NDSA:Government Content Team

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Scope

The Government Content Team is interested in the preservation of U.S. local, state, federal born. The focus of the group is to identify best practices for all phases of the lifecycle of government records from creation, appraisal, guidance on formats, transfers of records along with their provenance and individual file content metadata, ingest and processing transfers into the archives, description of records, archival storage, versioning, risk assessment and planning, preservation actions like making transformations, and enabling access digital content.

Team Facilitators

• McAninch, Glen | Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives | Glen.McAninch@ky.gov [co-facilitator]
• Reib, Linda | Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records | lreib@LIB.AZ.US [co-facilitator]

Team Members

• Baker, Timothy D. | Maryland State Archives | timb@MDSA.NET
• Stierholz, Katrina |Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | katrina.l.stierholz@stls.frb.org
• Klein, Kris | Digital Programs Consultant, California State Library | kklein@LIBRARY.CA.GOV
• Maes, Margaret | Legal Information Preservation Alliance | mkmaes@gmail.com
• Kepley, David | NARA | david.kepley@nara.gov
• Faundeen, John, Archivist | U.S. Geological Survey | faundeen@usgs.gov
• Seneca,Tracy | California Digital Library | tracy.seneca@ucop.edu
• Harrison, Anne | Federal Library & Information Center Committee (FLICC) | anha@loc.gov
• Swanton, Abbigail | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction | abbigail.swanton@dpi.wi.gov
• Gish, Jason | Testronic Labratories | jason.gish@testroniclabs.com

Current Activities

From May 16, 2012 meeting:

Action Items

• Consider effort toward appraisal: particularly what kind of data needs to be preserved.

• Determine what kind of permanent data is best used in electronic format for future use.

• Develop the case for records creator’s best practices.

• Establish best practice for preserving electronic records including replication, integrity checking and migration/format management.

Meetings

Next meeting Friday 13th 1PM - 2 PM EDT.

Last meeting was May 16, 2012 19th 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Meeting Minutes

Government_Content_subgroup_statement_Notes_added_from_July_13_2012_meeting_(2).pdf‎ |July meeting