National Digital Strategy Advisory Board
Following are individual presentations provided during the June 28th, 2004, meeting of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board in Washington, D.C.
Eleanor Frierson, Deputy Director at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), presented information about the NAL Digital Publication Preservation Program, which has been underway for the last 10 years. Also discussed were plans to establish a National Digital Library for Agriculture (NDLA) with a focus on partnerships and distributed collections to preserve text, images, moving images, and databases.
Digital at NAL (PDF,251 Kb)
Betsy Humphreys, Associate Director for Library Operations and Assistant Director for Health Services Research Information at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), outlined NLM's general approach to digital preservation, and described recent NLM projects that support agency's access and preservation mission. These projects include development of an electronic document template for creating or preserving electronic journal articles and tagging agency web content with permanence ratings.
National Library of Medicine Digital Preservation Update (PDF, 705 Kb)
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, delivered a progress report on NDIIPP. The presentation included review of initial project planning; status of the three main NDIIPP investment areas: 1) content partnerships, 2) preservation network architecture, 3) advance preservation research; and near-term plans for expanding NDIIPP, including establishing partnerships with the States.
National Preservation Strategy (PDF, 891 Kb)
Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, spoke about the important issues relating to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. She told NDSAB members that NDIIPP began as a preservation program but that copyright law also made it an acquisitions program.
NDIIPP: Issues Related to Copyright (PDF, 11 Kb)
Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, gave an overview of IMLS programs supporting management and preservation of digital information. These programs include the annual Web Wise Conference and development of the published Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. She also discussed several State-wide digital implementation projects.
IMLS: Digitization & Digital Preservation Programs (PDF, 815 Kb)
Clay Shirky, a Library of Congress consultant, presented information about the revised NDIIPP technical architecture, which is a conceptual framework for defining the functions and tools required for a national digital preservation network. He also provided a briefing on the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT), which involves documenting and measuring work involved to ingest a test set of digital content into four different preservation repositories.
NDIIPP: Technical/Preservation Architecture Partners (PDF, 1.12 Mb)
Larry Brandt, who manages the Digital Government Research Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF), told of a memorandum of understanding between the Library of Congress and NSF to establish the first research grants program to specifically address digital preservation. NSF will administer the program, which will fund cutting-edge research to support the long-term management of digital information.
NSF Digital Government Research Program (PDF, 43 Kb)
Ken Thibodeau, ERA Program Office Director at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), described plans for the Electronic Records Archives (ERA). Details were provided about NARA's plans to award contracts for two "competing designs" for the system, as well as about plans to reach operating capacity in FY 2007 and full capacity FY in 2011. The presentation detailed a number of unique requirements that NARA perceives for ERA.
NARA's Electronic Records Archives Program (PDF, 1.08 Mb)