1. Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute Emily Gore, Clemson University U.S. Workshop on Roadmap for Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework NIST, Gaithersburg, MD March 29, 2010 Chronicles in Distributed Digital Preservation

2.  A distributed digital preservation cooperative for digital archives  Founded in 2004; supported by combination of sponsored funding (NDIIPP, NHPRC), consulting fees, and membership fees  Provides digital preservation infrastructure and training and models to enable other groups to establish similar networks Skinner & Gore, 2010

3.  Cultural memory organizations must maintain their historical role as cultural stewards  Preservation of digital assets as corollary to preserving physical ones  Need in house expertise and knowledge  Value of curators and librarians and archivists Skinner & Gore, 2010

4.  Capitalize on cultural memory organization’s proven preservation methodologies  Replication of content  Distribution of content  Partnership to keep costing affordable Skinner & Gore, 2010

5. Current Members Auburn University Boston College Clemson University Florida State University Folger Shakespeare Library Georgia Tech Library of Congress Penn State University PUC Rio de Janeiro Rice University University of Hull University of Louisville University of North Texas University of South Carolina Virginia Tech Current Affiliates Library of Congress NDLTD SDSC Chronopolis

6.  reducing our short- and long-term costs  Investing in a commonly-owned solution, not purchasing a service  Sharing technological development and organizational tasks  decentralizing our activities  Safety in this “brave new world” of digital preservation may well reside in shared knowledge and shared commitment  decreasing dependence on third-party solutions  There is room for various types of solutions  Increased capacity for acting as a community of cultural stewards Skinner & Gore, 2010

7.  501(c)(3) host, Board of Directors  Steering Committee  Comprised of Sustaining Members  Working Committees  Content  Preservation  Technical Skinner & Gore, 2010

8.  Archives based on subjects and genres  Proposals considered by Content Committee and approved by the Steering Committee  Current archives include:  Southern Digital Culture Archive  ETD Archive (with NDLTD)  Early and Modern Literature Archive  Newspaper Archive  General Archive Skinner & Gore, 2010

9.  Some genres of content may need specific types of attention in the preservation process  E.g., ETDs, E-Records, Datasets, Newspapers Skinner & Gore, 2010

10.  Why Newspapers?  NDNP placing focus on newspaper digitization and establishing best practices  Prior to and outside of NDNP, universities digitize newspapers to varying standards, many of which include article-level encoding or even TEI  Today’s newspapers are born-digital and in some have moved to digital-only – NDNP focuses primarily on historic newspaper digitization Skinner & Gore, 2010

11.  Member-driven archival designation  Current members with newspaper collections  Penn State University*  Clemson University  Virginia Tech  Georgia Tech  Boston College  University of North Texas* *NDNP participants Skinner & Gore, 2010

12.  Not “ideal” collections—”real” collections!  Both born-digital and digitized content  Digitized are encoded using varying encoding levels, corrected and uncorrected OCR and different display systems  Born-digital, range of formats and metadata  All stored in myriad ways/systems Skinner & Gore, 2010

13.  text Skinner & Gore, 2010 Penn State – showing article level encoding & segmentation

14.  Study needs of digital newspaper collection curators & status of current collections  Create preservation tools & best practices based on findings that can be widely used  Implement these tools & best practices in our Digital Newspaper Archive and provide documentation for others seeking to preserve digital newspapers Skinner & Gore, 2010

15.  Survey, 2009  Seek advice on appraisal, selection, and prioritization of material  Need assistance in moving content safely from their repository systems (including vendor-based) into a preservation environment  Survey, 2010  appraisal and prioritization issues, existing or planned practices, intellectual property issues Skinner & Gore, 2010

16.  Develop data model and best practices for specific issues of concern in collaborative newspaper preservation efforts  appraisal and prioritization of content  metadata  data structures  intellectual property considerations  inter-organizational agreements related to distributed preservation networks Skinner & Gore, 2010

17.  Standards & Specifications  METS (Library of Congress) and BagIt (CDL and Library of Congress)  Tools  enable content exchanges between leading newspaper repository systems (including Olive, CONTENTdm, DigiTool, and DSpace) and LOCKSS  Recovery pathways Skinner & Gore, 2010

18. Katherine Skinner 404-783-2534 katherine.skinner@metaarchive.org Emily Gore 864-656-3622 egore@clemson.edu Skinner & Gore, 2010