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NDIIPP: Future Directions and Relevance to Other Countries. Beth Dulabahn Office of Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress November 7, 2004. NDIIPP Legislation and Funding. Created by federal legislation (PL 106-554) in December 2000 $100 million in appropriated funds
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NDIIPP: Future Directions and Relevance to Other Countries Beth Dulabahn Office of Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress November 7, 2004
NDIIPP Legislation and Funding • Created by federal legislation (PL 106-554) in December 2000 • $100 million in appropriated funds • Up to $175 million potentially invested • $75 million of the appropriated funds subject to $ for $ match from non-federal sources
NDIIPP Goals • Develop a national digital collection and preservation strategy • Work with government agencies, libraries, archives, and other stakeholders to establish partnerships and form networks • Help identify and preserve at-risk digital content • Support development of tools, models, and methods for digital preservation
Who’s Included? • Key federal agencies (including NARA, NLM, NAL, Commerce) • Libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions • Non-profit entities (e.g., RLG, OCLC, CLIR) • Non-federal and commercial sectors (e.g., motion picture studios, record labels, publishers)
Initial Activities • Established the NDSAB in Spring 2001 • Representation from federal agencies, industry, research libraries and foundations • Convened Stakeholder Meetings in Fall 2001 • 3 workshops including representatives from the commercial sector • Commissioned environmental scans • Conducted Scenario Planning sessions • Defined preservation architecture space • Facilitated a National Science Foundation research agenda • Developed Plan & presented to Congress 2003
NDIIPP Strategy • Iterative approach • Learn by doing
NDIIPP Focus Areas • Preservation architecture • Digital preservation research • Network of preservation partners
Preservation Architecture • Architecture is a conceptual framework to guide development of national preservation network • Build upon current work • Provide basis for communication about the problem space
Archive Ingest and Handling Test • Document steps taken to ingest heterogeneous set of digital content • Testers have digital preservation capabilities: Johns Hopkins, Old Dominion, Harvard, Stanford • Each to work with GMU 9/11 Archive • 12gb with 57,000 objects associated metadata • Diverse file formats • Identify metrics for ensuring preservation of data integrity/document logical integrity
Archive Test Activities • Accept archive as-is • Generate metadata • Ingest content into the archive • Migrate/emulate content as applicable to each archive • Export content/metadata out of the archive
Archive Test Outcomes • List of logical candidate architectures for future work • Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each • Rough dollar cost figures for each solution • Grasp of the possibilities and challenges of federating
Research Program • Joint LC/National Science Foundation (NSF) digital preservation research grants program • NSF administers • Agenda shaped by It’s About Time report • Looking to fund cutting edge research to address major needs • Proposals due 9/14/2004; peer review panels evaluating submissions • Grants to be announced early 2005
NDIIPP Partnerships • Agreements finalized Sept. 2004 • Eight consortia involving over 30 partners • State government entities • Universities • Cultural heritage institutions • Private & not-for-profit • Awards totaling $15+ million • Projects expected to last 3 years • Aim is to spur collaboration in selecting and preserving at-risk content
Diversity of Content • Funded projects will work with diverse and challenging content, including • TV broadcasts and digital video • Web sites • State and local government information • Geospatial data • Social science data
NDIIPP Partner Projects with Web Harvesting Components • The Web at Risk: A Distributed Approach to Preserving Our Nation’s Political Cultural Heritage • California Digital Library, lead • University of North Texas, New York University • State & local gov’t publications, political campaigns, labor history, former federal agency sites • Develop tools for selection and acquisition
NDIIPP Partner Projects with Web Harvesting Components (Cont.) • Exploring Collaborations to Harness Objects with a Digital Environment for Preservation • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, lead • OCLC; Tufts University; Michigan State, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina, and Wisconsin State libraries • Collect Web-based state gov’t agency publications • Develop tools for selection, acquisition, and access • Test existing repository architectures (Dspace, Greenstone, FEDORA, Eprints)
The Next NDIIPP Area of Investment… • State and Local Governments • Currently in planning phase • Plan to award $$ to states through IMLS
Achievements at End of 5 Years • A network of 50-75 partners • Vast archive of at-risk content • Recommendations to Congress on long-term governance of a national digital preservation