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Katherine Skinner, Educopia InstituteEmily Gore, Clemson University
U.S. Workshop on Roadmap for Digital Preservation Interoperability FrameworkNIST, Gaithersburg, MD March 29, 2010
Chronicles in Distributed Digital Preservation
A distributed digital preservation cooperative for digital archives
Founded in 2004; supported by combination of sponsored funding (NDIIPP, NHPRC), consulting fees, and membership fees
Provides digital preservation infrastructure and training and models to enable other groups to establish similar networks
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Cultural memory organizations must maintain their historical role as cultural stewards Preservation of digital assets as corollary to
preserving physical ones Need in house expertise and knowledge Value of curators and librarians and archivists
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Capitalize on cultural memory organization’s proven preservation methodologies Replication of content Distribution of content Partnership to keep costing affordable
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Current MembersAuburn UniversityBoston CollegeClemson UniversityFlorida State UniversityFolger Shakespeare LibraryGeorgia TechLibrary of CongressPenn State UniversityPUC Rio de JaneiroRice UniversityUniversity of HullUniversity of LouisvilleUniversity of North TexasUniversity of South CarolinaVirginia Tech
Current AffiliatesLibrary of CongressNDLTDSDSC Chronopolis
reducing our short- and long-term costs Investing in a commonly-owned solution, not purchasing a
service Sharing technological development and organizational tasks
decentralizing our activities Safety in this “brave new world” of digital preservation may
well reside in shared knowledge and shared commitment
decreasing dependence on third-party solutions There is room for various types of solutions Increased capacity for acting as a community of cultural
stewards
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501(c)(3) host, Board of DirectorsSteering Committee
Comprised of Sustaining MembersWorking Committees
Content Preservation Technical
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Archives based on subjects and genres Proposals considered by Content
Committee and approved by the Steering Committee
Current archives include: Southern Digital Culture Archive ETD Archive (with NDLTD) Early and Modern Literature Archive Newspaper Archive General Archive
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Some genres of content may need specific types of attention in the preservation process E.g., ETDs, E-Records, Datasets,
Newspapers
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Why Newspapers? NDNP placing focus on newspaper digitization
and establishing best practices Prior to and outside of NDNP, universities
digitize newspapers to varying standards, many of which include article-level encoding or even TEI
Today’s newspapers are born-digital and in some have moved to digital-only – NDNP focuses primarily on historic newspaper digitization
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Member-driven archival designation Current members with newspaper
collections Penn State University* Clemson University Virginia Tech Georgia Tech Boston College University of North Texas*
*NDNP participants
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Not “ideal” collections—”real” collections! Both born-digital and digitized content Digitized are encoded using varying
encoding levels, corrected and uncorrected OCR and different display systems
Born-digital, range of formats and metadata
All stored in myriad ways/systems
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text
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Penn State – showing article level encoding & segmentation
Study needs of digital newspaper collection curators & status of current collections
Create preservation tools & best practices based on findings that can be widely used
Implement these tools & best practices in our Digital Newspaper Archive and provide documentation for others seeking to preserve digital newspapers
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Survey, 2009 Seek advice on appraisal, selection, and
prioritization of material Need assistance in moving content safely from
their repository systems (including vendor-based) into a preservation environment
Survey, 2010 appraisal and prioritization issues, existing or
planned practices, intellectual property issues
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Develop data model and best practices for specific issues of concern in collaborative newspaper preservation efforts appraisal and prioritization of content metadata data structures intellectual property considerations inter-organizational agreements related to
distributed preservation networks
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Standards & Specifications METS (Library of Congress) and BagIt
(CDL and Library of Congress) Tools
enable content exchanges between leading newspaper repository systems (including Olive, CONTENTdm, DigiTool, and DSpace) and LOCKSS
Recovery pathways
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Katherine Skinner404-783-2534katherine.skinner@metaarchive.org
Emily Gore864-656-3622egore@clemson.edu
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