NDSA:December 16, 2013 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes
New Members
Project Status
"What are you working on" -- Roundtable Discussion (continued)
Common Themes from our Roundtable Discussion
- Repository infrastructure and tools
- Specific tools: BagIt (LC, Georgetown Law, ITHAKA)
- Specific repository platforms: Fedora
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)