NDSA:December 16, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion

• Repository infrastructure and tools
  • • Specific tools: BagIt
    • Specific repository platforms: Fedora

• Repository assessments/audits/certifications
  • Levels of Digital Preservation

• Content and metadata packages
  • • Packaging forms/SIP components (MXF AS-07, METS)
    • Transfer between repositories

• • Techniques (Fixity checking, digital forensics)

• • Formats (
    • Format assessment
    • Format guidelines/requirements (for creation, digitization, transfer)
    • Particular genres and categories of formats: video, born-digital, email, databases