NDSA:Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Infrastructure Working Group Call, March 29, 2012, 2pm-3pm

Attending

• Andrea Goethels, Harvard University
• Dean Farrell, UNC
• Jefferson Bailey, Library of Congress
• John Spenser, BMS Chase
• Micah Altman, MIT
• Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
• Corey Snavely, University of Michigan
• Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
• Karen Cariani, WGBH
• Robin Trenbeath, State of Montana

Action Items

1. Bit level preservation risks presenters will finish their slides for the upcoming NDIIPP/NDSA meeting and circulate them to the discussion list for discussion at the next call
2. The Levels of Preservation cross alliance team members will continue working on their draft document to prepare it for a session at the upcoming NDIIPP/NDSA meeting
3. Robin volunteered to send information on the results of the Western States Contracting Alliance RFP for cloud computing once they are available
4. Karen has volunteered to pick up some of Open Source project work, but will likely not get to it until July.
5. Jefferson is drafting the final blog post on our old friend the storage survey, once that is done we will review the posts as a whole and consider putting them together as a document
6. Everyone is invited to suggest and brainstorm future projects. Feel free to post new ideas to the page.

Discussion Notes

1. Report out on Bit Level threats project planning The four person team met earlier this month. They are planning a series of five minute lightning talks each focusing on a particular bit preservation issue, or industry perspective. The slides for these presentations will be the primary subject of next months call. The hope here is to focus on a central question, how do you optimally allocate dollars for a given level of risk. In this case, idenfitying and clarifying trad-offs between different approaches.

2. Levels of preservation project The levels of preservation project group met for a very productive call. You can read up on their ongoing work at NDSA:Levels_of_preservation.

3. Open Source Project This project hasn't really seen any additional movement in the last month. Given everything else going on it is not likely to get more attention this month. Karen volunteered to look at kick starting the project again in July.

4. Putting a bow on the storage survey work We have a series of blog posts, with one more final post coming. It was suggested that it would be valuable to pull all of these posts together. It was also suggested that it might be worth thinking about bringing these into conversation with some of our earlier writing on the subject. Once the last post is up, we will at least aggregate these posts into a single report and put that PDF up on digitalpreservation.gov for folks to refer to as the canonical outcome from the project.