The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Agenda

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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Agenda

• Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners Meeting
• Abigail Potter
• National Digital Information Infrastructure and
  Preservation Program Library of Congress

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Overview

• NDSA
• National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
• How to Get Involved

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NDSA

• The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is a
  collaborative effort to preserve a distributed
  national digital collection for the benefit of
  generations now and in the future.
• The mission of the National Digital
  Stewardship Alliance is to establish, maintain,
  and advance the capacity to preserve our nations
  digital resources for the benefit of present and
  future generations.
• www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa

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NDSA the Library of Congress

• U.S. Congress (1789 present)
• Library of Congress (1800 present)
• NDIIPP (2000 present)
• NDSA (2010 present)

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Objectives

• Membership network of over 160 partners taking
  stewardship action toward three primary
  objectives
• Identifying, communicating and advocating for
  common needs of member organizations.
• Convening and sustaining a national community of
  practice for digital stewardship.
• Providing lightweight professional development
  for staff at member organizations.
• www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa

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Regional Members
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How We Work Together

• 5 Working Groups
• Elected Coordinating Committee
• Supported by Secretariat/NDIIPP

www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups
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How We Work Together

• NDSA Coordinating Committee
• Micah Altman, MIT
• Jonathan Crabtree, Odum Institute, UNC-Chapel
  Hill
• Jim Corridan, Indiana Commission on Public
  Records
• Meg Phillips, National Archives
• Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
• John Spencer, BMS/Chace
• Helen Tibbo, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Kate Wittenberg, Portico

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Output

• Reports and Guidance Materials
• Levels of Digital Preservation, the NDSA Storage
  Survey, the NDSA Staffing Survey, Issues in the
  Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data
  Report, Web Archiving Survey
• Meetings and Events
• NDSA Regional Meetings (Past Philadelphia, NYC
  and Boston. Upcoming Chicago)
• Digital Preservation 2014 July 22-23
• Knowledge Sharing
• Monthly or bi-monthly calls and briefings, demos
  and presentations on tools, techniques and
  approaches
• www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities/

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What Have We Done Lately?

• 2014 National Agenda For Digital Stewardship
• Storage Survey
• Levels of Preservation Activity
• Report Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of
  Geospatial Data
• Web Archiving Survey
• Digital Preservation in a Box resource kit
• Annual Innovation Awards
• Report Staffing For Effective Digital
  Preservation
• Report "The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3
  File Format for Archival Institutions
• Report "Geospatial Data Stewardship Key Online
  Resources"
• www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities/

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Agenda A list or program of things to be done
or considered The Free Dictionary
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What is the National Agenda

• The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
  integrates the perspective of dozens of experts
  and hundreds of institutions, convened through
  the Library of Congress, to provide funders and
  other executive decision-makers with insight into
  emerging technological trends, gaps in digital
  stewardship capacity, and key areas for
  development.

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National Agenda Topic Areas

• Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
• Digital Content Areas
• Technical Infrastructure Development
• Research Priorities

www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/nationalagenda
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Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices

• Work together to raise the profile of digital
  preservation and campaign for more resources and
  higher priority given to digital preservation
• Highlight the importance of digital curation and
  the real costs of ensuring long term access
• Coordinate to develop comprehensive coverage on
  critical standards bodies
• Promote systematic community monitoring of
  technology changes relevant to digital
  preservation

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Organizational Examples

• NDSA Report Staffing for Effective Digital
  Preservation
• National Digital Stewardship Residency
• POWRR Preserving (Digital) Objects With
  Restricted Resources

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Digital Content Areas

• Electronic Records
• Research Data
• Web and Social Media
• Moving Image and Recorded Sound

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Digital Content Areas Examples

• Web Archiving Survey (report in 2014)
• Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of
  Geospatial Data report

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Technical Infrastructure Development

• File Format Action Plan Development
• Many formats to manage
• Standards needed/guidelines
• Interoperability and Portability in Storage
  Architectures
• Integration of Digital Forensics Tools
• Research needed
• Ensuring Content Integrity (Migration, Fixity
  checks)

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Tech Arch Examples

• Levels of Preservation guidance
• Designing Storage Architectures Meeting
• Work to define fixity
• PDF/A report
• Geospatial report

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Research Areas

• Applied Research for Cost Modeling Audit
  Modeling
• Understanding Information Equivalence and
  Significance
• Policy Research and Trust Frameworks
• Preservation at Scale
• Strengthening the Evidence Base

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What can I do with the Agenda?

• Policy driver
• Suggest collaborative opportunities
• Funding driver
• Makes the case for stewardship to decision-makers
• Communication tool that catalyzes digital
  stewardship activity
• Useful tool to start conversation

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Get Involved

• Join the NDSA
• No membership fees
• Ask for your participation
• Contribute to NDSA Open Calls for Participation!
• Let us know what you need
• ndsa_at_loc.gov
• www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa

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Thanks!
Abigail Potter abpo_at_loc.gov

• The Signal blog
• blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/

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