CIL2012: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program: Overview and Tools

Presenting are Butch and Trevor from the Library of Congress.

Butch did an overview of NDIIPP.

• Started about 11 years ago with six partners.
• Funded research efforts.
• National Digital Stewardship Alliance.
• Need to collect now for use in the future.
• Digital preservation - the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for s long as necessary.
• Stewardship - Whole life-cycle of digital information.
• Need to now who the first responders are in stewarding a specific collection.
• A content-centric view of the universe.  How can organization's think about stewardship when content is created?

Five areas of interest:

• Sustainability
• National Digital Collections (Projects / areas of interest)
• Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act - Federal and state level interest in preserving laws, etc.
• Maps and geography
• News, media and journalism
• Local news is generated in many different ways.  How do you identify them and then preserve them?
• Build preservation tools into content creation tools.
• Who has the responsibility for stewarding scientific data?
• Personal digital archiving - how can people preserve their own information?  Have released a kit that people can use.
• Partnerships: Government, industry, academia
• Need to develop a shared language
• National Digital Stewardship Alliance - taking the existing partnerships and using them to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of citizens now and in the future.  A bottoms up approach.
• Over 110 member organizations and growing.
• Light-weight membership agreement.  No money changes hands.
• Need to agree to participate.  To do.
• Benefits:
• Have a voice
• Share knowledge
• Drive action
• Learn from experts
• Impact change
• Five working groups - members participate on these groups.  Can participate on several,
• Content
• Infrastructure
• Innovation
• Outreach
• Standards and practices
• Technical infrastructure
• Duraspace
• Memento - move through time on the web.  Plug-in currently for Firefox.  

Explore and share cultural heritage collection with viewshare.org

• Free service for people who are working in cultural heritage
• Thinking about data and seeing relationships.
• Free and open platform for creating dynamic visual interfaces to digital collections.
• Contains maps, timelines, lists, galleries and charts
• Can be embedded to the web site
• Different ways of pivoting through the data
• When you build an interface, you end up learning a lot more about your collection
• Workflow
• Import data
• Augment the data - Create what sounds like a crosswalk
• Build
• Share link
• Make data corrections

 Question about certifying trusted digital repositories.

• The certification process is pretty "heavy weight".
• Trust should show through your actions.
• Certification helps people know your capabilities and intent.
• However, perfect can be the enemy of the good.
• Believer in the LOCKSS concept.
• Does certification provide the organization (being certified) with value?

Slides have a lot of content.  Slides will be made available through the Information Today web site.