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

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Participants on the Call

New Members

Project Status

"What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion (continued)

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)
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