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]
Team Members
- Baker, Timothy D. | Maryland State Archives | timb@MDSA.NET
- Baringer, Kathryn | Maryland State Archives | <kathryn.baringer@maryland.gov>
- Dietrich, Chris | National Park Service | Chris_Dietrich@nps.gov
- Gish, Jason | Testronic Labratories | jason.gish@testroniclabs.com
- Faundeen, John, Archivist | U.S. Geological Survey | faundeen@usgs.gov
- Harrison, Anne | Federal Library & Information Center Committee (FLICC) | anha@loc.gov
- Klein, Kris | Digital Programs Consultant, California State Library | kklein@LIBRARY.CA.GOV
- Maes, Margaret | Legal Information Preservation Alliance | mkmaes@gmail.com
- Swanton, Abbigail | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction | abbigail.swanton@dpi.wi.gov
- Stierholz, Katrina | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | katrina.l.stierholz@stls.frb.org
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
Last meeting October 25, 2012
August 31st at 1:00 PM EDT.
July 13, 2012 19th 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Meeting Minutes
July 13th conference call notes