NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group

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Standards and Practices Working Group

NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Charter (December 10, 2010)

Current Members

A list of current members is posted here: NDSA:Standards and Practices Working Group Members.

Statement of Purpose

The Standards and Practices Working Group will work to facilitate a community-wide understanding of the role and benefit of standards in digital preservation and how to use them effectively to ensure durable and usable collections. The Group will also develop, recommend, promote, and disseminate information about effective methods for selecting, organizing, describing, managing, preserving and serving digital content, in collaboration with other individuals and organizations where appropriate.

Current Scope of Work

Working group members may initiate and engage in new work at any time by forming Action Teams focused on specific projects or tasks.


1. Survey and document the digital preservation standards landscape

This is an ambitious and on-going project using Wikipedia to promote the use of digital preservation standards and best practices. The objectives are to:

  • identify and describe existing digital preservation standards and best practices
  • identify gaps in digital preservation standards and best practices coverage that could be addressed by this working group in collaboration with others
  • sustain this activity by building a community of Wikipedians to join us in this activity


The categories of digital preservation standards and best practices we will focus on include:

  • Content models
  • Content packaging
  • Content transfer
  • Digital preservation strategies and techniques
  • Digital preservation terms and concepts
  • File formats
  • Encodings
  • Metadata exchange
  • Metadata schemas
  • Repository architecture
  • Repository certification and trustworthiness
  • Repository operations
  • Repository policies


Specific activities and deliverables of this project include:

  • creation and maintenance of a Digital Preservation "WikiProject" within Wikipedia as an umbrella for collaborating with others on this project
  • redevelop the current Wikipedia "Digital Preservation" page so that it can serve as an appropriate launch page to more detailed information about standards and best practices
  • create / update pages describing current standards and best practices in the field of digital preservation
  • consult with others involved in digital preservation to encourage their input and contributions to the effort
  • report back to the NDSA steering committee with updates and proposals as to how to continue this effort into the future


Links related to this project:

2. Survey of digital preservation staffing


3. Survey on adoption of digital preservation standards and best practices


4. Related action team on distributed digital preservation


Meeting Schedules, Minutes and Agendas

NDSA Standards Working Group Listserv Archives

The archives of the Standards Working Group Listserv can be found here (login will be required): http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?A0=NDSA-STANDARDS&X=25F57E4CACD543490D&Y


Workshops


Deprecated pages kept for historical reasons

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