What is NDIIPP doing?

July 7th, Web-At-Risk is opening its archives for public access, having captured nearly 6 TB of data—the

entire CA State Government Web, the CA Recall Election, Hurricane Katrina

and more.

The MetaArchive project is now the MetaArchive Cooperative, a

sustainable independent digital preservation alliance of cultural

memory organizations.

Venit, Vidit, Reservavit!

Chronopolis is replicating data from 4 NDIIPP partners at 3 geographically

diverse sites, incorporating monitoring tools for data providers and

implementing long-term planning for data preservation.

VidArch is capturing YouTube-based videos preserving their

context through the ContextMiner tool.

LOCKSS and Library of Congress staff are working together on the audit

processes, Federal Information Processing Standard Certification and Accreditation for categorizing security

risks of federal information and systems (FIPS 199).

The operating agreement finalizing the creation of the Brobeck Closed

Archive has been signed. Initial data are due at the Birth of the

Dot.Com Era project at University of Maryland any day.

The JHOVE2 team has compiled a set functional requirements that have

been reviewed by the community and completed a number of design

iterations to codify the core architecture; an initial code release

for community review is forthcoming.

SCOLA is expanding the collecting activities of foreign news

broadcasts, continuing to improve online user interface, and

discussing how to provide the Library with higher resolution

versions.

WNET/Thirteen in New York, leaders of the Preserving Public Television Project, is engaged in the new all-digital, file-based program World

Focus produced at Thirteen.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive continues to plan their symposium and workshop on

preserving digital-format independent film.

BMS/Chace recently featured a review of the list of proposed data

elements by members of the 13 audio Producers and Engineers

chapters of the Recording Academy.

The Motion Picture Academy partners staged an all-day symposium on moving image metadata in Los

Angeles and have been analyzing their holdings of high resolution digital

footage in terms of preservation and repository work.

What is NDIIPP doing?

ASMP--a trade association promoting the adoption and use of XMP

embedded metadata by professional photographers—is researching ways

application software handles metadata and will soon present findings on best practices and

workflows to its members.

ARTstor -- building a library of images of fine art and architecture

—is focusing on the documentation, validation, and extraction of embedded XMP

metadata provided by their photographers.

SAA--a trade association for professional photographers--has

completed a photo metadata usage survey of its members and has

launched an outreach campaign to educate members through the Web

site photometadata.org.

SAA is seeking greater adoption of embedded XMP metadata and is hosting an outreach meeting in

the Washington area this Thursday evening.

Universal Press Syndicate transferred the Doonesbury

cartoon archive to LC using BagIt specification and is preparing to

transmit the Pat Oliphant archive soon.

ODU/LANL completed CRATE mod_oai --a self-contained, fully automated, preservation-ready

version of the web resource, created at time of capture.

The ECHO DEP projects are exploring repository

interoperability frameworks, automated extraction of

metadata, preservation risks of digital file formats, and archiving

of semantic content through generations of encoding.

Preserving Virtual Worlds Project is investigating how communities of game developers and players can work with cultural repositories to increase access to user-generated

content and handle scaling issues for archives of born-digital game and

virtual world content.

The Data-PASS partners are working with a prototype syndicated storageplatform for redundant backup of

digital holdings, as well as archivingover 700 social science data

collections in the Data-PASS shared catalog.

The Multi-State Preservation Consortium is adding the Nevada

State Archive, Nevada State Library, and the North Carolina

State Library as new partners and continues to ingest new content

from all the partners.

PeDALS has performed an initial content ingest and is working on

updating the automated business rules for future content ingests.

NGDA continues to refine its work on ingest, storage, access and the geospatial format registry and is

also exploring adding new members to the NGDA federation.

The Minnesota Preserving State Government Information project has developed a core legislative

XML schema to facilitate the programmable Web.

The NDIIPP Program Management team is working on the 2010 Report, Digital Preservation

Training and Outreach, and an Access Demonstration Project.