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

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

Case Studies

• The Government team is working on a case study on land records, including Maryland land records and geospacial records, with a focus on issues of cooperation between local and state people and groups.

• Anne Harrison from FEDLINK is also working on a case study on trying to preserve history of legislation: hearings, publications, etc. A description of this content and needs will be drafted in case study format.

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:

March 5, 2013 at 10:30 AM EST

October 25, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST

January 10th, 2013 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

August 31st at 1:00 PM EDT.

July 13, 2012 19th 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Meeting Minutes

July 13th conference call notes

Documents

• "At Risk" statement July 13, 2012