1. Library of Congress Resources for Federal Records Managers
Federal Information and Records Managers Council
11/4/2009
William G. LeFurgy,

2. Background
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program established in 2000
Congress saw valuable digital content at risk
Library of Congress directed to lead a national program and work with all stakeholders
Working with White House, NARA, GPO, NSF and a number of other federal agencies
LC does not work directly with federal records!

3. Three Parts of NDIIPP
Build a community of practice to collaborate on solutions, share information
Sponsor and develop tools, services, infrastructure to provide long-term access to significant digital information
Work with partners to preserve and provide access to information

4. Outcomes of Use to Federal Agencies
Tools and services
Guidelines and best practices
News and information

5. Tools and Services
Web archiving: capture of agency web sites using third party services, Heritrix web crawler
Data transfer: reliable movement of data from one environment to another using Bagit, associated tools
Persistent bit preservation: distributed storage using LOCKSS

6. Guidelines and Best Practices
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative: define uniform methods to digitize historical content (text, A/V)
Sustainability of Digital Formats: identifies formats that are promising for long-term viability

7. News and Information Digitalpreservation.gov web site
Monthly Digital Preservation Newsletter, free by subscription
Focused conferences and webinars
Specialty meetings and briefings

8. Digitalpreservation.gov