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

Participants on the Call

Carl Fleischhauer John Spencer Dina Sokolova Kate Murray Mary Vardigan Michelle Paolillo Midge Coates Paula De Stefano Vika Zafrin Winston Atkins Andrea Goethals Butch Lazorchak Meg Phillips Kate Zwaard

Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion

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

• 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, Boston University)

• 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, Boston University)
  • 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, Boston University)
  • Particular genres and categories of formats
    • Video (LC, Harvard, Columbia, ICPSR, Duke, Boston University)
    • Born-digital (LC, Columbia, Boston University)
    • Email (LC, Columbia)
    • Databases (Columbia)
    • PDF/A (LC, Boston University)

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