Content Transfer NDIIPP Meeting July 9, 2008 Jane Mandelbaum, LC

2 Panel Members Stephen Abrams, CDL Keith Johnson, Stanford Justin Mathena, UCSB Joe Pawletko, NYU Brian Vargas, LC

3 2008: Year of Content Content Transfer with LC as a Partner and Recipient Building Content Management Workflows and “Best Practices”

4 Content Transfer: What We’ve Been Doing and How Transfer: What We Mean Send Us A Copy of Some Content “Bag and Tag” Gather It Up, Label It and Get it To Us. We Will Keep it In an Archival System. We Can Give It Back to You As We Got It. The Data Transfer Decision Tree

5 Content Transfer: Start-up Basics November 2007 We Need Every Partner We Know Every Partner is Different We’ll Work With Everyone What We Need to Start: –Lead Contact from Partner –LC Data Wrangler(s) –Pathway to Action –Guidance and Examples

6 Transfer: The Basic Elements Content Metadata Packaging File Manifest Package Manifest Shipping Ingest Server Package Receipt Inventory Archival System

7 Content Transfer: What’s Happened So Far Moved Bits Developed a Specification for the Package Manifest (with CDL) Identified “Best Practices” -Network Transfer Tools -Sizes and Wrappers of Packages -Validation -Architecture on Receiving Side

8 Content Transfer: Building on Architectural Models From Presentation by Clay Shirky, July 25, 2002…..and From NDIIPP Architecture Model, version 0.2 (2006)

Interfaces Collections Gateways Repositories 4 Layers Between People and Bits Preliminary Architectural Proposal For Long-Term Digital Preservation Clay Shirky 7/25/2002 9

10 NDIIPP Architecture 0.2

11 Content Transfer: What’s Next Add New Partners Set up Transfer Schedules for Continuing Transfers Continue to Build “Best Practices” Content will Remain a Focus