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NDIIPP: Key Challenges of
Collaboration and Sustainability
Laura E. CampbellAssociate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives
July 6, 2006
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Background• Created by federal legislation (PL 106-554) in
December 2000
• Up to $175 million available with matching
• Guided by National Digital Strategy Advisory Board (NDSAB)
• Preserving Our Digital Heritage national NDIIPP plan approved December 2002
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NDIIPP Vision
To ensure access over time to a rich body of digital content through the establishment of a national network of committed partners.
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Overall NDIIPP Goals• Identify and preserve at-risk digital content
• Develop a national digital collection and preservation strategy
• Support development of improved tools, models, and methods for digital preservation
• Work with industry, concerned federal agencies, libraries, research institutions and not-for-profit entities
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Key Challenges:U.S. Context for Digital Preservation• Decentralized activities in many communities
– Government at various levels– Universities– Non-profits– Corporations– Consortial domains (i.e., Earth scientists and
climate data, Biologists and genomic data, etc.)
• Assorted mandates, objectives, approaches
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Answering the Challenges
• LC/NDIIPP to help bring a national focus, encourage collaboration among communities
• LC is providing resources and leadership– Working with other institutions to develop common understanding
• Established ‘Affinity Groups’ based on cross-cutting issues– Selection and Collection
– Rights and Restrictions
– Technical Architecture
– Economic Sustainability
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A Network of PeopleAn Architecture for Preservation
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Working with Other Federal Agencies
• LC/NDIIPP works with the following agencies– National Archives and Records Administration
(responsible for federal records)– National Science Foundation– Government Printing Office– National Library of Medicine– Institute of Museum and Library Services– National Agricultural Library– Department of Commerce/National Institute of Science
and Technology– Office of Science and Technology Policy
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International Context• LC/NDIIPP engaged internationally:
– Founding member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium
– Allied with the Digital Preservation Coalition– Chief Executive of the British Library on
NDIIPP advisory board– Consulted with many national libraries
concerning digital preservation efforts
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NDIIPP is a Portfolio of Activities
• Four areas of focus– Network of preservation partners– Architectural framework for preservation– Digital preservation research– Intellectual Property
• Two phases of investment – Phase I commenced 2004– Phase II commenced 2006
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A National Content Stewardship Network • 8 Consortial Agreements with 36 Participants• 10 Digital Preservation Grants • 4 AIHT Participants• 2 Technical Archiving and Testing Participants
– Diego Supercomputer Center – Los Alamos National Lab Research Library
• 2 Developers of Preservation Business Models– Portico– LOCKSS/CLOCKSS
• 2 International Partnerships– Representing 12 other national libraries
• 19 Experts on the Section 108 Working Group
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A National Content Stewardship Network • NDIIPP’s Network is comprised of 28 agreements and 67
institutions involved in the beginning stages of building a digital preservation strategy under the NDIIPP program as well as a major initiative to address needed changes to copyright law.
• Reflects distributed approach necessary for preserving the volume and complexity of digital content
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Preserving At-Risk Content• Content Experts providing insight into specific
domain requirements
• Variety of content scope, e.g.– Public television (high-definition digital TV)– Materials relating to southern culture– Government and political web sites– Social science data– Geospatial data– Dot-com era business records
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Preservation Research Grants• Joint LC/NSF program funding cutting-edge research • 10 grants across different areas, e.g.
– Large-scale data repositories for oceanographic study data and MODIS satellite images– Video– Engineering and design data– Infrastructure and lifecycle issues, including data provenance and versioning– Incentives for data producers to create archive-ready datasets
– http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/research.html
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• Archive Ingest and Handling Test
– Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins & ODU conducted ingest, export, format migration and exchange on a common archive
• Tools and protocols– Los Alamos National Lab Research Library developing tools
and standards to package, disseminate and store e-journal content
• Repository and storage– San Diego Supercomputer Center building and testing utility
and trust in a third-party repository– National Digital Newspaper Program building distributed
content production and validation network and a central repository to preserve digital newspaper content over time
– eDeposit through Copyright acquiring and preserving eJournal content from multiple sources in different formats
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Preservation Architecture
• Principles: – Support institutional relationships– Separate preservation and access– Construct modularly– Assemble over time, not all at once– Upgrade parts without disruption of the whole– Use broadly adoptable standards and protocols
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Section 108 Study Group• Working group sponsored by NDIIPP with Copyright Office
– 19 copyright experts – half from libraries, archives; half from various content industries
• Mission: – re-examine copyright exceptions applicable to libraries and
archives in light of digital technologies– findings and recommendations on revising law – ensure appropriate balance among copyright interests and
needs of libraries and archives in manner that best serves the national interest
• Submit report to Librarian of Congress by late 2006
• Roundtables on preservation and eligibility held March 2006; written comments due April 17, 2006
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Partnership Outcomes• Identify and preserve significant at-risk content• Leverage resources and experience through
collaboration• Learn how to build and sustain a national digital
stewardship network• Construct a technical infrastructure to support
interoperability and preservation services• Explore public policy issues• Provide basis for 2010 report to Congress
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• Expanding partnerships to commercial content and technology companies– Preserving Creative America
• Encouraging development of repositories for state and local “at-risk” content
• Additional funding of NSF/LC Grants
• Additional business models
• Technical infrastructure projects to expand and sustain a preservation network
Phase Two Investments
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Preserving Creative America• Engage the commercial sector• Goals
– Preserve at-risk digital cultural heritage collections• Recorded sound; moving image; interactive/electronic
games; still images– Encourage agreement on preservation standards & best
practices– Support demonstration projects with new tools & services
– Establish Public-Private partnership models
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• LC exploring how best to include the States within the scope of NDIIPP
• Focusing on significant and at-risk state government digital information, broadly defined
• Special attention on multi-state repositories• Received 9 responses June 15, 2006• Funds awarded in September 2006
NDIIPP and the States
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• Establish a network of shareable storage– Support preservation strategies such as content
exchange, syndicated storage and risk assessment
• Develop services to support preservation functions such as– Data replication– Risk assessment– Data integrity assurance – Content validation– Content exchange
• 25 Proposals received June 1, 2006
Technical Infrastructure Projects
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Digital Universe
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