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NE NDSA Workshop

This workshop provides simple, practical, and documented levels of preservation services reflecting best practices. It is useful for those just starting out and those with mature programs, and is independent of formats and storage systems.

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NE NDSA Workshop

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  1. NE NDSA Workshop WGBH, Boston MA May 10, 2013 Andrea Goethals, Harvard Library

  2. NDS* • NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation • NDSR Boston

  3. Levels of Digital Preservation Guidelines created by the NDSA

  4. NDSA Diverse working groups Content Standards & Practices Outreach Innovation Infrastructure

  5. Common Need Content Standards & Practices Outreach Levels of Digital Preservation Innovation Infrastructure

  6. Common Need • Simple, practical, documented levels of preservation services reflecting best practices, broadlyuseful • For those just starting out & those with mature programs • Independent of formats, storage systems • Useful to educators & implementers

  7. Niche

  8. Levels of Digital Preservation, v1

  9. Levels of Digital Preservation, v1 Bit-level Protection Longer-term Usability

  10. Levels of Digital Preservation, v1 http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities/levels.html

  11. Storage and Geographic Location

  12. File Fixity and Data Integrity

  13. Information Security

  14. Metadata

  15. File Formats

  16. Some Uses • Identify community consensus on best practices • Preservation service choices • Assessments – how do we compare with best practices? • What should we improve next? • Where do we excel? • How will we improve after project X? • How have we improved over time?

  17. Self-assessment example = satisfied with implementation = implemented but could be improved = not implemented = will be satisfied with implementation after current enhancement project

  18. How you can help: provide feedback! • Revisions will continue until the Levels stabilize on a broad professional consensus. • Comments received by 8/31/2013 can affect the next revision • Send comments by e-mailing the addresses listed at http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities/levels.html

  19. NDSR Boston IMLS-funded Residency Project

  20. NDSR DC • National Digital Stewardship Residency • New residency program created by the Library of Congress (LC) with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) • To develop the next generation of stewards to collect, manage, preserve and make accessible our digital assets

  21. Residency Model Highlights • Cohort model (social learning) • Focus on digital stewardship • Graduates of any masters program • Round out what’s needed for a successful career • Hands-on experience with real projects in real world settings • Building of portfolio, professional network, presentation skills • Directly beneficial to host institutions • Projects proposed by them • Collaborate with the other host institutions • Exposure to program training material, resident tools

  22. NDSR DC • 10 Washington D.C.-area hosts • Project proposals • 10 recent master’s graduates • Apply and choose top 3

  23. Developing and promoting policies and services to make digital assets of research libraries accessible (Association of Research Libraries) • Management and preservation of digital assets (Dumbarton Oaks) • Born-digital preservation (Folger Shakespeare Library) • Taking action to mitigate format obsolescence (Library of Congress) • Developing a thematic web archive collection (National Library of Medicine) • The digital dissemination challenge (National Security Archive) • Broadcast media archive: appraisal and evaluation of at-risk media to support digitization initiative (PBS) • Time-based media art: specialized requirements for trustworthy digital repositories (Smithsonian Institution Archives) • Accessing born-digital literary materials (University of Maryland Libraries and MITH) • eArchives: memory of the world bank (World Bank Group Archives)

  24. NDSR DC: Residency • Begins with an intensive 2-week immersion workshop at LC on digital stewardship • Residents transfer to 1 of 10 Wash. D.C. institutions for 9 months • Hands-on experience working on digital stewardship project(s) • With the cohort attend guest lectures, field trips, make presentations • Start to build portfolio and professional network

  25. NDSR DC: Timeframe • Hosts already identified • Selected residents will be notified next week • Sept. 2013: Immersion workshop • Sept 2013 – May 2014: Residency

  26. Replicating the model • IMLS-funded grants • Two geographic areas • NDSR Boston (Harvard / MIT) • NDSR New York (METRO)

  27. NDSR Boston • Timeframe (June 2013 – June 2016) • Year 1: planning • Year 2: 1st round of residents • April 2014: Hosts identified for 1stround • Year 3: 2nd round of residents • April 2015: Hosts identified for 2nd round

  28. NDSR Boston • Coordinated by an academic inst. (Harvard) • Produce curriculum resources and model documents • Train-the-Trainers workshop • Great environment for residents • Public transportation system • Rich with potential host institutions • Many potential guest lecturers, site visits

  29. Thanks!

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