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NDIIPP Initiatives

NDIIPP has invested in a variety of initiatives to form a collaborative network of preservation partners.

Digital Preservation Partnerships

  • Birth of the Dot Com Era
  • Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS)
  • ECHO DEPository: Exploring Collaborations to Harness Objects with a Digital Environment for Preservation
  • MetaArchive
  • National Geospatial Digital Archive
  • North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project
  • Preserving Digital Public Television
  • Web-at-Risk

Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (DIGARCH)

  • Digital Engineering Archives
  • Digital Preservation Lifecycle Management: Building a Demonstration Prototype for the Preservation of Large Scale Multimedia Collections
  • Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets
  • Investigating Data Provenance in the Context of New Product Design and Development
  • Multi-Institution Testbed for Scalable Digital Archiving
  • Planning a Globally Accessible Archive of MODIS Data
  • Robust Technologies for Automated Ingestion and Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information
  • Preserving Video Objects and Context: A Demonstration Project
  • Securely Managing the Lifetime of Versions in Digital Archives
  • Shared Infrastructure Preservation Models

Technical Architecture

  • Archive Ingest and Handling Test
  • Chronopolis
  • Distributed Storage and Preservation Services
  • Electronic Journal Metadata & Transfer Project
  • JHOVE2: A Next Generation Architecture for Format Aware Digital Preservation Processing
  • Tools for a Preservation-Ready Web
  • Vidarch: Preserving Digital Video Tools and Services

Digital Preservation Policy

  • Section 108 Study Group and Report (PDF, 2.8 Mb)
  • International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (PDF, 1.6 Mb)

Preserving Creative America

  • Digital Motion Picture Archive Framework Project
  • Education for Preserving Digital Independent Film
  • Metadata for Digital Sound Recording
  • Preserving Digital Cartoons
  • Preserving Digital Still Images
  • Preserving Virtual Worlds
  • Standardized Metadata for Stock Photography Photography
  • Metadata Standards and Tools for Digital Photography

Preserving State Government Information

  • A Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Government Digital Information Project
  • GeoMAPP
  • Multi-State Preservation Consortium
  • Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) Project

Strategic Partnerships

  • Internet Archive
  • LOCKSS/CLOCKSS
  • Portico
  • SCOLA

Organizational Alliances

  • Council on Library and Information Resources
  • Digital Library Federation
  • Digital Preservation Coalition
  • International Internet Preservation Consortium
  • NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access

Standards Alliances

  • Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
  • PDF/A Working Group
  • Office Open XML Working Group Overview (PDF, 251 Kb)

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