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

Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion

• Repository infrastructure and tools
  • Specific tools: BagIt (LC, Georgetown Law)
  • Specific repository platforms: Fedora
  • Understanding/surveying an institution's complex repository landscape (Cornell, Harvard)
  • Software development (LC)

• Assessments/audits/certifications
  • Repository assessments (Harvard)
  • Levels of Digital Preservation (Harvard, Cornell)

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

• Techniques
  • Fixity checking (LC)
  • digital forensics (Georgetown Law)

• Formats (
  • Format assessment (LC, Harvard, Record labels?)
  • Format guidelines/requirements (for creation, digitization, transfer)(Georgetown Law, Cornell)
  • Particular genres and categories of formats
    • video (LC, Harvard)
    • born-digital (LC)
    • email (LC)
    • databases

• Engagement with "users" (curators, content creators) (LC, Cornell)