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

Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion

• Repository infrastructure and tools
  • Specific tools or platforms:
    • BagIt (LC, Georgetown Law, ITHAKA)
    • Fedora (Duke)
  • Understanding/surveying an institution's complex repository landscape (Cornell, Harvard)
  • Software development (LC)
  • Workflows (University of Minnesota, Columbia)

• Assessments/audits/certifications
  • Repository assessments and audits (Harvard, ITHAKA, ICPSR)
  • Specific models:
    • Levels of Digital Preservation (Harvard, Cornell, ICPSR)
    • Data Seal of Approval (ICPSR)
    • TRAC/ISO (Duke)

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

• Techniques and practices
  • Fixity checking (LC)
  • Digital forensics (Georgetown Law)
  • Participating on standards bodies (LC)

• Formats
  • Format assessment (LC, Harvard, Record labels?)
  • Format guidelines/requirements (for creation, digitization, transfer)(Georgetown Law, Cornell, University of Minnesota, Harvard, NARA)
  • Particular genres and categories of formats
    • Video (LC, Harvard, Columbia, ICPSR, Duke)
    • Born-digital (LC, Columbia)
    • Email (LC, Columbia)
    • Databases (Columbia)
    • PDF/A (LC)

• Other topics
  • Engagement with "users" (curators, content creators) (LC, Cornell)
  • Adequately resourcing programs (Cornell, Boston University)