The National Digital
Stewardship Alliance Agenda
Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners Meeting
Abigail Potter
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
Library of Congress
Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, March 14, 2014
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 nation’s 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
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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?
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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
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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
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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 decisionmakers
• 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@loc.gov
www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa
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Thanks!
Abigail Potter
abpo@loc.gov
The Signal blog
blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/
@ndiipp
@NDSA2
www.facebook/digitalpreservation
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