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NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 24, 2015

2015-03-24T19:00:00Z

Trow: /* New Project Idea: Digital Preservation Infrastructure Tours */

NDSA Infrastructure Call

==In attendance:==
(Please edit your name and affiliation if you like)
#Sybil Schaffer, Rockefeller Archives
#Euan Cochrane, Yale
#Karen Cariani, WGBH
#Emily Reynolds, IMLS
#Max Echart, Bentley Historical Library
#Leah Prescott, Georgetown law center
#David Wilcox, DuraSpace
#Emily, Library Company of Philadelphia
#Sarah, Minnesota historical society

==Points Discussed==

===Status of migration document===
We think this should be good to go. Karen and Trevor will dig it up and talk with LC folks about posting a draft version of it to The Signal.

===Future Presentations===
#Max offered to present on a project he is working on involving integrating Archivematica, archivespace dSpace. (Slated for May 26th)
#Sybil volunteered to talk about chronopolis (Slated for June 29th)
#Future interest in rescheduling a BWFLA emulation as a service presentation
#Future interest in scheduling an Academic Preservation Trust presentation

=== Wiki Cleanup ===
Leah volunteered to take a look at cleaning up the wiki.

=== New Project Idea: Digital Preservation Infrastructure Tours ===
To frame a series of presentations and interviews that would be published on The Signal we establish a set of questions for presenters/interviewies to respond to. The idea is to get people from different organizations to describe the tools and systems they are using and explain what things are working well together and where their pain points are. Trevor volunteered to sketch out the questions for these interviews/presentations which are [[NDSA:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkFjbw3jKfqLosKwWONlILMxicjVLza5KdEEhFnhPgk/edit?usp=sharing | available here ]].

NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 24, 2015

2015-03-24T18:58:55Z

Trow: /* New Project Idea: Digital Preservation Infrastructure Tours */

NDSA Infrastructure Call

==In attendance:==
(Please edit your name and affiliation if you like)
#Sybil Schaffer, Rockefeller Archives
#Euan Cochrane, Yale
#Karen Cariani, WGBH
#Emily Reynolds, IMLS
#Max Echart, Bentley Historical Library
#Leah Prescott, Georgetown law center
#David Wilcox, DuraSpace
#Emily, Library Company of Philadelphia
#Sarah, Minnesota historical society

==Points Discussed==

===Status of migration document===
We think this should be good to go. Karen and Trevor will dig it up and talk with LC folks about posting a draft version of it to The Signal.

===Future Presentations===
#Max offered to present on a project he is working on involving integrating Archivematica, archivespace dSpace. (Slated for May 26th)
#Sybil volunteered to talk about chronopolis (Slated for June 29th)
#Future interest in rescheduling a BWFLA emulation as a service presentation
#Future interest in scheduling an Academic Preservation Trust presentation

=== Wiki Cleanup ===
Leah volunteered to take a look at cleaning up the wiki.

=== New Project Idea: Digital Preservation Infrastructure Tours ===
To frame a series of presentations and interviews that would be published on The Signal we establish a set of questions for presenters/interviewies to respond to. The idea is to get people from different organizations to describe the tools and systems they are using and explain what things are working well together and where their pain points are. Trevor volunteered to sketch out the questions for these interviews/presentations which are [[NDSA: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkFjbw3jKfqLosKwWONlILMxicjVLza5KdEEhFnhPgk/edit?usp=sharing | available here ]].

NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 24, 2015

2015-03-24T18:48:47Z

Trow: Created page with 'NDSA Infrastructure Call ==In attendance:== (Please edit your name and affiliation if you like) #Sybil Schaffer, Rockefeller Archives #Euan Cochrane, Yale #Karen Cariani, WGBH …'

NDSA Infrastructure Call

==In attendance:==
(Please edit your name and affiliation if you like)
#Sybil Schaffer, Rockefeller Archives
#Euan Cochrane, Yale
#Karen Cariani, WGBH
#Emily Reynolds, IMLS
#Max Echart, Bentley Historical Library
#Leah Prescott, Georgetown law center
#David Wilcox, DuraSpace
#Emily, Library Company of Philadelphia
#Sarah, Minnesota historical society

==Points Discussed==

===Status of migration document===
We think this should be good to go. Karen and Trevor will dig it up and talk with LC folks about posting a draft version of it to The Signal.

===Future Presentations===
#Max offered to present on a project he is working on involving integrating Archivematica, archivespace dSpace. (Slated for May 26th)
#Sybil volunteered to talk about chronopolis (Slated for June 29th)
#Future interest in rescheduling a BWFLA emulation as a service presentation
#Future interest in scheduling an Academic Preservation Trust presentation

=== Wiki Cleanup ===
Leah volunteered to take a look at cleaning up the wiki.

=== New Project Idea: Digital Preservation Cribs ===
To frame a series of presentations and interviews that would be published on The Signal we establish a set of questions for presenters/interviewies to respond to. The idea is to get people from different organizations to describe the tools and systems they are using and explain what things are working well together and where their pain points are. Trevor volunteered to sketch out the questions for these interviews/presentations which are available here.

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

2015-03-24T18:39:18Z

Trow: /* Meeting Schedule and Minutes */

== Statement of Purpose ==
The Infrastructure Working Group works to build a community of sharing information and best practices about the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities for the long term preservation of digital content.

== Call Information ==
For our monthly calls here is the call in information:
* Call-in number: 877-299-5123
* If we are using the screensharing that can be found at https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/digitalpreservation

==Current Work Objectives==
*[[NDSA:Open Source Software]] Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development and sharing of open source tools and other software that enable digital preservation.
*[[NDSA:Discussions on Preservation Storage Topics]]: Summaries and salient points from the WG's bi-weekly open conversation on detailed aspects of preservation storage. Topics discussed: encryption, (others forthcoming).
* Storage Survey: For the first year the group's primary project was an exploration of member's approaches to storage. We began with an exploration of cloud providers, see [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]. From there we developed a set of [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]] which 10 members responded to. From there we developed and implemented a survey of the members: [[NDSA:Media:Draft_storage_survey_v3.pdf|Draft Storage Survey]]. The final report and a series of blog posts on this project are still being finalized.

==Potential Future Projects==
*Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development of computer forensic tools that enable digital preservation.
*Encourage communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 24, 2015]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Oct 28, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 29, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 25, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 28, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, April 24, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 27, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, February 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, January 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, December 20, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, November 22, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, October 19, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, September 21, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, August 24, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, July 28, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, June 8, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, April 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 15, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Feb 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, Feb 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Friday, Dec 10, 2010]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, November 22, 2010]]

==Participation==
Participation in the Infrastructure [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Karen Cariani and [mailto:trow@loc.gov Trevor Owens] to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

[[NDSA:Terms#Action_Team|Action Teams]] may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Thursday, Oct 28, 2014

2014-10-28T18:57:56Z

Trow: Created page with '12 members in attendance. ==Roster== *Trevor, Library of Congress *Karen, WGBH *Max, Grand Valley State *Nicole, Library Company of Philadelphia *Carol, University of Minnesota…'

12 members in attendance.

==Roster==
*Trevor, Library of Congress
*Karen, WGBH
*Max, Grand Valley State
*Nicole, Library Company of Philadelphia
*Carol, University of Minnesota
*Martin, Chicago State University
*Jane, LC
*Mitch, NY Philharmonic
*Sybibl, RAC
*Gail, Truman Tech
*Sara, Minnesota Historical
*Euan, Yale

==Agenda==
#Presentation Calls
#Migration/moving data document discussion
#Update on Ongoing Projects
#Next Call: POWRR Project, Skip December Call

==Discussion==
===Potential Future Presentations===
Group briefly recapped the last presentation, in September Bob Horton from the IMLS presented and hosted a discussion about the National Leadership Grants program. The event was well attended and illustrates continued interested in these kinds of calls. Several suggestions were offered for potential future presentations. Karen, mentioned the Presto Center, Euan suggested bwfla's emulation platform, it was also suggested that it would be useful to have Jane provide an overview of the recent NDIIPP storage architecture meeting presentations. Along with this, there was interest in learning about AP Trust, from an organization working as a DPN node and about the role and function of private LOCKSS networks. The group will follow up to identify points of contact for these projects and find times on future calls to host these presentations/discussions.
===Migrations Document===
There was good discussion of tweaks and revisions to the document. The two most substantive points involve changing the language from "migration" to "moving" to further clarify that this is not about format migration. The other suggestion was to include a "Further resources" section to the document, something that could link out to the fixity document and other relevant resources and places to look for tools. Trevor volunteered to take a pass at drafting and adding that in advance of circulating the document one more time before moving it forward as a draft for public comment.

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

2014-10-28T18:46:18Z

Trow: /* Meeting Schedule and Minutes */

== Statement of Purpose ==
The Infrastructure Working Group works to build a community of sharing information and best practices about the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities for the long term preservation of digital content.

== Call Information ==
For our monthly calls here is the call in information:
* Call-in number: 877-299-5123
* If we are using the screensharing that can be found at https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/digitalpreservation

==Current Work Objectives==
*[[NDSA:Open Source Software]] Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development and sharing of open source tools and other software that enable digital preservation.
*[[NDSA:Discussions on Preservation Storage Topics]]: Summaries and salient points from the WG's bi-weekly open conversation on detailed aspects of preservation storage. Topics discussed: encryption, (others forthcoming).
* Storage Survey: For the first year the group's primary project was an exploration of member's approaches to storage. We began with an exploration of cloud providers, see [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]. From there we developed a set of [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]] which 10 members responded to. From there we developed and implemented a survey of the members: [[NDSA:Media:Draft_storage_survey_v3.pdf|Draft Storage Survey]]. The final report and a series of blog posts on this project are still being finalized.

==Potential Future Projects==
*Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development of computer forensic tools that enable digital preservation.
*Encourage communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Oct 28, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 29, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 25, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 28, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, April 24, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 27, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, February 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, January 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, December 20, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, November 22, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, October 19, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, September 21, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, August 24, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, July 28, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, June 8, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, April 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 15, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Feb 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, Feb 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Friday, Dec 10, 2010]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, November 22, 2010]]

==Participation==
Participation in the Infrastructure [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Karen Cariani and [mailto:trow@loc.gov Trevor Owens] to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

[[NDSA:Terms#Action_Team|Action Teams]] may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Tuesday, July 29, 2014

2014-07-29T19:03:21Z

Trow:

Return to [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group#Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas | Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas]]

==Roster==
*Trevor, Library of Congress
*Karen, WGBH
*Dave, WGBH
*Nicole, Library Company of Philadelphia
*Alec, GPO
*Martin, Chicago State University
*Shawn, MSU
*Jane, LC
*Mitch, NY Philharmonic
*David, Dura Space
*Michelle, LC
*Chris, Muller Media

==Agenda==
#Introductions/Re-Introductions
#Discussion of Digital Preservation 2014 Conference
#Update on Ongoing Projects
#Next Call: Planning

==Action Items==
*Review revisions to get Coordinating Committee to sign off on Fixity Check doc as a NDSA publication - Trevor
*Distribute draft migration doc for discussion on next Infrastructure call.

==Discussion==
===Conference===
We briefly discussed what participants found to be the most noteworthy pieces of the meeting. interest in the Interpares presentation on preservation metadata informing work at The Library Company. Sessions about web archives, afternoon of second day. Suggestion that the issues in evaluating the quality of web archives. Lots of interest in automated ways to figure out the quality of a site. Break out session on the preservica infrastructure, lead to a lot of good discussion exploring the quality of cloud providers and reliability.

===Update on NDSA Storage Survey report===
The data is all collected, we are waiting for initial results

===Future directions: Migration Project===
There is an initial draft document of the migration project. It will be shared for discussion in advance of next months call to work through it.

===Ideas for Future talks/Presentations on Infrastructure Calls===
*PrestoCentre: Netherlands consortium EU folks working on AV digital preservation.
*Ask Andrea to do a Levels Self-Assessment Project: Have Andrea present how she did her self-assessment and share that with folks on the call to work through their own self-assessment. Identify low level boxes that are consistently not being covered.
*Powrr Project Presentation: Has been doing levels talks/presentations.
*MOMA repository project: Design and approach to setting up repo for born digital art.
*DPN update: learn more about the update on where they are at.
*IMLS Digital Platform: Listening session with the NDSA infrastructure working group.
*SHARE: ARL group, notification system. Captures research products out of academia.

NDSA:Tuesday, July 29, 2014

2014-07-29T19:02:54Z

Trow: initial draft of notes

Return to [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group#Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas | Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas]]

==Roster==
*Trevor, Library of Congress
*Karen, WGBH
*Dave, WGBH
*Nicole, Library Company of Philadelphia
*Alec, GPO
*Martin, Chicago State University
*Shawn, MSU
*Jane, LC
*Mitch, NY Philharmonic
*David, Dura Space
*Michelle, LC
*Chris, Muller Media

==Agenda==
#Introductions/Re-Introductions
#Discussion of Digital Preservation 2014 Conference
#Update on Ongoing Projects
#Next Call: Planning

==Action Items==
*Review revisions to get Coordinating Committee to sign off on Fixity Check doc as a NDSA publication - Trevor
*Distribute draft migration doc for discussion on next Infrastructure call.

==Discussion==
===Conference===
We breifly discussed what participants found to be the most noteworthy pieces of the meeting. interest in the Interpares presentation on preservation metadata informing work at The Library Company. Sessions about web archives, afternoon of second day. Suggestion that the issues in evaluating the quality of web archives. Lots of interest in automated ways to figure out the quality of a site. Break out session on the preservica infrastructure, lead to a lot of good discussion exploring the quality of cloud providers and reliability.

===Update on NDSA Storage Survey report===
The data is all collected, we are waiting for initial results

===Future directions: Migration Project===
There is an initial draft document forthe migration project. It will be shared for discussion in advance of next months call to work through it.

===Ideas for Future talks/Presentations on Infrastructure Calls===
*PrestoCentre: Netherlands consortium EU folks working on AV digital preservation.
*Ask Andrea to do a Levels Self-Assessment Project: Have Andrea present how she did her self-assessment and share that with folks on the call to work through their own self-assessment. Identify low level boxes that are consistently not being covered.
*Powrr Project Presentation: Has been doing levels talks/presentations.
*MOMA repository project: Design and approach to setting up repo for born digital art.
*DPN update: learn more about the update on where they are at.
*IMLS Digital Platform: Listening session with the NDSA infrastructure working group.
*SHARE: ARL group, notification system. Captures research products out of academia.

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

2014-07-29T18:57:01Z

Trow: /* Meeting Schedule and Minutes */

== Statement of Purpose ==
The Infrastructure Working Group works to build a community of sharing information and best practices about the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities for the long term preservation of digital content.

== Call Information ==
For our monthly calls here is the call in information:
* Call-in number: 877-299-5123
* If we are using the screensharing that can be found at https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/digitalpreservation

==Current Work Objectives==
*[[NDSA:Open Source Software]] Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development and sharing of open source tools and other software that enable digital preservation.
*[[NDSA:Discussions on Preservation Storage Topics]]: Summaries and salient points from the WG's bi-weekly open conversation on detailed aspects of preservation storage. Topics discussed: encryption, (others forthcoming).
* Storage Survey: For the first year the group's primary project was an exploration of member's approaches to storage. We began with an exploration of cloud providers, see [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]. From there we developed a set of [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]] which 10 members responded to. From there we developed and implemented a survey of the members: [[NDSA:Media:Draft_storage_survey_v3.pdf|Draft Storage Survey]]. The final report and a series of blog posts on this project are still being finalized.

==Potential Future Projects==
*Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development of computer forensic tools that enable digital preservation.
*Encourage communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 29, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 25, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 28, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, April 24, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 27, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, February 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, January 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, December 20, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, November 22, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, October 19, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, September 21, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, August 24, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, July 28, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, June 8, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, April 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 15, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Feb 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, Feb 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Friday, Dec 10, 2010]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, November 22, 2010]]

==Participation==
Participation in the Infrastructure [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Karen Cariani and [mailto:trow@loc.gov Trevor Owens] to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

[[NDSA:Terms#Action_Team|Action Teams]] may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

2014-07-29T18:56:40Z

Trow: /* Call Information */

== Statement of Purpose ==
The Infrastructure Working Group works to build a community of sharing information and best practices about the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities for the long term preservation of digital content.

== Call Information ==
For our monthly calls here is the call in information:
* Call-in number: 877-299-5123
* If we are using the screensharing that can be found at https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/digitalpreservation

==Current Work Objectives==
*[[NDSA:Open Source Software]] Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development and sharing of open source tools and other software that enable digital preservation.
*[[NDSA:Discussions on Preservation Storage Topics]]: Summaries and salient points from the WG's bi-weekly open conversation on detailed aspects of preservation storage. Topics discussed: encryption, (others forthcoming).
* Storage Survey: For the first year the group's primary project was an exploration of member's approaches to storage. We began with an exploration of cloud providers, see [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]. From there we developed a set of [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]] which 10 members responded to. From there we developed and implemented a survey of the members: [[NDSA:Media:Draft_storage_survey_v3.pdf|Draft Storage Survey]]. The final report and a series of blog posts on this project are still being finalized.

==Potential Future Projects==
*Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development of computer forensic tools that enable digital preservation.
*Encourage communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 25, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 28, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, April 24, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 27, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, February 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, January 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, December 20, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, November 22, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, October 19, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, September 21, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, August 24, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, July 28, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, June 8, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, April 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 15, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Feb 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, Feb 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Friday, Dec 10, 2010]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, November 22, 2010]]

==Participation==
Participation in the Infrastructure [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Karen Cariani and [mailto:trow@loc.gov Trevor Owens] to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

[[NDSA:Terms#Action_Team|Action Teams]] may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014

2014-05-27T18:57:42Z

Trow: /* Future directions: Migration Project */

Return to [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group#Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas | Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas]]

==Roster==
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
*Karen Cariani, WGBH
*Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center
*Joe Pawletko, New York University
*Emily Shaw, University of Iowa
*Cal Lee, UNC
*Kevin McCarthy, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
*Martin Kong, Chicago State University
*Carol Kussmann, University of Minnesota Libraries

==Agenda==
#Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet
#Update on open source digital preservation tools project
#Update on NDSA Storage Survey report
#Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project
#Future directions: Migration Project

==Action Items==
*Further final review of the Fixity Check document before Trevor submits it to the Coordinating Committee to sign off on as a NDSA publication - Trevor
*Work up short thematic blog post resulting from the themes in the OSS interviews
*Contact Trevor (trow@loc.gov) if you would like to be involved in the new Migration "Packing List" project idea.

==Discussion==
===Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet===
In discussion of the Fixity Check fact sheet, Emily and Carol both noted that the draft had already been useful in educating/informing their colleagues, so that's a success. Otherwise, there wasn't much of any further issues raised. The only substantive revision to the document since the public draft is some refinement of issues relating to how file systems like ZFS incorporate checking at fixed intervals. If there are any further tweaks or issues related to the document send them on to Trevor.

===Update on open source digital preservation tools project===
There wasn't really considerable interest in doing too much work here. So the work done already can be easily turned into a short blog post that brings together some of the thematic points in the interviews and draws further attention to them.

===Update on NDSA Storage Survey report===
There is a little bit of final follow up to check some issues with the response rate but the group will begin interpreting the data in the next few weeks with the intention of producing a report on it thereafter. Several have already volunteered to draft the report, but anyone else interested should email Trevor to be added to the group.

===Future directions: Migration Project===
Karen asked the group what they would like to tackle as a next project and suggested the idea of a kind of check list, or packing list if you will, for migration. Switching from one system to another system. Or best practices. (Hardware, software, storage systems from soup to nuts.) Kevin brought up examples of issues in the work of the National Archives migrating presidential records from one stack of technologies to another and another case, moving images from census to another.Kinda like a "packing list," things to do before and after to make sure you have a successful move. How to make sure you aren’t losing any data and metadata. Issues in access from one system to another. Importantly, this would not focus on normalization, that would be out of scope, but just focusing on moving fixed digital materials and metadata forward. Trevor will check with the standards group for further participation. Cal noted that there is a "ISO 13008:2012 – Information and documentation – Digital records conversion and migration process (PDF)" which might be useful for consulting. All together a group was formed, with Trevor, Karen, Kevin and Leah to work up an initial take on what something like this might look like to share back with the group on a future call.

===Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project===
Title: The Olive Executable Archive
Date: June 24th, 2:00 EST
Join the NDSA Infrastructure working group for a presentation and discussion of the Olive Archive project from Dan Ryan the project's curator of executable content. Briefly, from their website: "Olive is a collaborative project seeking to establish a robust ecosystem for long-term preservation of software, games, and other executable content. Born at Carnegie Mellon University, Olive addresses the current gap in preservation technology by providing a curated environment for the preservation and distribution of executable content." https://olivearchive.org/ Dan will give an overview of the project, the technologies it uses, and lead a discussion of it's next steps.

NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014

2014-05-27T18:55:51Z

Trow: /* =Update on NDSA Storage Survey report */

Return to [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group#Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas | Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas]]

==Roster==
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
*Karen Cariani, WGBH
*Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center
*Joe Pawletko, New York University
*Emily Shaw, University of Iowa
*Cal Lee, UNC
*Kevin McCarthy, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
*Martin Kong, Chicago State University
*Carol Kussmann, University of Minnesota Libraries

==Agenda==
#Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet
#Update on open source digital preservation tools project
#Update on NDSA Storage Survey report
#Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project
#Future directions: Migration Project

==Action Items==
*Further final review of the Fixity Check document before Trevor submits it to the Coordinating Committee to sign off on as a NDSA publication - Trevor
*Work up short thematic blog post resulting from the themes in the OSS interviews
*Contact Trevor (trow@loc.gov) if you would like to be involved in the new Migration "Packing List" project idea.

==Discussion==
===Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet===
In discussion of the Fixity Check fact sheet, Emily and Carol both noted that the draft had already been useful in educating/informing their colleagues, so that's a success. Otherwise, there wasn't much of any further issues raised. The only substantive revision to the document since the public draft is some refinement of issues relating to how file systems like ZFS incorporate checking at fixed intervals. If there are any further tweaks or issues related to the document send them on to Trevor.

===Update on open source digital preservation tools project===
There wasn't really considerable interest in doing too much work here. So the work done already can be easily turned into a short blog post that brings together some of the thematic points in the interviews and draws further attention to them.

===Update on NDSA Storage Survey report===
There is a little bit of final follow up to check some issues with the response rate but the group will begin interpreting the data in the next few weeks with the intention of producing a report on it thereafter. Several have already volunteered to draft the report, but anyone else interested should email Trevor to be added to the group.

===Future directions: Migration Project===
Karen asked the group what they would like to tackle as a next project and suggested the idea of a kind of check list, or packing list if you will, for migration. Switching from one system to another system. Or best practices. (Hardware, software, storage systems from soup to nuts.) Kevin brought up examples of issues in the work of the National Archives migrating presidential records from one stack of technologies to another and another case, moving images from census to another. ARMA document guidance on migration. Kinda like a packing list. When you are about to undergo a migration you should do these things. How to make sure you aren’t losing any data and metadata. Issues in access and rendering. Not a focus on normalization, that would be out of scope, but just focusing on moving fixed digital materials and metadata forward. (Sub group, Kevin McCarthy signed on, Karen joins in, Trevor). Trevor will check with the standards group for further participation. Cal noted that there is a "ISO 13008:2012 – Information and documentation – Digital records conversion and migration process (PDF)" which might be useful for consulting. All together a group was formed, with Trevor, Karen, Kevin and Leah to work up an initial take on what something like this might look like to share back with the group on a future call.

===Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project===
Title: The Olive Executable Archive
Date: June 24th, 2:00 EST
Join the NDSA Infrastructure working group for a presentation and discussion of the Olive Archive project from Dan Ryan the project's curator of executable content. Briefly, from their website: "Olive is a collaborative project seeking to establish a robust ecosystem for long-term preservation of software, games, and other executable content. Born at Carnegie Mellon University, Olive addresses the current gap in preservation technology by providing a curated environment for the preservation and distribution of executable content." https://olivearchive.org/ Dan will give an overview of the project, the technologies it uses, and lead a discussion of it's next steps.

NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014

2014-05-27T18:55:40Z

Trow: Initital draft, feel free to revise and edit.

Return to [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group#Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas | Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas]]

==Roster==
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
*Karen Cariani, WGBH
*Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center
*Joe Pawletko, New York University
*Emily Shaw, University of Iowa
*Cal Lee, UNC
*Kevin McCarthy, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
*Martin Kong, Chicago State University
*Carol Kussmann, University of Minnesota Libraries

==Agenda==
#Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet
#Update on open source digital preservation tools project
#Update on NDSA Storage Survey report
#Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project
#Future directions: Migration Project

==Action Items==
*Further final review of the Fixity Check document before Trevor submits it to the Coordinating Committee to sign off on as a NDSA publication - Trevor
*Work up short thematic blog post resulting from the themes in the OSS interviews
*Contact Trevor (trow@loc.gov) if you would like to be involved in the new Migration "Packing List" project idea.

==Discussion==
===Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet===
In discussion of the Fixity Check fact sheet, Emily and Carol both noted that the draft had already been useful in educating/informing their colleagues, so that's a success. Otherwise, there wasn't much of any further issues raised. The only substantive revision to the document since the public draft is some refinement of issues relating to how file systems like ZFS incorporate checking at fixed intervals. If there are any further tweaks or issues related to the document send them on to Trevor.

===Update on open source digital preservation tools project===
There wasn't really considerable interest in doing too much work here. So the work done already can be easily turned into a short blog post that brings together some of the thematic points in the interviews and draws further attention to them.

===Update on NDSA Storage Survey report==
There is a little bit of final follow up to check some issues with the response rate but the group will begin interpreting the data in the next few weeks with the intention of producing a report on it thereafter. Several have already volunteered to draft the report, but anyone else interested should email Trevor to be added to the group.

===Future directions: Migration Project===
Karen asked the group what they would like to tackle as a next project and suggested the idea of a kind of check list, or packing list if you will, for migration. Switching from one system to another system. Or best practices. (Hardware, software, storage systems from soup to nuts.) Kevin brought up examples of issues in the work of the National Archives migrating presidential records from one stack of technologies to another and another case, moving images from census to another. ARMA document guidance on migration. Kinda like a packing list. When you are about to undergo a migration you should do these things. How to make sure you aren’t losing any data and metadata. Issues in access and rendering. Not a focus on normalization, that would be out of scope, but just focusing on moving fixed digital materials and metadata forward. (Sub group, Kevin McCarthy signed on, Karen joins in, Trevor). Trevor will check with the standards group for further participation. Cal noted that there is a "ISO 13008:2012 – Information and documentation – Digital records conversion and migration process (PDF)" which might be useful for consulting. All together a group was formed, with Trevor, Karen, Kevin and Leah to work up an initial take on what something like this might look like to share back with the group on a future call.

===Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project===
Title: The Olive Executable Archive
Date: June 24th, 2:00 EST
Join the NDSA Infrastructure working group for a presentation and discussion of the Olive Archive project from Dan Ryan the project's curator of executable content. Briefly, from their website: "Olive is a collaborative project seeking to establish a robust ecosystem for long-term preservation of software, games, and other executable content. Born at Carnegie Mellon University, Olive addresses the current gap in preservation technology by providing a curated environment for the preservation and distribution of executable content." https://olivearchive.org/ Dan will give an overview of the project, the technologies it uses, and lead a discussion of it's next steps.

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

2014-05-27T18:37:37Z

Trow: /* Meeting Schedule and Minutes */

== Statement of Purpose ==
The Infrastructure Working Group works to build a community of sharing information and best practices about the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities for the long term preservation of digital content.

== Call Information ==
For our monthly calls here is the call in information:
* Call-in number: 866-469-3239
* Participant Access Code: 21408589

==Current Work Objectives==
*[[NDSA:Open Source Software]] Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development and sharing of open source tools and other software that enable digital preservation.
*[[NDSA:Discussions on Preservation Storage Topics]]: Summaries and salient points from the WG's bi-weekly open conversation on detailed aspects of preservation storage. Topics discussed: encryption, (others forthcoming).
* Storage Survey: For the first year the group's primary project was an exploration of member's approaches to storage. We began with an exploration of cloud providers, see [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]. From there we developed a set of [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]] which 10 members responded to. From there we developed and implemented a survey of the members: [[NDSA:Media:Draft_storage_survey_v3.pdf|Draft Storage Survey]]. The final report and a series of blog posts on this project are still being finalized.

==Potential Future Projects==
*Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development of computer forensic tools that enable digital preservation.
*Encourage communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 27, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Mar 25, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 28, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, April 24, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 27, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, February 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, January 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, December 20, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, November 22, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, October 19, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, September 21, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, August 24, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, July 28, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, June 8, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, April 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 15, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Feb 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, Feb 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Friday, Dec 10, 2010]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, November 22, 2010]]

==Participation==
Participation in the Infrastructure [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Karen Cariani and [mailto:trow@loc.gov Trevor Owens] to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

[[NDSA:Terms#Action_Team|Action Teams]] may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Main Page

2013-08-29T13:40:57Z

Trow: /* Cross-Working Group Projects */

[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:Content Interview Series]]''' on the Signal blog share stories of content being preserved by NDSA members.

==='''[[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 preservation|Levels of 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:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013

2013-08-28T14:24:01Z

Trow:

'''Next Call: Sep 17th, 2:00 PM Eastern, Cal Lee present/discuss the Bitcurator project
'''
On the Call:
*Emily Shaw, U of Iowa
*Karen Cariani, WGBH
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
*Dave McCarran, WGBH
*Joe Pawletko, NYU
*Michael Levy, Holocaust Museum
*Cal Lee, UNC
*Michelle, Library of Congress
*Michelle Paolillo, Cornell
*Carol Kussman, Minnesota Historical Society

==National Agenda for Digital Stewardship==
If you haven’t given it a read, take a few minutes to skim it. In particular, these are the four areas identified for work in infrastructure. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/documents/2014NationalAgenda.pdf

*File Format Action Plan Development
*Interoperability and Portability in Storage Architectures
*Integration of Digital Forensics Tools
*Ensuring Content Integrity

If you have any ideas for small things we could do as a group to contribute to these areas, please feel free to pitch your idea to the list or bring it to the next call.

==NDSA levels Ad-Hoc group:==
The NDSA levels cross-working group team has a few next stages to their work. They are working on one explores and documents uses for the NDSA levels and the other focus on working up short sets of guidance and information for meeting the requirements of each box in the chart. There was also a question as to if this group should be made into a defacto working group or if it should persist as a cross working group team. This is likely best passed off to the coordinating committee to think through. There was also interest in a potential new project to think about how to test/validate the ideas in the levels.

http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Levels_of_preservation

==Next steps on Open Source Project: ==
Karen and Joe volunteered to take a look at the four open source software project interviews we have done so far (listed below) and think about useful ways to build on this work. It might be about synthesizing something that cuts across them? Or summarizing some of the similarities and differences in the approaches? Or just talking through what each identify as the unique contributions of open source to digital preservation.
*Hydra’s Open Source Approach: An Interview with Tom Cramer http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/05/hydras-open-source-approach-an-interview-with-tom-cramer/
*Islandora’s Open Source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/03/islandoras-open-source-ecosystem-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-mark-leggott/
*Archivematica and the Open Source Mindset for Digital Preservation Systems http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/10/archivematica-and-the-open-source-mindset-for-digital-preservation-systems/
*Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/open-source-software-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-bram-van-der-werf-of-the-open-planets-foundation/

==Fixity Check Chart: Fixity in Practice:==
There was considerable interest in thinking about fixity in practice or fixity check chart project. In discussion, it sounds like there are two distinct but related activities in here that we need to sort out. Most of the participants on the call were interested in either or both of these issues.

#Getting started with fixity practices. This could, for example, work through the each of the 4 fixity levels in the NDSA levels of digital preservation. The goal here would be to work through how to get started, different kinds of approaches and tools you can use to establish your workflows.
#Fixity trade offs decision tool. Given different systems, different kinds of content, different scales of content etc. there should be different approaches to the frequency of fixity checking. There is interest in developing some kind of grid, or decision tree that could help orgs decide the best approach to how frequently to check the fixity of their content.

NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013

2013-08-28T14:22:44Z

Trow: draft notes

'''Next Call: Sep 17th, 2:00 PM Eastern, Cal Lee present/discuss the Bitcurator project
'''
On the Call:
*Emily Shaw, U of Iowa
*Karen Cariani, WGBH
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
*Dave McCarran, WGBH
*Joe Pawletko, NYU
*Michael Levy, Holocaust Museum
*Cal Lee, UNC
*Michelle, Library of Congress
*Michelle Paolillo, Cornell
*Carol Kussman, Minnesota Historical Society

==National Agenda for Digital Stewardship==
If you haven’t given it a read, take a few minutes to skim it. In particular, these are the four areas identified for work in infrastructure.

*File Format Action Plan Development
*Interoperability and Portability in Storage Architectures
*Integration of Digital Forensics Tools
*Ensuring Content Integrity

If you have any ideas for small things we could do as a group to contribute to these areas, please feel free to pitch your idea to the list or bring it to the next call.

==NDSA levels Ad-Hoc group:==
The NDSA levels cross-working group team has a few next stages to their work. They are working on one explores and documents uses for the NDSA levels and the other focus on working up short sets of guidance and information for meeting the requirements of each box in the chart. There was also a question as to if this group should be made into a defacto working group or if it should persist as a cross working group team. This is likely best passed off to the coordinating committee to think through. There was also interest in a potential new project to think about how to test/validate the ideas in the levels.

http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Levels_of_preservation

==Next steps on Open Source Project: ==
Karen and Joe volunteered to take a look at the four open source software project interviews we have done so far (listed below) and think about useful ways to build on this work. It might be about synthesizing something that cuts across them? Or summarizing some of the similarities and differences in the approaches? Or just talking through what each identify as the unique contributions of open source to digital preservation.
*Hydra’s Open Source Approach: An Interview with Tom Cramer http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/05/hydras-open-source-approach-an-interview-with-tom-cramer/
*Islandora’s Open Source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/03/islandoras-open-source-ecosystem-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-mark-leggott/
*Archivematica and the Open Source Mindset for Digital Preservation Systems http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/10/archivematica-and-the-open-source-mindset-for-digital-preservation-systems/
*Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/open-source-software-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-bram-van-der-werf-of-the-open-planets-foundation/

==Fixity Check Chart: Fixity in Practice:==
There was considerable interest in thinking about fixity in practice or fixity check chart project. In discussion, it sounds like there are two distinct but related activities in here that we need to sort out. Most of the participants on the call were interested in either or both of these issues.

#Getting started with fixity practices. This could, for example, work through the each of the 4 fixity levels in the NDSA levels of digital preservation. The goal here would be to work through how to get started, different kinds of approaches and tools you can use to establish your workflows.
#Fixity trade offs decision tool. Given different systems, different kinds of content, different scales of content etc. there should be different approaches to the frequency of fixity checking. There is interest in developing some kind of grid, or decision tree that could help orgs decide the best approach to how frequently to check the fixity of their content.

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

2013-08-28T14:15:59Z

Trow: /* Meeting Schedule and Minutes */

== Statement of Purpose ==
The Infrastructure Working Group works to build a community of sharing information and best practices about the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities for the long term preservation of digital content.

== Call Information ==
For our monthly calls here is the call in information:
* Call-in number: 866-469-3239
* Participant Access Code: 21408589

==Current Work Objectives==
*[[NDSA:Open Source Software]] Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development and sharing of open source tools and other software that enable digital preservation.
*[[NDSA:Discussions on Preservation Storage Topics]]: Summaries and salient points from the WG's bi-weekly open conversation on detailed aspects of preservation storage. Topics discussed: encryption, (others forthcoming).
* Storage Survey: For the first year the group's primary project was an exploration of member's approaches to storage. We began with an exploration of cloud providers, see [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]. From there we developed a set of [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]] which 10 members responded to. From there we developed and implemented a survey of the members: [[NDSA:Media:Draft_storage_survey_v3.pdf|Draft Storage Survey]]. The final report and a series of blog posts on this project are still being finalized.

==Potential Future Projects==
*Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development of computer forensic tools that enable digital preservation.
*Encourage communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 28, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, April 24, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 27, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, February 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, January 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, December 20, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, November 22, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, October 19, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, September 21, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, August 24, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, July 28, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, June 8, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, April 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 15, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Feb 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, Feb 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Friday, Dec 10, 2010]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, November 22, 2010]]

==Participation==
Participation in the Infrastructure [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Karen Cariani and [mailto:trow@loc.gov Trevor Owens] to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

[[NDSA:Terms#Action_Team|Action Teams]] may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Levels of preservation

2013-08-27T18:57:30Z

Trow:

==Current Project Plans==
'''Resources for using the levels''': The group thought it would be useful to take on a one blog post per box blog project. So ideally, we would do five posts (one for each of the five boxes in Level 1) over the next six months or so. Each post would be 1) a short explanation 2) include links to resources and 3) make a few brief comments on some of the tradeoffs and issues at hand in tackling the particular box.

'''Levels in use project:''' Plan is to get interviews or guest posts from different users of the levels (already have one on USGS and TRC Canada) we identified 6 additional groups to follow up with. If you hear of other folks using the levels send them along to the list and we can figure out if they are game to do an interview or guest post. The idrea would be to get a whole slew of these usage examples and then write up a essay/paper on how they are being used with links to resources for how folks could use them in the same fashion.

==Original Project Plan: Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc 3.0],
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#'''Completed'''Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#'''Completed'''Share on the blog for public comment
#'''Completed'''Solicit targeted feedback at conferences and on list servs.
#'''Completed'''Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#'''Completed'''Consider including a short glossary
#'''Completed'''Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#'''Completed'''Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project
# Creating an ongoing series focused on use case for the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation
# Putting together guidance and resources for each box in the grid. Likely as blog posts for The Signal.

==Get Involved:==
Email Trevor Owens (trow@loc.gov) if you would like to get involved.

==NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary==

[[NDSA:NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary]]

The Levels of Preservation activity is working to provide basic digital preservation guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation. The NDSA glossary strives to provide a common language for NDSA members to communicate about the levels work and should also be useful as a general digital stewardship glossary.

This glossary evolved out of the work of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Working Group which has spent several years identifying current practices and policies for the preservation of digital material at the Library. The LC work was passed along to the Levels group in October 2012 and the first public version was released in February 2013.

See [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/the-release-of-the-ndsa-digital-stewardship-glossary/ LC Signal blog post] for more background.

NDSA:Levels of preservation

2013-08-27T18:57:16Z

Trow:

==Current Project Plans==
Resources for using the levels: The group thought it would be useful to take on a one blog post per box blog project. So ideally, we would do five posts (one for each of the five boxes in Level 1) over the next six months or so. Each post would be 1) a short explanation 2) include links to resources and 3) make a few brief comments on some of the tradeoffs and issues at hand in tackling the particular box.

Levels in use project: Plan is to get interviews or guest posts from different users of the levels (already have one on USGS and TRC Canada) we identified 6 additional groups to follow up with. If you hear of other folks using the levels send them along to the list and we can figure out if they are game to do an interview or guest post. The idrea would be to get a whole slew of these usage examples and then write up a essay/paper on how they are being used with links to resources for how folks could use them in the same fashion.

==Original Project Plan: Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc 3.0],
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#'''Completed'''Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#'''Completed'''Share on the blog for public comment
#'''Completed'''Solicit targeted feedback at conferences and on list servs.
#'''Completed'''Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#'''Completed'''Consider including a short glossary
#'''Completed'''Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#'''Completed'''Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project
# Creating an ongoing series focused on use case for the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation
# Putting together guidance and resources for each box in the grid. Likely as blog posts for The Signal.

==Get Involved:==
Email Trevor Owens (trow@loc.gov) if you would like to get involved.

==NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary==

[[NDSA:NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary]]

The Levels of Preservation activity is working to provide basic digital preservation guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation. The NDSA glossary strives to provide a common language for NDSA members to communicate about the levels work and should also be useful as a general digital stewardship glossary.

This glossary evolved out of the work of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Working Group which has spent several years identifying current practices and policies for the preservation of digital material at the Library. The LC work was passed along to the Levels group in October 2012 and the first public version was released in February 2013.

See [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/the-release-of-the-ndsa-digital-stewardship-glossary/ LC Signal blog post] for more background.

NDSA:Levels of preservation

2013-08-27T18:50:23Z

Trow: /* Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation */

==Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc 3.0],
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#'''Completed'''Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#'''Completed'''Share on the blog for public comment
#'''Completed'''Solicit targeted feedback at conferences and on list servs.
#'''Completed'''Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#'''Completed'''Consider including a short glossary
#'''Completed'''Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#'''Completed'''Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project
# Creating an ongoing series focused on use case for the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation
# Putting together guidance and resources for each box in the grid. Likely as blog posts for The Signal.

==Get Involved:==
Email Trevor Owens (trow@loc.gov) if you would like to get involved.

==NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary==

[[NDSA:NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary]]

The Levels of Preservation activity is working to provide basic digital preservation guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation. The NDSA glossary strives to provide a common language for NDSA members to communicate about the levels work and should also be useful as a general digital stewardship glossary.

This glossary evolved out of the work of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Working Group which has spent several years identifying current practices and policies for the preservation of digital material at the Library. The LC work was passed along to the Levels group in October 2012 and the first public version was released in February 2013.

See [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/the-release-of-the-ndsa-digital-stewardship-glossary/ LC Signal blog post] for more background.

NDSA:Levels of preservation

2013-08-27T18:48:17Z

Trow: /* Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation */

==Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc 3.0],
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#'''Completed'''Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#'''Completed'''Share on the blog for public comment
#'''Completed'''Solicit targeted feedback at conferences and on list servs.
#'''Completed'''Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#'''Completed'''Consider including a short glossary
#'''Completed'''Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#'''Completed'''Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project

'''Dissemination of Knowledge:''' Once finished we can publish this as a short report on digitalpreservation.gov, put up a blog post announcing it on the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, and group members can send out an announcement about it to various listservs.

'''Signifiers of Success:''' Completed document. Ideally, an indication of broader success would be seeing this document referred to in a range of plans and guidance.

==NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary==

[[NDSA:NDSA Digital Stewardship Glossary]]

The Levels of Preservation activity is working to provide basic digital preservation guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation. The NDSA glossary strives to provide a common language for NDSA members to communicate about the levels work and should also be useful as a general digital stewardship glossary.

This glossary evolved out of the work of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Working Group which has spent several years identifying current practices and policies for the preservation of digital material at the Library. The LC work was passed along to the Levels group in October 2012 and the first public version was released in February 2013.

See [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/the-release-of-the-ndsa-digital-stewardship-glossary/ LC Signal blog post] for more background.

NDSA:2014 National Agenda Outline

2013-02-26T20:49:47Z

Trow: /* Infrastructure Development */ Ideas added by Trevor Owens

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

===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===
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:Levels of preservation

2013-01-14T18:42:30Z

Trow: /* Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation */

==Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc 3.0],
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#'''Completed'''Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#'''Completed'''Share on the blog for public comment
#Solicit targeted feedback at conferences and on list servs.
#Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#Consider including a short glossary
#'''Completed'''Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project

'''Dissemination of Knowledge:''' Once finished we can publish this as a short report on digitalpreservation.gov, put up a blog post announcing it on the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, and group members can send out an announcement about it to various listservs.

'''Signifiers of Success:''' Completed document. Ideally, an indication of broader success would be seeing this document referred to in a range of plans and guidance.

NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 01-07-13

2013-01-08T14:16:13Z

Trow: /* In Attendance */

NDSA Innovation Working Group Call
Jan 7, 2012 2pm-3pm

==In Attendance==
*Jim Corridan, Indiana Commission on Public Records
*Ben Fino Radin, Rhizome
*Mark Matienzo, Yale
*Doug Reside, NYPL
*Ben Vershbow, NYPL
*Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council
*Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

==Action Items==
*Next call: Monday March 4th, 2013 2pm-3pm EST
*NYC group (Doug, Jefferson & Ben and Ben) are going to meet in Jan or Feb to refine ideas about experimenting with setting up a SWAT (software and workstations for antiquated technology)space in NYC.
*LoC folks will get the innovation awards submission page up in Jan
*Everyone should feel free to continue suggesting and signing up for interview ideas on the doc
*Trevor volunteered to draft up a model kickstarter assignment (see below) Mark, Jefferson and Jane volunteered to give feedback on it.

==Innovation Insights Interview Series==
*The public Google with details on the interview series is located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVLg5yBBkzNa5moriTaKB7w8MwEYnEmYJ5eYGXf9EN8/edit
* Also check the wiki page re the interview project [[NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation]]

==Kickstarter==
*Is there a place or utility for us to be offering pre-kickstarter advice or guidance to projects we like?
*We should put together a list of resources or use cases about what makes a successful project -- something identifying the "significant properties" of successful innovative projects.
*Also, we should consult with Outreach to get their insight on the Kickstarter project and what they have learned.
*Lastly, we can find specific projects and then feature them in interviews and/or follow them afterwards.

==SWAT==
*Here is Jefferson's blog post talking about the OCLC reports: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/10/get-your-bits-off-old-storage-media/
*Here is the specific OCLC SWAT paper: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/2012-08.pdf
*OCLC is trying to put together a pilot project to set up the parameters of a "service model" for matching vintage computing museums/clubs/communities and LAMs.
*Jefferson is interested in the idea from the angle of creating a consortial, community-based, use-oriented SWAT (software and workstations for antiquated technology) space where LAMs can book time/technicians to get bits off old media. It would be priced at cost-recovery or as a member service.
*NDSA Innovation can play an advisory role in helping outline/define the model.

==Events==
*NDSA will be hosting CurateCamp-like outreach/education/meet-up style events around the country.
*This is more a project of Outreach, but Jefferson will host one in NYC in early 2013.
*Ping Jane, Trevor, or Jefferson if you are interested in more details or also hosting an event.

==Innovation Awards==
*Handed out at the annual NDIIPP/NDSA meeting and winner received funded travel and hotel to attend and accept their award
*Check the awards webpage for categories: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html
*Need a team of 5 people. Sheila, Rachel, & Jefferson will be on team. We mentioned maybe having a past winner also be on the team. We will solicit the rest from Innovation and then from NDSA-All.
*Process is lightweight (3-4 calls), just repeat last year. Launch via a Signal post and some listserv/twitters bombing in late February or so. Winners selected in May to give winners time to plan for late July travel to conference.

==Working Group Logistics==
*'''Wiki''': If you need wiki access (or a p/w re-set) email Trevor (trow@loc.gov) and he can take care of it.
*'''Calls''': We will have bi-monthly calls on the first Monday of the month at 2pm EST. Next working group call is Monday March 4th, 2013 2pm-3pm EST.
*On off months we may schedule action team calls or full Working Group calls for special events such as discussions/presentations with funders, technologists, and others working on innovative projects.

NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 01-07-13

2013-01-08T14:16:03Z

Trow: initial draft

NDSA Innovation Working Group Call
Jan 7, 2012 2pm-3pm

==In Attendance==
*Jim Corridan, Indiana Commission on Public Records
*Ben Fino Radin, Rhizome
*Mark Matienzo, Yale
*Doug Reside, NYPL
*Ben Vershbow, NYPL
*Mitch Brodsky, NY Philharmonic
*Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council
*Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

==Action Items==
*Next call: Monday March 4th, 2013 2pm-3pm EST
*NYC group (Doug, Jefferson & Ben and Ben) are going to meet in Jan or Feb to refine ideas about experimenting with setting up a SWAT (software and workstations for antiquated technology)space in NYC.
*LoC folks will get the innovation awards submission page up in Jan
*Everyone should feel free to continue suggesting and signing up for interview ideas on the doc
*Trevor volunteered to draft up a model kickstarter assignment (see below) Mark, Jefferson and Jane volunteered to give feedback on it.

==Innovation Insights Interview Series==
*The public Google with details on the interview series is located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVLg5yBBkzNa5moriTaKB7w8MwEYnEmYJ5eYGXf9EN8/edit
* Also check the wiki page re the interview project [[NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation]]

==Kickstarter==
*Is there a place or utility for us to be offering pre-kickstarter advice or guidance to projects we like?
*We should put together a list of resources or use cases about what makes a successful project -- something identifying the "significant properties" of successful innovative projects.
*Also, we should consult with Outreach to get their insight on the Kickstarter project and what they have learned.
*Lastly, we can find specific projects and then feature them in interviews and/or follow them afterwards.

==SWAT==
*Here is Jefferson's blog post talking about the OCLC reports: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/10/get-your-bits-off-old-storage-media/
*Here is the specific OCLC SWAT paper: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/2012-08.pdf
*OCLC is trying to put together a pilot project to set up the parameters of a "service model" for matching vintage computing museums/clubs/communities and LAMs.
*Jefferson is interested in the idea from the angle of creating a consortial, community-based, use-oriented SWAT (software and workstations for antiquated technology) space where LAMs can book time/technicians to get bits off old media. It would be priced at cost-recovery or as a member service.
*NDSA Innovation can play an advisory role in helping outline/define the model.

==Events==
*NDSA will be hosting CurateCamp-like outreach/education/meet-up style events around the country.
*This is more a project of Outreach, but Jefferson will host one in NYC in early 2013.
*Ping Jane, Trevor, or Jefferson if you are interested in more details or also hosting an event.

==Innovation Awards==
*Handed out at the annual NDIIPP/NDSA meeting and winner received funded travel and hotel to attend and accept their award
*Check the awards webpage for categories: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html
*Need a team of 5 people. Sheila, Rachel, & Jefferson will be on team. We mentioned maybe having a past winner also be on the team. We will solicit the rest from Innovation and then from NDSA-All.
*Process is lightweight (3-4 calls), just repeat last year. Launch via a Signal post and some listserv/twitters bombing in late February or so. Winners selected in May to give winners time to plan for late July travel to conference.

==Working Group Logistics==
*'''Wiki''': If you need wiki access (or a p/w re-set) email Trevor (trow@loc.gov) and he can take care of it.
*'''Calls''': We will have bi-monthly calls on the first Monday of the month at 2pm EST. Next working group call is Monday March 4th, 2013 2pm-3pm EST.
*On off months we may schedule action team calls or full Working Group calls for special events such as discussions/presentations with funders, technologists, and others working on innovative projects.

NDSA:Innovation Working Group

2013-01-08T14:05:37Z

Trow: /* Meeting Schedule and Minutes */

== Statement of Purpose ==
By encouraging and sharing innovative methods of digital preservation practices and technologies, we plan to distribute, document, and share emerging concepts, while conducting and guiding research and development with engaged partners to find solutions where none exist.

== Current Action Team Projects ==

===[[NDSA:Annual Awards Team|Annual Recognition Awards]]===
This team is planning the first slate of annual awards, to be given out at next years July meeting. The group will pick the specific set of awards we want to accept nominations for, decide on how we want to do nominations, and presumably, make the decisions on who will win the first set of awards.
For more information, see this [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/digital-preservations-got-talent-awarding-innovation-and-accomplishment/ blog post] on the awards project.

===[[NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation|Insights Interview series for Digital Preservation Blog]]===
Group members conduct interviews with individuals inside and outside of the organizations and specialties currently participating in the NDSA. Examples of potential related fields include but are not limited to, digital archeology/forensics, virtualization of programming environments, material sciences, and humanities computing. The interviews are published to the Library of Congress’ digital preservation blog. For an example of what this group does, see [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/insights-interview-with-david-rosenthal the first interview with David Rosenthal].

===[[NDSA:Summer of code|NDSA Presence on Google Summer of Code]]===
Google summer of code connects student developers with mentor’s at organizations to write code for various open source software projects. This action team is focused on planning a coordinated presence for NDSA member open source software projects on Google’s Summer of Code project.

===[[NDSA:Storage ping|Storage Ping Technical Challenge]]===
The idea behind this project is to plan a ping service that could check on many of the features of preservation storage systems. This could include, average latency, bit integrity, up time for files, etc. The group will work on putting together a plan for how to implement this and the kinds of light weight polices that would need to be put in place to run such a technical benchmark.

See [[NDSA:Future projects]] for areas for the group to explore at a later date.

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

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
Innovation Working Group Call: Jan 7th, 2012 from 2:00pm-3:00pm [[NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 01-07-13]]

Innovation Working Group Call: November 5th, 2012 from 2:00pm-3:00pm [[NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 11-05-12]]

Innovation Working Group Call: May 29th, 2012 from 1:00-2:00 PM [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 05-29-12]]

Innovation Working Group Call: April 30th, 2012 from 1:00-2:00 PM [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 04-30-12]]

Innovation Working Group Call: March 26, 2012 from 10:00am-11:00am - [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 03-26-12]]

Innovation Working Group Call: February 27, 2012 from 12:00pm-1:00pm - [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 02-27-12]]

Innovation Working Group Call: January 27, 2012 from 3:00pm-4:00pm - [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 01-27-12]]

Innovation Working Group Call: December 16, 2011 from 3:00pm-3:30pm - [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 12-16-11]]

Awards Action Team Kick Off: November 21, 2011 from 3:00pm - 4:00pm - [[NDSA:Monday, November 21, 2011]]

Innovation Working Group Call: November 18, 2011 from 1:00pm – 2:00 PM ET - [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 11-18-11]]

Action Team Kick Off: March 8, 2010 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET - [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 03-8-11]]

Working Group Charter Discussion: November 5, 2010 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET - [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 12-7-10]]

==Practices==
*Listserv: for ongoing communication
*Web site: for public dissemination of group’s work
*Monthly conference call: for coordinating ongoing activities
*Wiki: our common work space

==Participation==
Participation in the Innovation [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Micah Beck or Jane Mandelbaum to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

[[NDSA:Terms#Action_Team|Action Team]] may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012

2012-09-25T20:13:17Z

Trow: Drafted

'''On the Call:'''

* Nicholas Taylor
* Joe Pawletko
* Trevor Owens
* Dean Farrell
* Carol Kussmann
* Jefferson Bailey
* Shawn Nicholson
* Dave MacCarn
* Karen Carienni

'''To Do:'''

Start discussing questions that we want Peter Van Garderen of Archivematica to respond to on our October call.

==1. Talking about the open source presentations ==
Jefferson, Karen and Trevor started scheduling these after setting up the activity charter. http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Open_Source_Presentation_Series

To kick these off, we have lined up having Peter Van Garderen of Archivematica present and participate on their approach to OSS in the time scheduled for our October call. We are working on lining up additiaonal talks from folks working on Islandora, Fedora, and the Foss4lib project. There was discussion of also having someone from Omeka come and talk about how they approach OSS development for work with digital collections.

In preperation for next months call, please start discussing questions that you would like Peter Van Garderen of Archivematica to respond to on our October call. One great question, or set of questions we started working out was around interoperability and moving in and out of a given system. Let’s flesh these questions out over the list.

==2. Reviewing and soliciting additional feedback for the levels of digital preservation draft document==
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/09/help-define-levels-for-digital-preservation-request-for-public-comments/

There were two great sets of questions in this discussion, largely focused on clarifying some of the ambiguity around two terms. One focused on identifying what we mean by “storage system.” There was consensus on the call to get this term to be further clarified in the level one box one box and for the need of a glossery that could wax a bit more sophisticated on what does and dosen’t count for this term. The second question was about what exactly the chart means by “transformitive acts” related to fixity checks. Clearly it’s not about reading files, but it is a bit ambiguious if this would count for a situation when a file is copied from one system to another.

==3. More and more questions are finding their way up on the digital-preservation tag on Stack Libraries.==
If you haven’t already, you should start following the questions, and start posting any digital preservation questions that occur to you. http://libraries.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-preservation

NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation

2012-09-25T19:19:58Z

Trow:

==Insights Interview Blog Post Series Charter==
===One Sentence Description===
As part of the Innovation Working Group’s mandate to spur innovation, this project will develop a plan to bring individuals outside of the organizations and specialties currently participating in the NDSA, but whose work may be relevant to digital preservation, into conversation with the field.
===Point of Contact===
To get involved in this work, contact Trevor Owens at trow@loc.gov

===Statement of the Problem and Goals for Addressing the Problem===
Innovation requires an influx of new ideas and experience. Digital Preservation is a field that touches a number of industries and can be expanded by the work of related fields including but are not limited to, digital archeology/forensics, virtualization of programming environments, material sciences, and humanities computing. This team's work is expected to include hosting a set of interviews, dialogs, or talks which could be shared on a blog, as a webinar series, or through some other communications platform. Insights in digital stewardship is an attempt by the Innovation Working Group of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) to engage with individuals working on projects or in areas that preservation and discovery and access of digital materials. In this project, we are engaging in interactions over email which are then posted for the community to comment on and discuss. The goal of these conversations is to generate innovative ideas for NDSA members and engage new communities in conversations about digital preservation and stewardship.

==Completed Interviews==
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/09/exhibiting-video-games-an-interview-with-smithsonians-georgina-goodlander/ Exhibiting Video Games: An interview with Smithsonian’s Georgina Goodlander] interview about the technical details of this exhibition of born digital art.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/09/sharing-theft-and-creativity-deviantarts-share-wars-and-how-an-online-arts-community-thinks-about-their-work/ Sharing, Theft, and Creativity: deviantART’s Share Wars and How an Online Arts Community Thinks About Their Work] Interview about online ethnographic research exploring how artists think about their rights to copy and share their work.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/08/digital-strategy-catches-up-with-the-present-an-interview-with-smithsonians-michael-edson/ Digital Strategy Catches up With the Present: An Interview with Smithsonian’s Michael Edson] discussion of how digital strategy should work for cultural heritage organizations.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/telling-tales-joe-lambert-from-the-center-for-digital-storytelling/ Telling Tales: Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Storytelling] discussion of various projects at the Center for Digital Storytelling.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/life-saving-the-national-software-reference-library/ Life-Saving: The National Software Reference Library Doug White, of NSRL] interview about this collection.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/open-source-software-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-bram-van-der-werf-of-the-open-planets-foundation/ Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation] well received interview about open source software development for digital preservation.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/galleries-libraries-archives-museums-with-wikipedia-glam-wiki-insights-interview-with-lori-phillip/ Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums with Wikipedia (GLAM-Wiki): Insights Interview with Lori Phillips] Interview about how cultural heritage organizations are partnering with Wikipedia.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/03/sheer-preservation-%E2%80%93-familysearch-and-preserving-the-heritage-of-mankind/ Sheer Preservation – FamilySearch and Preserving the Heritage of Mankind] some background on infrastructure behind FamilySearch.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/02/insights-interview-with-beverly-emmons-lighting-design-preservation-innovator/ Insights Interview with Beverly Emmons, Lighting Design Preservation Innovator] discussion of this increasingly digital component of contemporary theater.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/12/crowdsourcing-the-civil-war-insights-interview-with-nicole-saylor/ Crowdsourcing the Civil War: Insights Interview with Nicole Saylor] This interview explores the development of a crowdsourcing transcription project at the University of Iowa.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/10/interview-with-brett-bobley/ Brett Bobley of the Office for Digital Humanities at the NEH] This interview explores relationships between the digging into data grants and digital stewardship.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/09/toward-a-library-of-virtual-machines-insights-interview-with-vasanth-bala-and-mahadev-satyanarayanan/ Toward a Library of Virtual Machines: Insights interview with Vasanth Bala and Mahadev Satyanarayanan] This interview focuses on a project to create a virtual library of software for emulation.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/insights-interview-with-david-rosenthal/ Interview with David Rosenthal] This interview explores perspectives on software development and problems in digital preservation.

===Strategic Value of Activity===
Publishing these interviews encourages and shares innovative methods of digital preservation practices and technologies and helps inspire new developments.

===Required Resources===
Time of working group members

===Roadmap===
1. Individual or Action Team determines who to ask to be interviewed. 
2. Interview requested and accepted. 
3. Questions refined or developed for that interview -- can be done by individual or with the Action Team. 
4. Questions emailed to interviewee for responses. 
5. Responses edited into an interview blog post. 
6. Edited interview sent to interviewee for review. 
7. Final version published on blog. 

===Dissemination of Knowledge===
The Signal Digital Preservation Blog: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/

===Signifiers of Success and Outcomes===
Success:
* The action team will communicate over email and report their work on the wiki page at:
http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Broadening_and_Networking_the_Field_of_Research_in_Digital_Preservation.
*The action team will also report on their work to members of the Innovation Working Group through periodic group phone calls.
* Completed interviews published at www.digitalpreservation.gov

Outcomes:
NDSA starts talking about and posting about the interviews. The interviews feed innovative approaches to digital preservation challenges.

==Interview Process and Materials==
===Format===
Text: The Innovation Working group will conduct interviews/conversations over email, a wiki, or Google docs and then share the resulting text interviews through some manner of blog or wiki where they will invite conversation from the broader NDSA community. It might be ideal for the Action Team to get the format and process for this down enough that any NDSA member could use them to play host to an interview/conversation and then the Innovation Working Group would put it in the queue.

===Fields and Projects===
*Digital records in medicine. Of particular interest, medical imaging
*Crowdsourcing projects, for example metadata games, Google image labeler, zooniverse. @home projects
*Open access publishing, for example Public Library of Science
*Data visualization and UI designers interested in cultural heritage projects.
*Data mining approaches and tools for scholars, example Voyeur Tools
*digital archeology/forensics,
*virtualization of programming environments
**Goals:
**# Understand management of copies of data spaces.
**# Learn how virtual machines are configured (operating metadata).
*material sciences
*Astronomy
*Video gaming
*Scientific fields that particularly rely on “big data” (e.g., climate modeling)
*U.S. Census.
**Goals:
**# Understand best practices about keeping track of many records that have metadata and data.
**# What digital preservation method(s) are being used?
*Statistics and Mathematical modeling (e.g, sports statistics, economic modeling)

===Introductory Email===

Hello, [name],

We're writing to you as part of a group called the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), convened by the Library of Congress. It 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.

The NDSA has a specific Innovation Working Group formed to investigate innovative practice in digital preservation, and part of this working group's mandate is to reach out to companies and individuals to ask about their digital preservation practices and ideas, in the hope that this survey might inform the challenge as a whole. We'd like to present our survey findings in a report about current practice in Digital Preservation, and your voice is an important part of that.

We're writing to you today to see if you would be willing to be interviewed for a blog series which broadly explores innovation in digital preservation. If so, thank you! You can simply respond to this email and we will send you a short set of questions to respond to for the post.

We'll look forward to hearing from you! And please, feel free to get back to us with any questions about this.

Regards,

For more information on the NDSA and Innovation Working Groups, please visit:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/
http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Innovation_Working_Group

===Guiding Questions===
I had a tough time working up questions that could be general enough to work across all of the diverse fields we have discussed. While this set of questions is very general I would hope that it could serve as the basis to start a conversation which would then involve an additional set of questions that focus in on the particular relevant issues in a given context.
*Can you briefly describe or characterize the field you are working in or the kinds of projects you work on?
*What are the most pressing challenges or hardest problems to solve in this work?
*What do you think is the thing about your field that most outsiders find the most interesting or useful?
*How do people in your field communicate with each other? With people outside your area of interest?
*Does your field deal with digital content (datasets, digital objects, text, audio, video, etc), and how?
*What kind of implications does your project or field have for preservation, access and discovery of digital objects?
*What do you think are the most important things we can learn from your field?
*What do you think your field might contribute to other fields?
*Do you think the challenges and problems in your field will be different in 5 years or 10 years? In the next generation?
*Can you describe innovation in your field and how it happens?
*Based on your work and field what kinds of work would you like to see the digital preservation and stewardship community take on?
*Can you suggest other people who are doing interesting or innovative work that you think might be of interest to the digital preservation community?

NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation

2012-09-24T19:50:43Z

Trow: /* Completed Interviews */

==Insights Interview Blog Post Series Charter==
===One Sentence Description===
As part of the Innovation Working Group’s mandate to spur innovation, this project will develop a plan to bring individuals outside of the organizations and specialties currently participating in the NDSA, but whose work may be relevant to digital preservation, into conversation with the field.
===Point of Contact===
To get involved in this work, contact Trevor Owens at trow@loc.gov

===Statement of the Problem and Goals for Addressing the Problem===
Innovation requires an influx of new ideas and experience. Digital Preservation is a field that touches a number of industries and can be expanded by the work of related fields including but are not limited to, digital archeology/forensics, virtualization of programming environments, material sciences, and humanities computing. This team's work is expected to include hosting a set of interviews, dialogs, or talks which could be shared on a blog, as a webinar series, or through some other communications platform. Insights in digital stewardship is an attempt by the Innovation Working Group of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) to engage with individuals working on projects or in areas that preservation and discovery and access of digital materials. In this project, we are engaging in interactions over email which are then posted for the community to comment on and discuss. The goal of these conversations is to generate innovative ideas for NDSA members and engage new communities in conversations about digital preservation and stewardship.

===Strategic Value of Activity===
Publishing these interviews encourages and shares innovative methods of digital preservation practices and technologies and helps inspire new developments.

===Required Resources===
Time of working group members

===Roadmap===
1. Individual or Action Team determines who to ask to be interviewed. 
2. Interview requested and accepted. 
3. Questions refined or developed for that interview -- can be done by individual or with the Action Team. 
4. Questions emailed to interviewee for responses. 
5. Responses edited into an interview blog post. 
6. Edited interview sent to interviewee for review. 
7. Final version published on blog. 

===Dissemination of Knowledge===
The Signal Digital Preservation Blog: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/

===Signifiers of Success and Outcomes===
Success:
* The action team will communicate over email and report their work on the wiki page at:
http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Broadening_and_Networking_the_Field_of_Research_in_Digital_Preservation.
*The action team will also report on their work to members of the Innovation Working Group through periodic group phone calls.
* Completed interviews published at www.digitalpreservation.gov

Outcomes:
NDSA starts talking about and posting about the interviews. The interviews feed innovative approaches to digital preservation challenges.

==Completed Interviews==
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/09/sharing-theft-and-creativity-deviantarts-share-wars-and-how-an-online-arts-community-thinks-about-their-work/ Sharing, Theft, and Creativity: deviantART’s Share Wars and How an Online Arts Community Thinks About Their Work] Interview about online ethnographic research exploring how artists think about their rights to copy and share their work.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/08/digital-strategy-catches-up-with-the-present-an-interview-with-smithsonians-michael-edson/ Digital Strategy Catches up With the Present: An Interview with Smithsonian’s Michael Edson] discussion of how digital strategy should work for cultural heritage organizations.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/telling-tales-joe-lambert-from-the-center-for-digital-storytelling/ Telling Tales: Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Storytelling] discussion of various projects at the Center for Digital Storytelling.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/life-saving-the-national-software-reference-library/ Life-Saving: The National Software Reference Library Doug White, of NSRL] interview about this collection.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/open-source-software-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-bram-van-der-werf-of-the-open-planets-foundation/ Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation] well received interview about open source software development for digital preservation.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/galleries-libraries-archives-museums-with-wikipedia-glam-wiki-insights-interview-with-lori-phillip/ Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums with Wikipedia (GLAM-Wiki): Insights Interview with Lori Phillips] Interview about how cultural heritage organizations are partnering with Wikipedia.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/03/sheer-preservation-%E2%80%93-familysearch-and-preserving-the-heritage-of-mankind/ Sheer Preservation – FamilySearch and Preserving the Heritage of Mankind] some background on infrastructure behind FamilySearch.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/02/insights-interview-with-beverly-emmons-lighting-design-preservation-innovator/ Insights Interview with Beverly Emmons, Lighting Design Preservation Innovator] discussion of this increasingly digital component of contemporary theater.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/12/crowdsourcing-the-civil-war-insights-interview-with-nicole-saylor/ Crowdsourcing the Civil War: Insights Interview with Nicole Saylor] This interview explores the development of a crowdsourcing transcription project at the University of Iowa.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/10/interview-with-brett-bobley/ Brett Bobley of the Office for Digital Humanities at the NEH] This interview explores relationships between the digging into data grants and digital stewardship.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/09/toward-a-library-of-virtual-machines-insights-interview-with-vasanth-bala-and-mahadev-satyanarayanan/ Toward a Library of Virtual Machines: Insights interview with Vasanth Bala and Mahadev Satyanarayanan] This interview focuses on a project to create a virtual library of software for emulation.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/insights-interview-with-david-rosenthal/ Interview with David Rosenthal] This interview explores perspectives on software development and problems in digital preservation.

==Interview Process and Materials==
===Format===
Text: The Innovation Working group will conduct interviews/conversations over email, a wiki, or Google docs and then share the resulting text interviews through some manner of blog or wiki where they will invite conversation from the broader NDSA community. It might be ideal for the Action Team to get the format and process for this down enough that any NDSA member could use them to play host to an interview/conversation and then the Innovation Working Group would put it in the queue.

===Fields and Projects===
*Digital records in medicine. Of particular interest, medical imaging
*Crowdsourcing projects, for example metadata games, Google image labeler, zooniverse. @home projects
*Open access publishing, for example Public Library of Science
*Data visualization and UI designers interested in cultural heritage projects.
*Data mining approaches and tools for scholars, example Voyeur Tools
*digital archeology/forensics,
*virtualization of programming environments
**Goals:
**# Understand management of copies of data spaces.
**# Learn how virtual machines are configured (operating metadata).
*material sciences
*Astronomy
*Video gaming
*Scientific fields that particularly rely on “big data” (e.g., climate modeling)
*U.S. Census.
**Goals:
**# Understand best practices about keeping track of many records that have metadata and data.
**# What digital preservation method(s) are being used?
*Statistics and Mathematical modeling (e.g, sports statistics, economic modeling)

===Introductory Email===

Hello, [name],

We're writing to you as part of a group called the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), convened by the Library of Congress. It 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.

The NDSA has a specific Innovation Working Group formed to investigate innovative practice in digital preservation, and part of this working group's mandate is to reach out to companies and individuals to ask about their digital preservation practices and ideas, in the hope that this survey might inform the challenge as a whole. We'd like to present our survey findings in a report about current practice in Digital Preservation, and your voice is an important part of that.

We're writing to you today to see if you would be willing to be interviewed for a blog series which broadly explores innovation in digital preservation. If so, thank you! You can simply respond to this email and we will send you a short set of questions to respond to for the post.

We'll look forward to hearing from you! And please, feel free to get back to us with any questions about this.

Regards,

For more information on the NDSA and Innovation Working Groups, please visit:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/
http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Innovation_Working_Group

===Guiding Questions===
I had a tough time working up questions that could be general enough to work across all of the diverse fields we have discussed. While this set of questions is very general I would hope that it could serve as the basis to start a conversation which would then involve an additional set of questions that focus in on the particular relevant issues in a given context.
*Can you briefly describe or characterize the field you are working in or the kinds of projects you work on?
*What are the most pressing challenges or hardest problems to solve in this work?
*What do you think is the thing about your field that most outsiders find the most interesting or useful?
*How do people in your field communicate with each other? With people outside your area of interest?
*Does your field deal with digital content (datasets, digital objects, text, audio, video, etc), and how?
*What kind of implications does your project or field have for preservation, access and discovery of digital objects?
*What do you think are the most important things we can learn from your field?
*What do you think your field might contribute to other fields?
*Do you think the challenges and problems in your field will be different in 5 years or 10 years? In the next generation?
*Can you describe innovation in your field and how it happens?
*Based on your work and field what kinds of work would you like to see the digital preservation and stewardship community take on?
*Can you suggest other people who are doing interesting or innovative work that you think might be of interest to the digital preservation community?

NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation

2012-09-24T17:59:46Z

Trow: /* Completed Interviews */

==Insights Interview Blog Post Series Charter==
===One Sentence Description===
As part of the Innovation Working Group’s mandate to spur innovation, this project will develop a plan to bring individuals outside of the organizations and specialties currently participating in the NDSA, but whose work may be relevant to digital preservation, into conversation with the field.
===Point of Contact===
To get involved in this work, contact Trevor Owens at trow@loc.gov

===Statement of the Problem and Goals for Addressing the Problem===
Innovation requires an influx of new ideas and experience. Digital Preservation is a field that touches a number of industries and can be expanded by the work of related fields including but are not limited to, digital archeology/forensics, virtualization of programming environments, material sciences, and humanities computing. This team's work is expected to include hosting a set of interviews, dialogs, or talks which could be shared on a blog, as a webinar series, or through some other communications platform. Insights in digital stewardship is an attempt by the Innovation Working Group of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) to engage with individuals working on projects or in areas that preservation and discovery and access of digital materials. In this project, we are engaging in interactions over email which are then posted for the community to comment on and discuss. The goal of these conversations is to generate innovative ideas for NDSA members and engage new communities in conversations about digital preservation and stewardship.

===Strategic Value of Activity===
Publishing these interviews encourages and shares innovative methods of digital preservation practices and technologies and helps inspire new developments.

===Required Resources===
Time of working group members

===Roadmap===
1. Individual or Action Team determines who to ask to be interviewed. 
2. Interview requested and accepted. 
3. Questions refined or developed for that interview -- can be done by individual or with the Action Team. 
4. Questions emailed to interviewee for responses. 
5. Responses edited into an interview blog post. 
6. Edited interview sent to interviewee for review. 
7. Final version published on blog. 

===Dissemination of Knowledge===
The Signal Digital Preservation Blog: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/

===Signifiers of Success and Outcomes===
Success:
* The action team will communicate over email and report their work on the wiki page at:
http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Broadening_and_Networking_the_Field_of_Research_in_Digital_Preservation.
*The action team will also report on their work to members of the Innovation Working Group through periodic group phone calls.
* Completed interviews published at www.digitalpreservation.gov

Outcomes:
NDSA starts talking about and posting about the interviews. The interviews feed innovative approaches to digital preservation challenges.

==Completed Interviews==
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/09/sharing-theft-and-creativity-deviantarts-share-wars-and-how-an-online-arts-community-thinks-about-their-work/ Sharing, Theft, and Creativity: deviantART’s Share Wars and How an Online Arts Community Thinks About Their Work] Interview about online ethnographic research exploring how artists think about their rights to copy and share their work.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/08/digital-strategy-catches-up-with-the-present-an-interview-with-smithsonians-michael-edson/ Digital Strategy Catches up With the Present: An Interview with Smithsonian’s Michael Edson] discussion of how digital strategy should work for cultural heritage organizations.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/telling-tales-joe-lambert-from-the-center-for-digital-storytelling/ Telling Tales: Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Storytelling] discussion of various projects at the Center for Digital Storytelling.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/life-saving-the-national-software-reference-library/ Life-Saving: The National Software Reference Library Doug White, of NSRL] interview about this collection.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/open-source-software-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-bram-van-der-werf-of-the-open-planets-foundation/ Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation] well received interview about open source software development for digital preservation.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/03/sheer-preservation-%E2%80%93-familysearch-and-preserving-the-heritage-of-mankind/ Sheer Preservation – FamilySearch and Preserving the Heritage of Mankind] some background on infrastructure behind FamilySearch.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/02/insights-interview-with-beverly-emmons-lighting-design-preservation-innovator/ Insights Interview with Beverly Emmons, Lighting Design Preservation Innovator] discussion of this increasingly digital component of contemporary theater.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/12/crowdsourcing-the-civil-war-insights-interview-with-nicole-saylor/ Crowdsourcing the Civil War: Insights Interview with Nicole Saylor] This interview explores the development of a crowdsourcing transcription project at the University of Iowa.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/10/interview-with-brett-bobley/ Brett Bobley of the Office for Digital Humanities at the NEH] This interview explores relationships between the digging into data grants and digital stewardship.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/09/toward-a-library-of-virtual-machines-insights-interview-with-vasanth-bala-and-mahadev-satyanarayanan/ Toward a Library of Virtual Machines: Insights interview with Vasanth Bala and Mahadev Satyanarayanan] This interview focuses on a project to create a virtual library of software for emulation.
#[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/06/insights-interview-with-david-rosenthal/ Interview with David Rosenthal] This interview explores perspectives on software development and problems in digital preservation.

==Interview Process and Materials==
===Format===
Text: The Innovation Working group will conduct interviews/conversations over email, a wiki, or Google docs and then share the resulting text interviews through some manner of blog or wiki where they will invite conversation from the broader NDSA community. It might be ideal for the Action Team to get the format and process for this down enough that any NDSA member could use them to play host to an interview/conversation and then the Innovation Working Group would put it in the queue.

===Fields and Projects===
*Digital records in medicine. Of particular interest, medical imaging
*Crowdsourcing projects, for example metadata games, Google image labeler, zooniverse. @home projects
*Open access publishing, for example Public Library of Science
*Data visualization and UI designers interested in cultural heritage projects.
*Data mining approaches and tools for scholars, example Voyeur Tools
*digital archeology/forensics,
*virtualization of programming environments
**Goals:
**# Understand management of copies of data spaces.
**# Learn how virtual machines are configured (operating metadata).
*material sciences
*Astronomy
*Video gaming
*Scientific fields that particularly rely on “big data” (e.g., climate modeling)
*U.S. Census.
**Goals:
**# Understand best practices about keeping track of many records that have metadata and data.
**# What digital preservation method(s) are being used?
*Statistics and Mathematical modeling (e.g, sports statistics, economic modeling)

===Introductory Email===

Hello, [name],

We're writing to you as part of a group called the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), convened by the Library of Congress. It 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.

The NDSA has a specific Innovation Working Group formed to investigate innovative practice in digital preservation, and part of this working group's mandate is to reach out to companies and individuals to ask about their digital preservation practices and ideas, in the hope that this survey might inform the challenge as a whole. We'd like to present our survey findings in a report about current practice in Digital Preservation, and your voice is an important part of that.

We're writing to you today to see if you would be willing to be interviewed for a blog series which broadly explores innovation in digital preservation. If so, thank you! You can simply respond to this email and we will send you a short set of questions to respond to for the post.

We'll look forward to hearing from you! And please, feel free to get back to us with any questions about this.

Regards,

For more information on the NDSA and Innovation Working Groups, please visit:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/
http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Innovation_Working_Group

===Guiding Questions===
I had a tough time working up questions that could be general enough to work across all of the diverse fields we have discussed. While this set of questions is very general I would hope that it could serve as the basis to start a conversation which would then involve an additional set of questions that focus in on the particular relevant issues in a given context.
*Can you briefly describe or characterize the field you are working in or the kinds of projects you work on?
*What are the most pressing challenges or hardest problems to solve in this work?
*What do you think is the thing about your field that most outsiders find the most interesting or useful?
*How do people in your field communicate with each other? With people outside your area of interest?
*Does your field deal with digital content (datasets, digital objects, text, audio, video, etc), and how?
*What kind of implications does your project or field have for preservation, access and discovery of digital objects?
*What do you think are the most important things we can learn from your field?
*What do you think your field might contribute to other fields?
*Do you think the challenges and problems in your field will be different in 5 years or 10 years? In the next generation?
*Can you describe innovation in your field and how it happens?
*Based on your work and field what kinds of work would you like to see the digital preservation and stewardship community take on?
*Can you suggest other people who are doing interesting or innovative work that you think might be of interest to the digital preservation community?

NDSA:Draft Science Forums Case Study

2012-09-24T15:32:25Z

Trow:

'''Discussing Science: Science Technology Medicine and Engineering Web Forum Case Study'''
Discussion forums have become a popular mode for scientists, mathematicians, engineers, doctors and technologists to talk to each other. Places like Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, and Science Forums have extensive amounts of these discussions. Science also comes up a lot in non-professional discussion forums, for example, forums for videogames that broach science topics, or a range of forums that exist around science controversy in the general public (evolution, anti-vax, etc). Lastly, many Citizen science projects, like Galaxy Zoo, have web forums that serve as a corollary component to the project where users discuss potential discoveries.

==Historical Value==
* ''The Public Record of Knowledge, Discovery and Innovation:'' Forums where professionals discuss topics record discussion between professionals. In the future these kinds of discussion forums will be invaluable records of interactions and communications between experts.
* Science Communication: As a novel form of communication these forums represent part of a change in science communication. As such, having a record of the different forums in different contexts is valuable to record the history of science communication.
* Public Understanding of Science: Many forums that bring together popular audiences offer a rare opportunity to collect and preserve discussions of science and science topics that can allow insight into public understanding and perspective on a range of science topics.

==Example Sites==
* Stack Overflow: Massive online discussion forums for troubleshooting software programing issues
* Math Overflow: Focused discussion space for mathematicians to help each other work through problems.
* Science Forums: Broad and ranging discussion of science topics in more than 680,000 posts.
* Forums devoted to science controversies: For examplehttp://www.evcforum.net/Forums.php and http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi or for that mater parts of other forums, this anti-vax section on a mothering forum http://www.mothering.com/community/f/443/im-not-vaccinating
* Sporum: A discussion forum devoted to the video game Spore. As much of the game is about science topics much of the forums also involve discussion of science topics.
* Galaxy Zoo Forums: Web forums for a popular citizen science project.

==Recognize Opportunities==
* Interest in born digital science content preservation among content creators evident in establishing sessions on preserving science blogs at Science Online
* Potential to incorporate this into the NDIIPP report on the Preserving Online Science meeting

==Target Audiences==
These audiences share multiple levels of local, state, national, and international interest:
* State-wide communities: Academic researchers; historians of science; university students and professors; archives
* National and International communities: Trending researchers; historians of science

==Educating Stakeholders==
The NDSA seeks to communicate the role that online science discussion forums can in community history to stakeholders through multiple venues:
* Content creators: Participate in events with content creators like Science Online
* Funders: The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded work on preservation and access of science collections, the Alfred P. Sloan foundation has funded some work on the history of science, and the National Science Foundation funds a limited amount of work on the history of science.
* Historians of Science: There is not yet the kind of focus on born digital history of science that one sees in some other historical topics like literature. There is a need to reach out to organizations like the History of Science Society, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
* State libraries and historical societies: Educate and partner with state libraries and historical societies on preserving science content related to geographic regions. (NDSA members or regional centers collect; workshop presentations at district library association meetings; conference calls with public library directors.
* National Libraries: Get national libraries to launch collections focused on these topics.

==Obstacles and Risk Factors==
Possible risk factors and obstacles in citizen journalism and community news preservation.
* Identification and selection of content remains challenging.
* Discussion forums are a rather ephemeral kind of content, so there is substantive potential for risk of loss
Actionable Items
* Push a partner, or multiple partners, to propose and begin to collect a collection of science, technology, mathematics and medicine discussion forums collection. Or, to get several partners to break the topic up into content areas to collect.
* Example small web archiving projects could include
** Professional Programing Discussion Forums Collection: A collection of discussion forums where programmers discuss technical solutions.
** Mathematics Discussions Online Collection: A collection of discussion forums in which professional mathematicians discuss issues and trouble shoot problems. Could also include discussion of particular mathematical software, like mathmatica.
** Science controversies Forums Collection: A collection of various discussion sites focused on topics like evolution and vaccines.
** Popular Science Discussion on the Web Collection: There are a range of discussion forums that are simply topically identified as general science forums. This would focus on collecting those.
** Science in Pop Culture Forums: This would focus on targeting discussion forums associated with pop-cultural phenomena that generate considerable discussion of science topics. For example, tv-show forums for science fiction shows, video game forums for games like Spore that focus on science topics.
** [http://stemcellarchives.library.wisc.edu/#reactions Reactions in Wisconsin to Stem Cell Research]: Localized special collection focused on a particular topic in a regional area.

NDSA:Draft Science Forums Case Study

2012-09-24T15:30:35Z

Trow: Created page with ''''Discussing Science: Science Technology Medicine and Engineering Web Forum Case Study''' Discussion forums have become a popular mode for scientists, mathematicians, engineers,…'

'''Discussing Science: Science Technology Medicine and Engineering Web Forum Case Study'''
Discussion forums have become a popular mode for scientists, mathematicians, engineers, doctors and technologists to talk to each other. Places like Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, and Science Forums have extensive amounts of these discussions. Science also comes up a lot in non-professional discussion forums, for example, forums for videogames that broach science topics, or a range of forums that exist around science controversy in the general public (evolution, anti-vax, etc). Lastly, many Citizen science projects, like Galaxy Zoo, have web forums that serve as a corollary component to the project where users discuss potential discoveries.
==Historical Value==
* ''The Public Record of Knowledge, Discovery and Innovation:'' Forums where professionals discuss topics record discussion between professionals. In the future these kinds of discussion forums will be invaluable records of interactions and communications between experts.
* Science Communication: As a novel form of communication these forums represent part of a change in science communication. As such, having a record of the different forums in different contexts is valuable to record the history of science communication.
* Public Understanding of Science: Many forums that bring together popular audiences offer a rare opportunity to collect and preserve discussions of science and science topics that can allow insight into public understanding and perspective on a range of science topics.

==Example Sites==
* Stack Overflow: Massive online discussion forums for troubleshooting software programing issues
* Math Overflow: Focused discussion space for mathematicians to help each other work through problems.
* Science Forums: Broad and ranging discussion of science topics in more than 680,000 posts.
* Forums devoted to science controversies: For examplehttp://www.evcforum.net/Forums.php and http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi or for that mater parts of other forums, this anti-vax section on a mothering forum http://www.mothering.com/community/f/443/im-not-vaccinating
* Sporum: A discussion forum devoted to the video game Spore. As much of the game is about science topics much of the forums also involve discussion of science topics.
* Galaxy Zoo Forums: Web forums for a popular citizen science project.
==Recognize Opportunities==
* Interest in born digital science content preservation among content creators evident in establishing sessions on preserving science blogs at Science Online
* Potential to incorporate this into the NDIIPP report on the Preserving Online Science meeting
==Target Audiences== These audiences share multiple levels of local, state, national, and international interest:
* State-wide communities: Academic researchers; historians of science; university students and professors; archives
* National and International communities: Trending researchers; historians of science
Educating Stakeholders: The NDSA seeks to communicate the role that online science discussion forums can in community history to stakeholders through multiple venues:
* Content creators: Participate in events with content creators like Science Online
* Funders: The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded work on preservation and access of science collections, the Alfred P. Sloan foundation has funded some work on the history of science, and the National Science Foundation funds a limited amount of work on the history of science.
* Historians of Science: There is not yet the kind of focus on born digital history of science that one sees in some other historical topics like literature. There is a need to reach out to organizations like the History of Science Society, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
* State libraries and historical societies: Educate and partner with state libraries and historical societies on preserving science content related to geographic regions. (NDSA members or regional centers collect; workshop presentations at district library association meetings; conference calls with public library directors.
* National Libraries: Get national libraries to launch collections focused on these topics.
==Obstacles and Risk Factors== Possible risk factors and obstacles in citizen journalism and community news preservation.
* Identification and selection of content remains challenging.
* Discussion forums are a rather ephemeral kind of content, so there is substantive potential for risk of loss
Actionable Items
* Push a partner, or multiple partners, to propose and begin to collect a collection of science, technology, mathematics and medicine discussion forums collection. Or, to get several partners to break the topic up into content areas to collect.
* Example small web archiving projects could include
** Professional Programing Discussion Forums Collection: A collection of discussion forums where programmers discuss technical solutions.
** Mathematics Discussions Online Collection: A collection of discussion forums in which professional mathematicians discuss issues and trouble shoot problems. Could also include discussion of particular mathematical software, like mathmatica.
** Science controversies Forums Collection: A collection of various discussion sites focused on topics like evolution and vaccines.
** Popular Science Discussion on the Web Collection: There are a range of discussion forums that are simply topically identified as general science forums. This would focus on collecting those.
** Science in Pop Culture Forums: This would focus on targeting discussion forums associated with pop-cultural phenomena that generate considerable discussion of science topics. For example, tv-show forums for science fiction shows, video game forums for games like Spore that focus on science topics.
** [http://stemcellarchives.library.wisc.edu/#reactions Reactions in Wisconsin to Stem Cell Research]: Localized special collection focused on a particular topic in a regional area.

NDSA:Sci-tech-med-math

2012-09-24T15:25:32Z

Trow: /* Discussion Forums About Science, Med, Math, and Tech */

Science, Technology, Medicine, and Mathematics Content Working Group

==Meeting Minutes==
*[[NDSA:March 2012]]

==Different Kinds of Online Science Content==

===Science, Medicine, Math, and Technology Blogs===
This would include everything from blogs scientists keep about their personal lives, to things like open notebook science where scientists are sharing their daily raw notes, to more reflective and commentary based blogs. See some notes on this in this post about Science Online http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/01/some-first-thoughts-on-online-science-and-digital-preservation/. These an also be blogs about Science, Med, Math, and Tech, including those that fall into broader science communication channels. For example, Scientific American has a rather large blog network, so does Nature, National Geographic, and PLoS. Beyond these, you can get a sample of the diversity of many science blogs by taking a look at the blog roll of all the attendees at last years Science Online Conference. http://scio12.wikispaces.com/-Blogroll

Examples of blogs by scientists, physicians, mathematicians,and engineers:

Anthony Salvagno's open notebook: http://research.iheartanthony.com/

Greg Lang's notebooks, presentations, etc: http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/glang/index.html

Other examples of blog aggregators are:

Scientopia: a collective of people who write about science because they love to do so

Science Blogs: a digital science salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines

[[NDSA:Draft Case Study]]

===Discussion Forums About Science, Med, Math, and Tech===
There are a lot of open public discussion spaces in which scientists, mathmaticians, doctors and technologists are talking with eachother. Places like Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Science Forums. Science also comes up a lot in non-professional forums, everything from video games, to things like pro and anti evolution forums http://www.evcforum.net/Forums.php and http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi or for that mater parts of other forums, like this anti-vax section on a mothering forum http://www.mothering.com/community/f/443/im-not-vaccinating

[[NDSA:Draft Science Forums Case Study]]

===Citizen Science Sites===
Things like [http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ Galaxy Zoo], projects at the [http://nestwatch.org/ Nest Watch], and [http://fold.it/portal/ Fold It] that are both new models of scientific work and represent interesting places where the public are engaging with scientists. Not only are the data gathered in these projects potentially at-risk, but also the the community based discussions around the data.

===Novel and hybrid online publications===
Things like PLoS and the Journal of Visualized Experiments that are churning out things that work like formal publications (ex journal articles) but in practice have all kinds of other features and components to them. It might also make sense to include preprint services like http://arxiv.org/ in this category.

===Official science organization websites===
There is considerable value in things like research group and lab group websites (everything from small university labs http://hfac.gmu.edu/people/rparasur/Neuroergonomics.htm to sites for institutes like http://krasnow.gmu.edu/soc/ and major research facilities http://www.fnal.gov/ as well as government orgs and agencies sites like NOAH, NASA, DOE, NSF, CDC, the National Academy of Sciences, etc. I suppose professional association sites would fall into this area as well, broad orgs like AAAS, to things like APA, to particularly small topical conferences.

==Different sorts of research value these content can represent==
Off the top of my head it seems like there are three primary different kinds of histories these different kinds of collections would let historians tell.
===The Public Record of Knowledge ===
Much of the history of science, tech, medicine and math is about looking at who published what when and how they cite other published material. Traditionally this has meant collecting books and journal articles. However, in our case the novel online publications seem to be the key fit here.
===Internalist History of Science, Technology, Medicine and Math===
This is a very traditional history of science genre, focusing on the process by which scientists and technology innovators do their work and make their discoveries. In the analog world we find these kinds of things in manuscript collections, personal papers, Institutional archives, etc. In the case of the online materials we are discussing, things like researcher blogs and online notebooks seem to be central in this category, however, some of the citizen science sites actually reflect these kinds of discoveries as well, for example a new kind of galaxy was actually first discovered in the web forums for Galaxy Zoo and in that instance the Galaxy Zoo forums are interesting for telling this inside science story. I suppose discussion forums also fit in here, as they represent a kind of correspondence between scientists.
===Public Understanding of Science and Science Communication===
Lastly, there is a much broader category that has to do with a very different kind of history of science, one that focuses not on the internalist story but much more broadly on science as part of culture. Here there are a ton of different kinds of web content that might be interesting. Trevor provided some examples from his research and writing that focus on a few different kinds of content in these areas.

a) The "Cosmos Remixed" song and music video on Youtube is a nice example of where science ends up in user generated video. http://www.trevorowens.org/2009/11/autotune-for-science-or-when-youtube-got-smart/

b) Discussion forums frequently turn to discussions of science, even in places where you might not think of it. For example, here is an article I wrote about the discussion forums for Spore http://www.trevorowens.org/vitae/teaching-intelligent-design-or-sparking-interest-in-science-what-players-do-with-will-wrights-spore/ and here is an article I wrote about discussions of the nature of science and technology in the discussion forums for the game Civilization http://www.trevorowens.org/vitae/modding-the-history-of-science-values-at-play-in-modder-discussions-of-sid-meier%E2%80%99s-civilization/

c) Yelp and TripAdvisor comments and Flickr photos similarly end up being potential materials for exploring science in culture. For example here is an article I wrote about using where the Einstein memorial appears in those sites as a point of entry to explore what the memorial means to people. http://www.trevorowens.org/vitae/tripadvisor-rates-einstein/

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

2012-09-05T15:27:40Z

Trow:

== Statement of Purpose ==
The Infrastructure Working Group works to build a community of sharing information and best practices about the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities for the long term preservation of digital content.

== Call Information ==
For our monthly calls here is the call in information:
* Call-in number: 866-469-3239
* Participant Access Code: 21408589

==Current Work Objectives==
*[[NDSA:Open Source Software]] Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development and sharing of open source tools and other software that enable digital preservation.
*[[NDSA:Discussions on Preservation Storage Topics]]: Summaries and salient points from the WG's bi-weekly open conversation on detailed aspects of preservation storage. Topics discussed: encryption, (others forthcoming).
* Storage Survey: For the first year the group's primary project was a exploration of member's approaches to storage. We began with an exploration of cloud providers, see [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]]. From there we developed a set of [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]]which 10 members responded to. From there we developed and implemented a survey of the members [[NDSA:Media:Draft_storage_survey_v3.pdf]]. The final report and a series of blog posts on this project are still being finalized.

==Potential Future Projects==
*Investigate, share, and recognize emerging practices for use and development of computer forensic tools that enable digital preservation.
*Encourage communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Aug_28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, April 24, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 27, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, February 28, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, January 31, 2012]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, December 20, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, November 22, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, October 19, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, September 21, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, August 24, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, July 28, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, June 8, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, May 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Wednesday, April 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, March 15, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Thursday, Feb 17, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, Feb 14, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011]]
*[[NDSA:Friday, Dec 10, 2010]]
*[[NDSA:Monday, November 22, 2010]]

==Participation==
Participation in the Infrastructure Working Group is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Karen Cariani and Trevor Owens to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

Action Teams may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.

NDSA:Levels of preservation

2012-08-30T17:55:30Z

Trow:

==Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc 3.0],
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#'''Completed'''Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#Share on the blog for public comment
#Solicit targeted feedback at conferences and on list servs.
#Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#Consider including a short glossary
#Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project

'''Dissemination of Knowledge:''' Once finished we can publish this as a short report on digitalpreservation.gov, put up a blog post announcing it on the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, and group members can send out an announcement about it to various listservs.

'''Signifiers of Success:''' Completed document. Ideally, an indication of broader success would be seeing this document referred to in a range of plans and guidance.

NDSA:Levels of preservation

2012-08-30T17:54:57Z

Trow:

==Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc 3.0],
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#'''Completed'''Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#Share on the blog for public comment
#Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#Consider including a short glossary
#Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project

'''Dissemination of Knowledge:''' Once finished we can publish this as a short report on digitalpreservation.gov, put up a blog post announcing it on the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, and group members can send out an announcement about it to various listservs.

'''Signifiers of Success:''' Completed document. Ideally, an indication of broader success would be seeing this document referred to in a range of plans and guidance.

NDSA:Open Source Presentation Series

2012-08-30T13:59:36Z

Trow: First draft

'''Title of Activity or Project''' 
OS Presentations: Exploring Open Source project for use in digital preservation infrastructure

'''One Sentence Description:''' 
Infrastructure Working Group members will invite presenters to present and discuss open source projects they work on to learn about open source projects and open source software development and sustainability practices from project experts, discuss the projects, and note what functions they may serve in digital preservation infrastructure, blogging the resulting discussions.

'''Statement of the Problem and Goals for Addressing the Problem:''' 
There are a number of open source projects and communities around specific needs for digital preservation systems, particularly around content management systems. It is confusing to know the strengths of one system over another and the pros and cons of each depending on one’s needs. In addition, knowledge of the options is limited. The Infrastructure working group will try to ferret out projects that may be if value to digital preservation infrastructure needs. We will explore the projects by speaking to experts working on the projects and we will write up our findings to share with eh NDSA community and others.

'''Strategic Value of Activity:''' 
* This will draw attention and share information about specific open source projects that speak to infrastructure needs
* This will clarify the value of some of the open source projects being discussed
* This will help to identify software development and sustainability practices that cut across projects
* This will share the info with the digital preservation community at large using NDSA expertise to help simplify the issues

'''Required Resources:'''
* Time of working group members to coordinate
* External experts to present projects
* Webx tools
* Time of working group members to reflect and write up short responses

'''Roadmap:''' 
What are the steps to take in order to accomplish this activity? Examples:
# Email list of topics and projects and presentors
# Set up presentations by experts (to alternate with working group calls)
# Hold conference calls to discuss presentations
# Draft document and review
# Invite member feedback
# Revise document

'''Dissemination of Knowledge:''' 
How will this activity be shared? Examples:
* Blog posts reporting out the talks
* The presentations themselves share knowledge inside the NDSA
* Future options for members to write up other kinds of reports or guides

'''Signifiers of Success and Outcomes:''' 
Well attended meetings, input on value from presenters, well read blog posts, role in shaping future projects.

NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012

2012-08-29T19:25:34Z

Trow:

'''On the Call'''

* Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
* Andrea Goethels, Harvard University
* Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
* Carol Kussmann, Minnesota Historical Society
* Cory Snavely, University of Michigan
* Dean Farrell State Library North Carolina
* Jefferson Bailey, Metro NYC
* John Spenser, BMS Chase
* Karen Cariani, WGBH
* Mark Evans, Tesella
* Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
* Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

'''Action Items:'''

* Everyone: take a moment to ask and or answer a digital preservation question on the Libraries and Information Science stack exchange site. http://libraries.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-preservation
* Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative to kick off a small team of folks who will try to get members to participate in asking and answering questions.
* Robin volunteered to share the Levels document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
* Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on the Levels document.
* Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
* Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.
* Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the webinar project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

==Quick report out on ongoing Levels of Preservation action team==
The Levels of Preservation Action Team is planning to share the draft levels document for public comment in the next few weeks. So keep an eye out for that. The drafts are also on the project page, so if you would like to review them sooner rather than later you can see them there.

Several members volunteered to help solicit feedback to further refine the levels
* Robin volunteered to share the document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
* Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on it.
* Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
* Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.

==Stack Exchange Libraries and Information Science Site: Potential place to build practical knowledge base of digital preservation infrastructure Q&A==

There was general interest in the stack exchange project initiated by the innovation group. This could be a great opportunity for us to create a more public knowledge base around some of the infrastructure questions and discussions we have been having on the list.

Jefferson suggested that we try and get folks to start asking and answering the questions that they proposed for the digital preservation stack exchange site proposal on the library and information science site with the digital preservation tag. This seemed to be something that had consensus. There were also suggestions that we could try to use the list serve to try and get folks to generate questions that we then ask and answer on Stack Exchange. Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative.

==New activity idea: Member technical briefing webexs==
A new activity to hold webex briefing/presentation/discussions was suggested. This is rooted in the fact that several members found the initial cloud presentations project to be particularly useful and an idea from the leadership committee that it would be useful to have one of the groups run something like a webinar series.

It was suggested that the best way to do this would be, like the cloud presentations, to follow a particular topic. Given the groups ongoing interest in open source, it seemed like it would be a natural fit to make the first topic for the series to be open source software projects related to digital preservation infrastructure. The goal here is for these presentations to be of general interest to the NDSA as an information sharing activity but to also have them inform some kind of small outputs related to the them (could be reflective blog posts from participants, could be some kind of short guidelines document on some of the best practices or values of open source software for digital preservation, that would be TBD)

Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

The idea for this activity is that we would use the working group call time as the time to hold these briefings. So we would move to a schedule where every other call would be a working meeting and a briefing.

==Reworking the NDSA Wiki pages==
The group felt good about the approach to reorganizing the wiki pages to more clearly surface the ongoing and inactive projects. This includes both starting to use the new activity charters to make the projects a bit more legible and reorganizing the homepage of the wiki to list out the ongoing projects.

Several members suggested that it would be better to move to make the wiki entirely public. (Currently everything inside the wiki is behind a login). The goals here were too fold. First, people inside the NDSA are far more likely to actually read wiki pages if they don’t need to login. Second, the group thought that the wiki could be much more useful for those outside the NDSA if they could explore it if they were interested. Trevor volunteered to bring this up to the other working group co-chairs and if there is interest from other groups explore the feasibility of this with the LC folks that administrate the wiki.

NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012

2012-08-29T19:23:22Z

Trow:

'''On the Call'''

* Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
* Andrea Goethels, Harvard University
* Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
* Carol Kussmann, Minnesota Historical Society
* Cory Snavely, University of Michigan
* Dean Farrell State Library North Carolina
* Jefferson Bailey, Metro NYC
* John Spenser, BMS Chase
* Karen Cariani, WGBH
* Mark Evans, Tesella
* Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
* Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

'''Action Items:'''

* Everyone: take a moment to ask and or answer a digital preservation question on the Libraries and Information Science stack exchange site. http://libraries.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-preservation
* Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative to kick off a small team of folks who will try to get members to participate in asking and answering questions.
* Robin volunteered to share the Levels document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
* Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on the Levels document.
* Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
* Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.
* Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

==Quick report out on ongoing Levels of Preservation action team==
The Levels of Preservation Action Team is planning to share the draft levels document for public comment in the next few weeks. So keep an eye out for that. The drafts are also on the project page, so if you would like to review them sooner rather than later you can see them there.

Several members volunteered to help solicit feedback to further refine the levels
* Robin volunteered to share the document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
* Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on it.
* Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
* Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.

==Stack Exchange Libraries and Information Science Site: Potential place to build practical knowledge base of digital preservation infrastructure Q&A==

There was general interest in the stack exchange project initiated by the innovation group. This could be a great opportunity for us to create a more public knowledge base around some of the infrastructure questions and discussions we have been having on the list.

Jefferson suggested that we try and get folks to start asking and answering the questions that they proposed for the digital preservation stack exchange site proposal on the library and information science site with the digital preservation tag. This seemed to be something that had consensus. There were also suggestions that we could try to use the list serve to try and get folks to generate questions that we then ask and answer on Stack Exchange. Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative.

==New activity idea: Member technical briefing webexs==
A new activity to hold webex briefing/presentation/discussions was suggested. This is rooted in the fact that several members found the initial cloud presentations project to be particularly useful and an idea from the leadership committee that it would be useful to have one of the groups run something like a webinar series.

It was suggested that the best way to do this would be, like the cloud presentations, to follow a particular topic. Given the groups ongoing interest in open source, it seemed like it would be a natural fit to make the first topic for the series to be open source software projects related to digital preservation infrastructure. The goal here is for these presentations to be of general interest to the NDSA as an information sharing activity but to also have them inform some kind of small outputs related to the them (could be reflective blog posts from participants, could be some kind of short guidelines document on some of the best practices or values of open source software for digital preservation, that would be TBD)

Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

The idea for this activity is that we would use the working group call time as the time to hold these briefings. So we would move to a schedule where every other call would be a working meeting and a briefing.

==Reworking the NDSA Wiki pages==
The group felt good about the approach to reorganizing the wiki pages to more clearly surface the ongoing and inactive projects. This includes both starting to use the new activity charters to make the projects a bit more legible and reorganizing the homepage of the wiki to list out the ongoing projects.

Several members suggested that it would be better to move to make the wiki entirely public. (Currently everything inside the wiki is behind a login). The goals here were too fold. First, people inside the NDSA are far more likely to actually read wiki pages if they don’t need to login. Second, the group thought that the wiki could be much more useful for those outside the NDSA if they could explore it if they were interested. Trevor volunteered to bring this up to the other working group co-chairs and if there is interest from other groups explore the feasibility of this with the LC folks that administrate the wiki.

NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012

2012-08-29T14:40:31Z

Trow: Draft notes, feel free to revise and edit

'''On the Call'''

Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
Andrea Goethels, Harvard University
Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
Carol Kussmann, Minnesota Historical Society
Cory Snavely, University of Michigan
Dean Farrell State Library North Carolina
Jefferson Bailey, Metro NYC
John Spenser, BMS Chase
Karen Cariani, WGBH
Mark Evans, Tesella
Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

'''Action Items:'''

* Everyone: take a moment to ask and or answer a digital preservation question on the Libraries and Information Science stack exchange site. http://libraries.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-preservation
* Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative to kick off a small team of folks who will try to get members to participate in asking and answering questions.
* Robin volunteered to share the Levels document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
* Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on the Levels document.
* Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
* Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.
* Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

==Quick report out on ongoing Levels of Preservation action team==
The Levels of Preservation Action Team is planning to share the draft levels document for public comment in the next few weeks. So keep an eye out for that. The drafts are also on the project page, so if you would like to review them sooner rather than later you can see them there.

Several members volunteered to help solicit feedback to further refine the levels
* Robin volunteered to share the document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
* Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on it.
* Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
* Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.

==Stack Exchange Libraries and Information Science Site: Potential place to build practical knowledge base of digital preservation infrastructure Q&A==

There was general interest in the stack exchange project initiated by the innovation group. This could be a great opportunity for us to create a more public knowledge base around some of the infrastructure questions and discussions we have been having on the list.

Jefferson suggested that we try and get folks to start asking and answering the questions that they proposed for the digital preservation stack exchange site proposal on the library and information science site with the digital preservation tag. This seemed to be something that had consensus. There were also suggestions that we could try to use the list serve to try and get folks to generate questions that we then ask and answer on Stack Exchange. Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative.

==New activity idea: Member technical briefing webexs==
A new activity to hold webex briefing/presentation/discussions was suggested. This is rooted in the fact that several members found the initial cloud presentations project to be particularly useful and an idea from the leadership committee that it would be useful to have one of the groups run something like a webinar series.

It was suggested that the best way to do this would be, like the cloud presentations, to follow a particular topic. Given the groups ongoing interest in open source, it seemed like it would be a natural fit to make the first topic for the series to be open source software projects related to digital preservation infrastructure. The goal here is for these presentations to be of general interest to the NDSA as an information sharing activity but to also have them inform some kind of small outputs related to the them (could be reflective blog posts from participants, could be some kind of short guidelines document on some of the best practices or values of open source software for digital preservation, that would be TBD)

Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

The idea for this activity is that we would use the working group call time as the time to hold these briefings. So we would move to a schedule where every other call would be a working meeting and a briefing.

==Reworking the NDSA Wiki pages==
The group felt good about the approach to reorganizing the wiki pages to more clearly surface the ongoing and inactive projects. This includes both starting to use the new activity charters to make the projects a bit more legible and reorganizing the homepage of the wiki to list out the ongoing projects.

Several members suggested that it would be better to move to make the wiki entirely public. (Currently everything inside the wiki is behind a login). The goals here were too fold. First, people inside the NDSA are far more likely to actually read wiki pages if they don’t need to login. Second, the group thought that the wiki could be much more useful for those outside the NDSA if they could explore it if they were interested. Trevor volunteered to bring this up to the other working group co-chairs and if there is interest from other groups explore the feasibility of this with the LC folks that administrate the wiki.

NDSA:Levels of preservation

2012-08-28T17:58:37Z

Trow: /* Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation */

==Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation==

'''One Sentence Description:''' Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

Working Draft Document:
Current Working Draft:
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/6/68/Levels_of_pres_revised_aug_28th.doc Levels of Preservation Draft 3.0}
[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/7/7d/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_draft_handout_v2_2.pdf Levels of Preservation Draft 2.2]

[http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b4/Levels_of_Digital_Preservation_-_Slide_Deck_v2_3.pdf Slides Presented at Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting]

Previous Draft: [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/0/0c/Digital_preservation_levels_four_levels_six_factors_v2.doc Levels and Factors in Technical Functionality for Digital Preservation]

'''Statement of the Problem and Goal to Address Problem:''' There is both very basic digital preservation information, like NDIIPP’s personal archiving materials, as well as extensive and substantial requirements for being recognized as a trusted digital repository. However, there is little solid guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation between these two ends of the spectrum. The goal of this project is to develop a tiered set of recommendations for prioritizing enhancements to digital preservation systems (defined broadly to include organizational and technical infrastructure). This group will define targets for at least three distinct levels of criteria for digital preservation systems, at the bottom level providing guidance to “get the boxes off the floor” and at each escalating level offering prioritized suggestions for how organizations can get the most out of their resources for additional preservation assurance at each subsequent level.

'''Strategic Value:'''
* Focused on a clear gap identified by the working group chairs and coordinating committee.
* Focused on pragmatic best usage of resources as opposed to ideal situations.
* Resulting resource is of value to members at each end of the spectrum.

'''Required Resources:''' Time of a small number of internal members. Potentially involves external or specific targeted internal review.

'''Roadmap:'''
#'''Completed''' Hold conference call to discuss levels documents created by content team on an infrastructure call. See [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/b/b8/Outline_for_levels-draft_oct5.doc Digital Preservation Levels] and [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/1/17/Digitization_chart.xls Digital Preservation Levels Chart]see also [http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/carol/docs_pdfs/NDIIPPpreservation_grid-Feburary2012Final_000.pdf MNHS Digital File Preservation Options Good, Better, Best doc]
#'''Completed''' Iteratively revise draft document and invite member feedback
#'''Completed''' Hold workshop at NDSA conference to present and critique the document
#Identify key reference documents to link to in a brief annotated bibliography
#Consider including a short glossary
#Invite particular targeted individuals to review it
#Decide on dissemination plan and disseminate it
#Identify a future date at which an NDSA action team should revisit this project

'''Dissemination of Knowledge:''' Once finished we can publish this as a short report on digitalpreservation.gov, put up a blog post announcing it on the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, and group members can send out an announcement about it to various listservs.

'''Signifiers of Success:''' Completed document. Ideally, an indication of broader success would be seeing this document referred to in a range of plans and guidance.

NDSA:Levels of pres revised aug 28th.doc

2012-08-28T17:56:50Z

Trow: Newest revision of the document

Newest revision of the document

NDSA:Activity Charter Template

2012-08-24T18:31:14Z

Trow: Drafted charter template

Feel free to copy this for your activity and fill it in.

'''Title of Activity or Project''' 
Example: Steps and Targets: Defining Tiered Levels of Digital Preservation

'''One Sentence Description:''' 
Example: Infrastructure, Innovation, Content and Standards Working Group members will define a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.

'''Statement of the Problem and Goals for Addressing the Problem:''' 
A brief paragraph summarizing the issues that the planned activity will address and how that work will help

'''Strategic Value of Activity:''' 
A few bullets answering:
* What's the value of the activity to the NDSA?
'''Required Resources:''' 
What's needed for this activity to proceed? Examples:
* Time of working group members
* External reviewers
* Specialized skills or tools

'''Roadmap:''' 
What are the steps to take in order to accomplish this activity? Examples:
# Hold conference calls
# Draft document and review
# Invite member feedback
# Revise document

'''Dissemination of Knowledge:''' 
How will this activity be shared? Examples:
* Publish report on digitalpreservation.gov
* Write a blog post
* Send announcements to listservs
* Present at conferences that members are attending

'''Signifiers of Success and Outcomes:''' 
List the indications that this activity has been successfully accomplished: A report, a completed survey, etc.
Also list the larger goals for the product of the activity: i.e. the product is referred to by others, the product influences decision making for member organizations, etc.

NDSA:Main Page

2012-08-24T18:12:20Z

Trow: added a few previous projects

'''National Digital Stewardship Alliance'''

The 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. 

NDSA members are working on:

* '''[[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.

What do you want to work on? Express your interest or vote for new ideas at: IdeaScale

Join one of the working groups to learn more:

'''[[NDSA:Content Working Group]] '''
* Geospatial Content
* Science Content

'''[[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]]''' 
* Call for Technical Challenge!
'''[[NDSA:Outreach Working Group]] '''
* Digital Preservation in a Box
* Kickstarter
* Wayne State Student Chapter Video
'''[[NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group]] '''

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.

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]

Completed Projects/Activities:

'''[[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]]

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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]

NDSA:Infrastructure Storage Survey

2012-08-24T15:34:19Z

Trow:

Resulting from the [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group]]’s work on [[NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions]] the group decided to survey the membership to see what their practices were. The NDSA Infrastructure Survey, conducted between August 2011 and November 2011, received responses from 58 members of the 74 NDSA member organizations who are preserving digital content. The results of the survey were reported in a series of blog posts on The Signal, the Library of Congress Digital Preservation blog.

==Survey Instrument and Data==
* [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/images/8/8f/NDSA_Large_Scale_Storage_System_Final_Questions.doc Survey Instrument]: Word Document copy of the survey instrument

==Blog Posts==
* [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/12/diversity-of-access-to-digital-preservation-collections-first-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/ Diversity of Access to Digital Preservation Collections; first results from the NDSA Storage Survey] December 1st, 2011
* [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/01/partly-cloudy-trends-in-distributed-and-remote-preservation-storage-more-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/ Partly Cloudy: Trends in Distributed and Remote Preservation Storage–More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey] January 18th, 2012
* [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/03/file-fixity-and-digital-preservation-storage-more-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/ File Fixity and Digital Preservation Storage: More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey] March 6th, 2012
* [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/08/prognosticating-digital-preservation-infrastructure-finals-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/ Prognosticating Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Final Results from the NDSA Storage Survey] August 1st, 2012

==Presentations==
* [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/documents/othermeetings/05_snavely_owens.pdf NDSA Preliminary Preservation Storage Survey Results] presented by Corey Snavley and Trevor Owens at Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections September 27-28, 2010

==Future Suggestions==
It would be worth considering re-running the survey in 2 or 3 years to track trends.

NDSA:NDSA Large Scale Storage System Final Questions.doc

2012-08-24T15:23:25Z

Trow: The final survey questions used in the infrastructure storage survey.

The final survey questions used in the infrastructure storage survey.

NDSA:Infrastructure Storage Survey

2012-08-24T15:17:31Z

Trow: Draft of this page

Resulting from the [Infrastructure Working Group]’s work on [Qualitative Storage Questions] the group decided to survey the membership to see what their practices were. The NDSA Infrastructure Survey, conducted between August 2011 and November 2011, received responses from 58 members of the 74 NDSA member organizations who are preserving digital content. The results of the survey were reported in a series of blog posts on The Signal, the Library of Congress Digital Preservation blog.

==Survey Instrument and Data==
Survey Instrument: Word Document copy of the survey instrument
Survey Data: Spreadsheet of the Survey data

==Blog Posts==
Prognosticating Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Final Results from the NDSA Storage Survey August 1st, 2012 http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/08/prognosticating-digital-preservation-infrastructure-finals-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/

File Fixity and Digital Preservation Storage: More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey March 6th, 2012 http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/03/file-fixity-and-digital-preservation-storage-more-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/

Partly Cloudy: Trends in Distributed and Remote Preservation Storage–More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey January 18th, 2012 http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/01/partly-cloudy-trends-in-distributed-and-remote-preservation-storage-more-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/

Diversity of Access to Digital Preservation Collections; first results from the NDSA Storage Survey December 1st, 2011 http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/12/diversity-of-access-to-digital-preservation-collections-first-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/

NDSA Preliminary Preservation Storage Survey Results http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/documents/othermeetings/05_snavely_owens.pdf presented by Corey Snavley and Trevor Owens at Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections September 27-28, 2010

==Future Suggestions==
It would be worth considering re-running the survey in 2 or 3 years to track trends.

NDSA:Open Ended Large Scale Storage Questions

2012-08-24T14:52:14Z

Trow:

Following on the initial infrastructure working group [[NDSA:Cloud Presentations]] the group decided we wanted to more deeply explore our own approaches to large scale storage systems. To this end, we developed the following set of questions and had nine of the NDSA member organizations respond to them in depth. This information was used to inform the [[NDSA:Infrastructure Storage Survey]].

=Questions for Member Institution Implementations of Large Scale Storage Architectures=
#What is the particular preservation goal or challenge you need to accomplish? (for example, re-use, public access, internal access, legal mandate, etc.)
#What large scale storage or cloud technologies are you using to meet that challenge? Further, why did you choose these particular technologies?
#Specifically, what kind of materials are you preserving (text, data sets, images, moving images, web pages, etc.)
#How big is your collection? (In terms of number of objects and storage space required)
#What are your performance requirements? Further, why are these your particular requirements?
#What storage media have you elected to use? (Disk, Tape, etc) Further, why did you choose these particular media?
#What do you think the key advantages of the system you use?
#What do you think are the key problems or disadvantages your system present?
#What important principles informed your decision about the particular tool or service you chose to use?
#How frequently do you migrate from one system to another? Further, what is it that prompts you to make these migrations?
# What characteristics of the storage system(s) you use do you feel are particularly well-suited to long-term digital preservation? (High levels of redundancy/resiliency, internal checksumming capabilities, automated tape refresh, etc)
# What functionality or processes have you developed to augment your storage systems in order to meet preservation goals? (Periodic checksum validation, limited human access or novel use of permissions schemes)
# Are there tough requirements for digital preservation, e.g. TRAC certification, that you wish were more readily handled by your storage system?

=Responses to questions=

====[[NDSA:Florida Center for Library Automation]]====

====[[NDSA:Harvard Library]]====

====[[NDSA:Harvard IQSS - DVN/Murray Archive]]====

====[[NDSA:HathiTrust]]====

====[[NDSA:National Library of Medicine Responses]]====

====[[NDSA:Penn State]]====

====[[NDSA:WGBH Responses]]====

====[[NDSA:NYU Response]]====

====[[NDSA:Library of Congress]]====

====[[NDSA:Columbia University]]====

NDSA:Cloud Presentations

2012-08-24T14:50:40Z

Trow: Moved the large scale storage questions and answers to their own page.

In each case we would want to identify who would present, who will contact them. Then when they will present.

From there we can include specific questions we would like them to respond to.

==Presentation Schedule and Slides==
# Feb 1, Tues, 1:00 EST call with iRods Reagan Moore ([[NDSA:Media:NIAID.ppt|presentation]])
# Feb 14, Monday, 11:00 EST call with Duracloud ([[NDSA:Media:DuracloudNDSA.ppt|presentation]])
# Feb 17, Thurs, 11:00 EST call with MetaArchive/GDDP Katherine Skinner, Matt Schultz and Martin Halbert MetaArchive NDSA ([[NDSA:Media:MetaArchive NDSA Infrastructure.ppt|presentation]])

==People/Projects to Contact==
*Chronopolis (Mike Smorul will contact)
*Open questions from the Educopia Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
*Commercial providers? (Who specifically would we want here? Please add them.)
**Azure (Leslie to contact)
**Amazon (Who will contact?)

==General Questions for Cloud Service Presenters==
Here we are working on a set of general questions for presenters to develop talks around.

# What sort of use cases is your system designed to support? What doesn't this support?
# What preservation standards would your system support?
# What resources are required to support a solution implemented in your environment?
# What infrastructure do you rely on?
# How can your system impact digital preservation activities?
# If we put data in your system today what systems and processes are in place so that we can get it back 10 years from now? (Take for granted a sophisticated audience that knows about multiple copies etc.)
# What types of materials does your system handle? (documents, audio files, video file, stills, data sets, etc) And give examples of those types in practice

===Responses to questions===
====[[NDSA:iRODS]] direct responses====

Other general notes:

* [Snavely] The need for each storage target to support a specific set of operations, and consistently with other storage targets, seems like a risk that comes along with the elegant abstraction that iRODS provides. Clear specifications help mitigate this risk.

====[[NDSA:DuraCloud]] direct responses====
Other general notes:

* [Snavely] Treatment of cloud provider is generally as a black box, without a strong sense of actual reliability of underlying storage systems. Cloud providers tend to promise checksum validation of contents, but recourse if validation fails was unknown (right?). Additional checksum validation has been augmented on top of cloud storage service by Duracloud.

====[[NDSA:MetaArchive/GDDP]] direct responses====
Other general notes:

* [Snavely] Built on LOCKSS, so data integrity assurances are provided by robust networked software model augmented to commodity hardware and storage. Federated nature provides integrity assurance but also a lack of central control in that the accidental loss of multiple caches is unlikely but e.g. scheduled maintenance or upgrades could coincidentally collide.

==Solution Models and Environments==
{| border="1"
!Name
!Offered as Service
!Deployed Locally
!Opensource
!Authentication Scheme
!Ingest Mechanism
!Export Mechanism
!Integrity/Validation Mechanism
!Replication Mechanism
!Administration Model (Federated, etc.)
!Tiering Support
|-
|iRODS
|Offered as Service
|Deployed Locally
|Opensource
|Authentication Scheme
|Ingest Mechanism
|Export Mechanism
|Integrity/Validation Mechanism
|Replication Mechanism
|Content Administration Model (Federated, etc.)
|Tiering Support
|Certifications
|-
|DuraCloud
|yes
|yes
|yes (Apache2)
|Basic Auth
|1:web-ui, 2:client-side utility, 3:REST-API
|1:web-ui, 2:client-side utility, 3:REST-API
|Checksum verified on ingest. On-demand checksum verification service.
|Built-in support for cross-cloud replication.
|Local
|No
|-
|MetaArchive/GDDP
|Mixed - PLN service layer on top of local LOCKSS nodes
|Mixed - PLN service layer on top of local LOCKSS nodes
|No
|IP-based
|LOCKSS harvesting plugins
|LOCKSS web proxy
|LOCKSS distributed integrity checking
|LOCKSS P2P
|Single superuser across all nodes
|No
|-
|Chronopolis
|Yes
|No
|No
|SRB/Irods based
|SRB/Irods based
|SRB/Irods based
|Local checksums
|SRB/Irods
|Single superuser
|No
|-
|Microsoft Azure
|Yes
|No
|No
|Multiple
| .Net/WIF
| Multiple APIs, .Net
|Not known/propietary
|Not known/propietary
|Single super user
|Not known/propietary
|-
|Amazon S3/EC2
|Yes
|No
|Opensource
|Multiple, including certs; proprietary / limited delegation model
|Restful API's
|Restful API's
|Proprietary
|Proprietary
|Single superuser
|Yes
|-
|DVN/Safearchive
|Yes
|Yes
|Opensource
|Basic Auth/IP
|Proprietary UI/Batch UI/LOCKSS harvesting plugins
|OAI/Lockss harvesting/proprietary
|LOCKS distributed integrity checks with additional TRAC auditing layer
|LOCKS with additional TRAC-based provisioning layer
|Federated & distributed
|No
|-
|}