Trustworthy Repositories, Organizations & Infrastructure Micah Altman, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University Jonathan Crabtree, Odum Institute, University of North Carolina Nancy McGovern, ICPSR, University of Michigan Prepared for Library of Congress Digital Preservation Partnership Meeting July 2010

Collaborators* Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure2  Margaret Adams, Caroline Arms, Ed Bachman, Adam Buchbinder, Ken Bollen, Bryan Beecher, Steve Burling, Darrell Donakowski, Myron Gutmann, Gary King, Patrick King, Jared Lyle, Marc Maynard, Amy Pienta, Lois Timms-Ferrarra.  Research Support Thanks to the Library of Congress (PA#NDP03-1), the National Science Foundation (DMS , SES ), IMLS (LG ), the Harvard University Library, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and the Murray Research Archive. * And co-conspirators

Related Work Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure3  Reprints available from:  Altman, M., Beecher, B., and Crabtree, J.; with L. Andreev, E. Bachman, A. Buchbinder, S. Burling, P. King, M. Maynard.. (2009). "A Prototype Platform for Policy-Based Archival Replication." Against the Grain. 21(2):  Altman, M., Adams, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., Maynard, M., Pienta, A., & Young, C. (2009). "Digital preservation through archival collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences." The American Archivist. 72(1):  Myron Gutmann, Abrahamson, M, Adams, M.O., Altman, M, Arms, C., Bollen, K., Carlson, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., King, G., Lyle, J., Maynard, M., Pienta, A., Rockwell, R, Timms- Ferrara L., Young, C., "From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the challenges of preserving digital social science data", Library Trends 57(3):  Micah Altman, "Transformative Effects of NDIIPP, the case of the Henry A. Murray Archive", Library Trends 57(3):

Preservation and Collaboration -- Three Big Questions  Risks.  How do virtual organizations reduce preservation risks?  Trust.  What trust relationships should virtual organizations establish with members?  Evaluation.  How can we evaluate relationships with virtual organizations be evaluated? Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure4

Conjectures  Organizations reduce preservation risk by:  Providing systematic redundancy across diverse …  Technical approaches: software, hardware, formats  Institutional environments: funding models, legal regime  Institutional control: curation, deaccessioning  Enhancing preservation readiness:  Awareness of risks and risk management approaches  Awareness & use of best practices  Active exercise of cataloging information, licensing terms, API’s  Trust and evaluation should be based on:  Linking policy objectives to explicitly-defined roles, actions, and expected outcomes  Continuous evaluation and monitoring based on organizational incentives, capacity, & commitments Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure5

One tool… SAFE-Archive Policy-Based Replication & Auditing Facilitating collaborative replication and preservation with technology…  Collaborators declare explicit non- uniform resource commitments  Policy records commitments, storage network properties  Storage layer provides replication, integrity, freshness, versioning  SAFE-Archive software provides monitoring, auditing, and provisioning  Content is harvested through HTTP (LOCKSS) or OAI-PMH  Integration of LOCKSS, The Dataverse Network, TRAC Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure6

Whythis tool?  To facilitate institutions in making commitments aligned with their policies and incentives, and  Automatically executeand monitor those commitments and policies Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure7

Contact Us Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure8 Micah Altman maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu Jonathan Crabtree Nancy McGovern

Policy and evaluation.  What policies should members adopt to the use of collaboratives in their preservation strategy?  How should members document the ways in which collaboratives support their preservation strategy?  When a preservation strategy relies on a collaborative, how should evaluators approach assessment of the collaborative?  Examination of risks  Which preservation risks are collaboratives/virtual organizations in the best position to mitigate?  What additional risks do virtual organizations and collaboratives create?  How do characteristics of a collaborative, such as geographical diversity affect its ability to reduce preservation risks for its members?  How do we define “Trust” in …….  preservation partners  preservation technologies and components  preservation collaborations  Trust but Verify  How can collaborations balance trust and risk?  What evidence is required to substantiate trust?  Audit Reports?  MOU’s?  Contracts? Trusted Repositories, Organizations and Infrastructure9