NDSA:December 21, 2015 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

Link to Recording

Recording: -

Participants

• Andrea Goethals (notes)
• Amy Kirchoff
• Bethany Nowviskie
• Carol Kussman
• Erin Engle
• Felicity Dykas
• Jenny Mullins
• John Spencer
• Karen Cariani
• Kate Murray
• Meg Phillips
• Michelle Paolillo
• Oliver Bendorf
• Winston Atkins

Meet Those New to the Group

• Bethany Nowviskie, Director of DLF since April 2015
• Oliver Bendorf, Program Associate, DLF since August 2015

Update on the NDSA and transition to DLF hosting (Bethany, Oliver, Erin)

• Independent NDSA website in development - will launch in January 2016
• Listserv in transition - will launch in January 2016
• Working group calls will use DLF's uber conference account - will be set up by January 2016
• DLF has started planning for the annual NDSA meeting which will be hooked onto the DLF forum in early November 2016
• The wiki is being transitioned over - should be ready the first week of January 2016 - will have the same look and feel

Relay of the CNI panel discussion (NDSA on the Move, Bethany and Oliver)

Presentation: "Emulation and Virtualization for Digital Preservation and Access"

• Representatives from the Coordinating Committee (Micah, Robin, Abby) talked about why DLF was chosen
• Bethany and Oliver from DLF talked about why they answered the call
• Summary of the feedback at CNI:
  • A terrain map of how DLF, CLIR, NDSA and others fit together is needed
  • People want ot know how to get more involved with the NDSA WGs
  • People have preferred the practical NDSA products over the theoretical

Feedback from S and P WG for DLF

• What WG things have you liked?
  • Several people said the Levels of Preservation and Fixity report
  • Knowing that we all have the same issues
  • Cross-WG activities
  • Want to continue to try to collaborate with commercial companies
• Any feedback on the monthly calls? Should they be monthly or scheduled as needed to work on projects?
  • Several people said that they liked having monthly calls. One reason given is that it provides a beneficial pressure to get things done.
  • Several liked the showcases (e.g. speakers on video, digital art, email)
  • A couple people thought the WG would benefit from adding agenda planning meetings a few times a year to brainstorm topics, which would also take some of the burden off the co-chairs)

Q&A

Q1. I haven't heard of people talk about using emulation for archived email. Have you done any work on this or are you starting to explore it?

A1. I have opened a PST in an emulated Outlook but haven't tried to show it within the context of the whole email account which would be interesting. With email there are some issues - the appraisal of it and the scale of it.