NDSA:Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Infrastructure Working Group Call, Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Attending

• Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
• Andrea Goethels, Harvard University
• Cal Lee, UNC
• Carol Kussmann, Minnesota Historical Society
• Dave MacCarn, WGBH
• John Spenser, BMS Chase
• Karen Cariani, WGBH
• Micah Altman, MIT
• Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
• Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

Action Items

• Trevor is following up with the Bit Level Presentation threats presenters about writing posts on their talks
• The Levels of Preservation Group is working toward a public draft of their document
• The group as a whole should consider additional next steps
• The last storage survey post is live, we are looking for participants interested in reviewing the final combined set of posts.
• Representatives from the group will present ongoing work at the Preservation Storage Architecture meeting

Review of Current Projects

Bit Level Threats to Preservation Presentations: These presentations went well. Micah has posted about the talks and the slides from the talks on his blog. As far as next steps in this work the group considered several options. As we expected, most folks at the meeting are not activly working to audit and repair content. There were suggestions that it would be valuable to have some guidance for how to go about audit and repair.

Levels of Preservation Project: • There was a suggestion that we could think through linking out from this one page document to further information on each topic. There was a suggestion that the bit level preservation might benefit from building off of this project. There was a suggestion that it would be valuable to work out some different scenarios in which the levels document can/should be used. Robin volunteered to take the lead on some of these usage descriptions once the document was a little bit further along. The next phase of this work is likely to be publicly sharing it on the Signal blog and looking to solicit more feedback on it publicly from a range of different stakeholders. In doing so we should ask for anyone to make arguments and bring in any evidence or models that support or suggest refinements to the levels.

Preservation Storage Architecture Meeting: Storage Meeting: We briefly discussed the September preservation storage meeting. For those interested, here are links to the presentations from the 2009, the 2010 and 2011 storage meetings.