NDSA:New Work

Ideas for new projects:

• Certifications (e.g. TRAC, DRAMBORA, ISO 16363:2012)
  • Hear from institutions who have gone through certification?
  • Discuss merits/issues related to current certification processes & methods
• Adoption of standards (which standards are institutions using?)
• Terms of service (e.g., committment to URL persistence)
• File formats (specifically PDF/A-3)
  • See the LC Signal link blog post
  • Is PDF a good packaging format? If not, what's better? If so, what are some best practices that the preserving community can push out that will guide PDF creators to the benefit of long-term preservation?
  • Where and when PDF/A-3 is a suitable decision?
• Analyze the relationship between the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation document and other digital preservation levels/stages work. Meg Phillips, Andrea Goethals, Jefferson Bailey, and Trevor Owen put together a proposal for an Archiving 2013 paper cover the first three of the models listed below, so they're going to dive into this a bit, but the analysis and discussion can/should be wider. Possible models for comparison include:
  • Nancy McGovern and Anne Kenney’s “The Five Organizational Stages of Digital Preservation,”
  • Charles Dollar and Lori Ashley’s “Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model,”
  • OCLC Research’s 2012 report, “You’ve Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media.”
  • NDSA's CURATEcamp output related to "minimal processing for electronic records" described in a couple of blog posts in The Signal (is there some relationship between minimal processing and the first stage of digital preservation? Shouldn't there be?)