy & confidentiality @ scale

=====''Policy Research''=====
(3-6 year): ["Micah"]
1.Trust engineering, trust frameworks

=====''Education Workforce Development Research''=====
(3-6 year) [''Helen'']
=====''Evidence-Based for Preservation Methodologies & Policies''=====
(Cross-Cutting/10 years/Grand Challenge) ["Micah"]
1. experimental: labs/testbeds/field experiments
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful results with simulation of long time periods.
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test plans.
• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g., computer science, materials science
2. observational: random sampling/systematic trend/coverage
3. computational: replicable theoretically grounded computer models
4. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to test research results and implement effective strategies from the research lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized knowledge and skills to specific problems

'''Start input from S&P Working Group on research'''
* Findability and discoverability of content
* Large scale integration of emulation into delivery (connect to work done internationally)
* Format migration testing
* Integration of emulation and migration (hybrid approach)
* How do we leverage tools and practices in the digital forensics community (and other fields)?
'''End input from S&P Working Group on research'''

Research Priorities References:
* www.safearhive.org
* http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/ndsa-levels-of-digital-preservation-release-candidate-one/

===Infrastructure Development===

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.
--[[NDSA:User:Micah altman|Micah altman]] 18:31, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

ii.Examples:

• Trends in data protection standards

• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation strategy

• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

'''Start input from Digital Content group'''
>>file system - linear tape file system (transport between tape, into cloud)

We were thinking about passing it to you for consideration in your section as it doesn't feel contenty, it feels more infrastructurey (to us at least, who admittedly don't fully understand what the issue is :)

Gail Truman was the one who'd brought it up, and she forwarded some additional details, below. I think Bradley Daigle also discussed this on our call, but he's not responded to a request yet for more details.
'''End input from Digital Content group'''
'''Start input from S&P Working Group on 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
** Shared tool development or reusing tools developed by other communities
* 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 tools are available to do things like package and annotate content (i.e., in lieu of PDF/A-3)
* Storage concerns at scale.
* Tools for risk assessment or other archive management tasks (e.g. preservation planning)
'''End input from S&P Working Group on infrastructure'''

===Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices===
i. 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.

ii.Examples:

• Need for models for licensing old software for long term virtualization

• Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives

• Development for policies around crowdsourcing as part of digital preservation life cycle

• Expanded use of machine readable licensing for data under long term preservation

'''Raw notes from S&P Working Group:'''
* 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
* International efforts and leveraging other preservation groups
* Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation publication as a reference
* Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives
** Findings from the staffing survey (needs gaps, characteristics of needed staff)
* What are the barriers to hiring qualified staff? Is it training? Budget? Finding people?
* Collection of position descriptions that people could use as models.
* How do we convince management that digital preservation is important and deserves resources?
* Audit and certification
* Scope of what we’re responsible for as practitioners has been broadening (data management,...) Also at different levels (department, institution, community)
* Role of disciplinary repositories (how does our organization’s repository fit into the network of repositories?)
* Changing rules for compliance

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-26T15:07:02Z

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Mgal: /* Policy Research */

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Mgal: /* Introduction */

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Mgal: /* Section topics */

Draft Outline

==Introduction==

a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

i. What the document is

1. inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work

2. observations of the joint leadership group

3. evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year

ii. What the document is not intended to be

1. a directive to working groups

2. prescriptive

3. Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.

iii. Hoped for impact

b. Description of the NDSA and its goals

i. How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals

c. Intended audience

i. NDSA members

1. inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans

ii. Wider digital preservation community

d. Authored by the joint leadership group

==Section topics ==
a. Trends in Digital Content

i. Emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the digital preservation community. Special focus on content themes as they address the interests and needs of the collecting organizations.

b. Research Priorities

i. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to test research results and implement effective strategies from the research lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized knowledge and skills to specific problems

ii.Examples:

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful results with simulation of long time periods.

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test plans.

• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g., computer science, materials science

c. Infrastructure Development

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.

ii.Examples:

• Trends in data protection standards

• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation strategy

• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

d. Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
i. 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.

ii.Examples:

• Need for models for licensing old software for long term virtualization

• Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives

• Development for policies around crowdsourcing as part of digital preservation life cycle

• Expanded use of machine readable licensing for data under long term preservation

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:Coordinating Committee

2013-02-05T20:52:25Z

Mgal: /* 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship */

== Members ==
'''Academic''' 
[[NDSA:Micah Altman]], Harvard University, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Helen Tibbo]], University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, term ends 2014 
[[NDSA:Tyler Walters]], Virginia Tech, term ends 2013 
'''Commercial Content''' 
[[NDSA:John Spencer]], BMS/Chace, term ends 2014 
'''Federal Government''' 
[[NDSA:Blane Dessy]], FLICC, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Meg Phillips]], NARA, term ends 2015 
'''Nonprofit''' 
[[NDSA:Kate Wittenberg]], Portico, term ends 2014 
'''State Government''' 
[[NDSA:Jim Corridan]], Indiana Commission on Public Records and Council of State Archivists, term ends 2015 
[[NDSA:Amy Rudersdorf]], State Library of North Carolina, Department of Cultural Resources, term ends 2014

== Meetings ==
[[NDSA:2013 Jan Regular Meeting]], 9 January 
[[NDSA:2012 Q4 Transitional Meeting]], 12 December 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Special Meeting|2012 Q4 Special Meeting]], 17 October 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Meeting|2012 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 12 September 
[[NDSA:2012 Q2 Meeting|2012 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 24 July 
[[NDSA:2012 Q1 Meeting|2012 Q1 Regular Meeting]], 29-30 March 
[[NDSA:2011 Q4 Meeting|2011 Q4 Regular Meeting]], 13 December 
[[NDSA:2011 Q3 Teleconference|2011 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 20 September 
[[NDSA:2011 Q2 Meeting|2011 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 19 July

== Work Plan ==
[[NDSA:Media:2012-2013_NDSA_Work_Plan.doc|NDSA Work Plan]]

== 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship==
[[NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline]]

[[NDSA:Submitted Comments]]

[[NDSA:Media:2014NationalAgendaforDigitalStewardship.doc|2014 Agenda Planning Document]]

== Marketing Materials ==
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Front.pdf|NDSA Postcard (front)]] 
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Back.pdf|NDSA Postcard (back)]]
== 2012 Elections Candidates ==
[[File:NDSA_CC_Candidates-2013.pdf]]

NDSA:Coordinating Committee

2013-02-05T20:52:08Z

Mgal: /* 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship */

== Members ==
'''Academic''' 
[[NDSA:Micah Altman]], Harvard University, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Helen Tibbo]], University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, term ends 2014 
[[NDSA:Tyler Walters]], Virginia Tech, term ends 2013 
'''Commercial Content''' 
[[NDSA:John Spencer]], BMS/Chace, term ends 2014 
'''Federal Government''' 
[[NDSA:Blane Dessy]], FLICC, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Meg Phillips]], NARA, term ends 2015 
'''Nonprofit''' 
[[NDSA:Kate Wittenberg]], Portico, term ends 2014 
'''State Government''' 
[[NDSA:Jim Corridan]], Indiana Commission on Public Records and Council of State Archivists, term ends 2015 
[[NDSA:Amy Rudersdorf]], State Library of North Carolina, Department of Cultural Resources, term ends 2014

== Meetings ==
[[NDSA:2013 Jan Regular Meeting]], 9 January 
[[NDSA:2012 Q4 Transitional Meeting]], 12 December 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Special Meeting|2012 Q4 Special Meeting]], 17 October 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Meeting|2012 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 12 September 
[[NDSA:2012 Q2 Meeting|2012 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 24 July 
[[NDSA:2012 Q1 Meeting|2012 Q1 Regular Meeting]], 29-30 March 
[[NDSA:2011 Q4 Meeting|2011 Q4 Regular Meeting]], 13 December 
[[NDSA:2011 Q3 Teleconference|2011 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 20 September 
[[NDSA:2011 Q2 Meeting|2011 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 19 July

== Work Plan ==
[[NDSA:Media:2012-2013_NDSA_Work_Plan.doc|NDSA Work Plan]]

== 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship==
[[NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline]]

[[NDSA:Media:2014NationalAgendaforDigitalStewardship.doc|2014 Agenda Planning Document]]

[[NDSA:Submitted Comments]]

== Marketing Materials ==
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Front.pdf|NDSA Postcard (front)]] 
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Back.pdf|NDSA Postcard (back)]]
== 2012 Elections Candidates ==
[[File:NDSA_CC_Candidates-2013.pdf]]

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-05T20:50:44Z

Mgal: /* Section topics */

Draft Outline

==Introduction==

a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

i. What the document is

1. inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work

2. observations of the joint leadership group

3. evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year

ii. What the document is not intended to be

1. a directive to working groups

2. prescriptive

3. Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.

iii. Hoped for impact

b. Description of the NDSA and its goals

i. How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals

c. Intended audience

i. NDSA members

1. inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans

ii. Wider digital preservation community

d. Authored by the joint leadership group

==Section topics ==
a. Trends in Digital Content
i. Emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the digital preservation community. Special focus on content themes as they address the interests and needs of the collecting organizations.

b. Research Priorities
i. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to test research results and implement effective strategies from the research lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized knowledge and skills to specific problems

ii.Examples:

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful results with simulation of long time periods.

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test plans.

• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g., computer science, materials science

c. Infrastructure Development

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.

ii.Examples:

• Trends in data protection standards

• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation strategy

• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

d. Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
i. 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.

ii.Examples:

• Need for models for licensing old software for long term virtualization

• Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives

• Development for policies around crowdsourcing as part of digital preservation life cycle

• Expanded use of machine readable licensing for data under long term preservation

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-05T20:40:14Z

Mgal: /* Section topics */

Draft Outline

==Introduction==

a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

i. What the document is

1. inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work

2. observations of the joint leadership group

3. evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year

ii. What the document is not intended to be

1. a directive to working groups

2. prescriptive

3. Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.

iii. Hoped for impact

b. Description of the NDSA and its goals

i. How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals

c. Intended audience

i. NDSA members

1. inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans

ii. Wider digital preservation community

d. Authored by the joint leadership group

==Section topics ==
a. Trends in Digital Content
i. Emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the digital preservation community. Special focus on content themes as they address the interests and needs of the collecting organizations.

b. Research Priorities
i. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to test research results and implement effective strategies from the research lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized knowledge and skills to specific problems

ii.Examples:

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful results with simulation of long time periods.

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test plans.

• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g., computer science, materials science

c. Infrastructure Development

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.

ii.Examples:

• Trends in data protection standards

• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation strategy

• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

d. Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
i. 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.

ii.Examples:

• Need for models for licensing old software for long term virtualization

• Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives

• Development for policies around crowdsourcing as part of digital preservation life cycle

• Expanded use of machine readable licensing for data under long term preservation

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-05T20:39:42Z

Mgal: /* Section topics */

Draft Outline

==Introduction==

a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

i. What the document is

1. inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work

2. observations of the joint leadership group

3. evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year

ii. What the document is not intended to be

1. a directive to working groups

2. prescriptive

3. Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.

iii. Hoped for impact

b. Description of the NDSA and its goals

i. How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals

c. Intended audience

i. NDSA members

1. inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans

ii. Wider digital preservation community

d. Authored by the joint leadership group

==Section topics ==
a. Trends in Digital Content
i. Emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the digital preservation community. Special focus on content themes as they address the interests and needs of the collecting organizations.

b. Research Priorities
i. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to test research results and implement effective strategies from the research lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized knowledge and skills to specific problems

ii.Examples:

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful results with simulation of long time periods.

• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test plans.

• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g., computer science, materials science

c. Infrastructure Development

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.

ii.Examples:

• Trends in data protection standards

• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation strategy

• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

d. Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
i. 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.

ii.Examples:

• Need for models for licensing old software for long term virtualization

• Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation initiatives

• Development for policies around crowdsourcing as part of digital preservation life cycle

• Expanded use of machine readable licensing for data under long term preservation

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-05T20:37:08Z

Mgal:

Draft Outline

==Introduction==

a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

i. What the document is

1. inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work

2. observations of the joint leadership group

3. evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key emerging issues for the year

ii. What the document is not intended to be

1. a directive to working groups

2. prescriptive

3. Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals or opinions.

iii. Hoped for impact

b. Description of the NDSA and its goals

i. How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals

c. Intended audience

i. NDSA members

1. inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational work plans

ii. Wider digital preservation community

d. Authored by the joint leadership group

==Section topics ==
a. Trends in Digital Content
i. Emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the
digital preservation community. Special focus on content themes as they
address the interests and needs of the collecting organizations.

b. Research Priorities
i. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to
test research results and implement effective strategies from the research
lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized
knowledge and skills to specific problems
ii.Examples:
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful
results with simulation of long time periods.
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test
plans.
• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g.,
computer science, materials science

c. Infrastructure Development

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected
structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure
of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.
ii.Examples:
• Trends in data protection standards
• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation
strategy
• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

d. Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
i. 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.
ii.Examples:
• Need for models for licensing old software for long term virtualization
• Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation
initiatives
• Development for policies around crowdsourcing as part of digital
preservation life cycle
• Expanded use of machine readable licensing for data under long term
preservation

==Conclusion==
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-05T20:34:37Z

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Draft Outline
I.
Introduction
a. Description of the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
i. What the document is
1. inspiration for the planning of digital preservation work
2. observations of the joint leadership group
3. evaluation of the state of digital preservation activity and key
emerging issues for the year
ii.
What the document is not intended to be
1. a directive to working groups
2. prescriptive
3. Not intended to replace any organizational efforts, planning, goals
or opinions.
iii.
Hoped for impact
b. Description of the NDSA and its goals
i. How the Agenda furthers NDSA goals
c. Intended audience
i. NDSA members
1. inform and inspire individual, working group, and organizational
work plans
ii.
Wider digital preservation community
d. Authored by the joint leadership group
II.
Section topics
a. Trends in Digital Content
i. Emerging content types, formats, or challenges that are of interest to the
digital preservation community. Special focus on content themes as they
address the interests and needs of the collecting organizations.

b. Research Priorities
i. Research in a lab or test-bed environment, with a focus on methods to
test research results and implement effective strategies from the research
lab or test-bed. Frameworks that allow people to apply their specialized
knowledge and skills to specific problems
ii.Examples:
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that can provide useful
results with simulation of long time periods.
• Methodologies for digital preservation research that provide reliable test
plans.
• Methodologies that combine aspects of different research areas (e.g.,
computer science, materials science

c. Infrastructure Development

i. Infrastructure can be generally defined as the set of interconnected
structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure
of development. This includes both physical and institutional elements.
ii.Examples:
• Trends in data protection standards
• Best practices for using cloud concepts within a digital preservation
strategy
• Cost-benefit analysis techniques for infrastructure planning

d. Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
i. 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.
ii.Examples:
• Need for models for licensing old software for long term virtualization
• Need for creation of more dedicated FTEs to staff digital preservation
initiatives
• Development for policies around crowdsourcing as part of digital
preservation life cycle
• Expanded use of machine readable licensing for data under long term
preservation
Conclusion
a. Possible ways to engage with the topics and issues detailed in the agenda

NDSA:Submitted Comments

2013-02-05T20:33:33Z

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Comment #1:

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

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

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

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

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

NDSA:Coordinating Committee

2013-02-05T20:33:04Z

Mgal: /* 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship */

== Members ==
'''Academic''' 
[[NDSA:Micah Altman]], Harvard University, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Helen Tibbo]], University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, term ends 2014 
[[NDSA:Tyler Walters]], Virginia Tech, term ends 2013 
'''Commercial Content''' 
[[NDSA:John Spencer]], BMS/Chace, term ends 2014 
'''Federal Government''' 
[[NDSA:Blane Dessy]], FLICC, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Meg Phillips]], NARA, term ends 2015 
'''Nonprofit''' 
[[NDSA:Kate Wittenberg]], Portico, term ends 2014 
'''State Government''' 
[[NDSA:Jim Corridan]], Indiana Commission on Public Records and Council of State Archivists, term ends 2015 
[[NDSA:Amy Rudersdorf]], State Library of North Carolina, Department of Cultural Resources, term ends 2014

== Meetings ==
[[NDSA:2013 Jan Regular Meeting]], 9 January 
[[NDSA:2012 Q4 Transitional Meeting]], 12 December 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Special Meeting|2012 Q4 Special Meeting]], 17 October 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Meeting|2012 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 12 September 
[[NDSA:2012 Q2 Meeting|2012 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 24 July 
[[NDSA:2012 Q1 Meeting|2012 Q1 Regular Meeting]], 29-30 March 
[[NDSA:2011 Q4 Meeting|2011 Q4 Regular Meeting]], 13 December 
[[NDSA:2011 Q3 Teleconference|2011 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 20 September 
[[NDSA:2011 Q2 Meeting|2011 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 19 July

== Work Plan ==
[[NDSA:Media:2012-2013_NDSA_Work_Plan.doc|NDSA Work Plan]]

== 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship==
[[NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline]]

[[NDSA:Media:2014NationalAgendaforDigitalStewardship.doc|2014 Agenda]]

[[NDSA:Submitted Comments]]

== Marketing Materials ==
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Front.pdf|NDSA Postcard (front)]] 
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Back.pdf|NDSA Postcard (back)]]
== 2012 Elections Candidates ==
[[File:NDSA_CC_Candidates-2013.pdf]]

NDSA:Coordinating Committee

2013-02-05T20:32:54Z

Mgal:

== Members ==
'''Academic''' 
[[NDSA:Micah Altman]], Harvard University, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Helen Tibbo]], University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, term ends 2014 
[[NDSA:Tyler Walters]], Virginia Tech, term ends 2013 
'''Commercial Content''' 
[[NDSA:John Spencer]], BMS/Chace, term ends 2014 
'''Federal Government''' 
[[NDSA:Blane Dessy]], FLICC, term ends 2013 
[[NDSA:Meg Phillips]], NARA, term ends 2015 
'''Nonprofit''' 
[[NDSA:Kate Wittenberg]], Portico, term ends 2014 
'''State Government''' 
[[NDSA:Jim Corridan]], Indiana Commission on Public Records and Council of State Archivists, term ends 2015 
[[NDSA:Amy Rudersdorf]], State Library of North Carolina, Department of Cultural Resources, term ends 2014

== Meetings ==
[[NDSA:2013 Jan Regular Meeting]], 9 January 
[[NDSA:2012 Q4 Transitional Meeting]], 12 December 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Special Meeting|2012 Q4 Special Meeting]], 17 October 
[[NDSA:2012 Q3 Meeting|2012 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 12 September 
[[NDSA:2012 Q2 Meeting|2012 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 24 July 
[[NDSA:2012 Q1 Meeting|2012 Q1 Regular Meeting]], 29-30 March 
[[NDSA:2011 Q4 Meeting|2011 Q4 Regular Meeting]], 13 December 
[[NDSA:2011 Q3 Teleconference|2011 Q3 Regular Meeting]], 20 September 
[[NDSA:2011 Q2 Meeting|2011 Q2 Regular Meeting]], 19 July

== Work Plan ==
[[NDSA:Media:2012-2013_NDSA_Work_Plan.doc|NDSA Work Plan]]

== 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship==
[[NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline]]
[[NDSA:Media:2014NationalAgendaforDigitalStewardship.doc|2014 Agenda]]
[[NDSA:Submitted Comments]]

== Marketing Materials ==
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Front.pdf|NDSA Postcard (front)]] 
[[NDSA:Media:NDSA_Postcard_Back.pdf|NDSA Postcard (back)]]
== 2012 Elections Candidates ==
[[File:NDSA_CC_Candidates-2013.pdf]]