NDSA:Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Agenda

1. Update on new NDSA host
2. Overview of Chronopolis and The Digital Preservation Network (DPN)
3. Request topics for future calls / repository walk-throughs
4. Call for white paper topics

In attendance:

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1. Sibyl Schaefer, University of California, San Diego
2. Erin Engle, Library of Congress
3. Abby Potter, Library of Congress
4. Nick Krabbenhoeft, Educopia Institute

Discussion:

1. Update on new NDSA host
   1. Interviews with potential hosts are underway. They are coordinated by Micah Altman and an advisory council.
   2. The working groups with active projects and agendas will likely be untouched. The outreach working group may be reinvigorated and new groups may be added. The coordinating committee prefers that the working groups continued to be defined from the bottom up.
2. Overview of Chronopolis and The Digital Preservation Network (DPN)
   1. Chronopolis is a a collaborative service hosted by the University of California San Diego Libraries, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Development, hardware, and administrative responsibilities are each delegated to a partner. It provides storage for an annual fee.
   2. Chronopolis is a partner of DPN, a distributed dark archive to provide a repository-of-last-resort. Storage is paid by membership fees that fund an endowment.
   3. Chronopolis is also partnering with Duracloud and DPN to provide a front-end interface for moving data into its network called Duracloud Vault, which bridges Duracloud Storage with 3 nodes in DPN through an entry point in Chronopolis.
3. Request topics for future calls / repository walk-throughs
4. Call for white paper topics