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Thank you! This will be helpful. From: Adi Alter <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: The NDSA infrastructure working group list <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:04 AM To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: [NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE] Draft Notes from Yesterday's call Agree with Porter's comment below. Regarding the topic "Future directions: Migration Project" - we at Ex Libris were part of Scape, an EU FP-7 project that was engaged with developing scalable services for planning and execution of institutional preservation strategies. One of the deliverables of this project was a comprehensive document "that provides guidelines to support the migration from legacy repository systems by describing the stages, activities and associated risks that comprise this type of endeavor". The full document can be found here: http://www.scape-project.eu/deliverable/d20-6-final-best-practice-guidelines-and-recommendations If the team will find this helpful I can ask one of the Ex Libris employees who has participated in writing this document to discuss its findings on one of the group future calls. Thanks, Adi Alter Digital Resources Product Manager Tel: +972-2-649-9320 Mobile: +972-54-220-6193 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [Description: Description: Description: C:\Documents and Settings\nirk\My Documents\My Pictures\ExLibris2.BMP] www.exlibrisgroup.com<blocked::http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/> From: The NDSA infrastructure working group list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Porter Wayne Olsen Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 16:58 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE] Draft Notes from Yesterday's call Thank you for writing this up, Trevor. This is very helpful for those of us who weren't able to make the call. Porter ________________________________ From: The NDSA infrastructure working group list [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] on behalf of Owens, Trevor [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:21 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: [NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE] Draft Notes from Yesterday's call Hi Infrastructure Team, I’ve posted draft notes from yesterday’s call on the wiki. So feel free to edit, tweak or revise them there. http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Tuesday,_May_27,_2014 For easy access, I have also pasted them in this email below. Best, Trevor Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Agenda 1.Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet 2.Update on open source digital preservation tools project 3.Update on NDSA Storage Survey report 4.Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project 5.Future directions: Migration Project Action Items -Further final review of the Fixity Check document before Trevor submits it to the Coordinating Committee to sign off on as a NDSA publication - Trevor -Work up short thematic blog post resulting from the themes in the OSS interviews -Contact Trevor ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) if you would like to be involved in the new Migration "Packing List" project idea. Discussion Update on Fixity Check Fact Sheet In discussion of the Fixity Check fact sheet, Emily and Carol both noted that the draft had already been useful in educating/informing their colleagues, so that's a success. Otherwise, there wasn't much of any further issues raised. The only substantive revision to the document since the public draft is some refinement of issues relating to how file systems like ZFS incorporate checking at fixed intervals. If there are any further tweaks or issues related to the document send them on to Trevor. Update on open source digital preservation tools project There wasn't really considerable interest in doing too much work here. So the work done already can be easily turned into a short blog post that brings together some of the thematic points in the interviews and draws further attention to them. Update on NDSA Storage Survey report There is a little bit of final follow up to check some issues with the response rate but the group will begin interpreting the data in the next few weeks with the intention of producing a report on it thereafter. Several have already volunteered to draft the report, but anyone else interested should email Trevor to be added to the group. Future directions: Migration Project Karen asked the group what they would like to tackle as a next project and suggested the idea of a kind of check list, or packing list if you will, for migration. Switching from one system to another system. Or best practices. (Hardware, software, storage systems from soup to nuts.) Kevin brought up examples of issues in the work of the National Archives migrating presidential records from one stack of technologies to another and another case, moving images from census to another.Kinda like a "packing list," things to do before and after to make sure you have a successful move. How to make sure you aren’t losing any data and metadata. Issues in access from one system to another. Importantly, this would not focus on normalization, that would be out of scope, but just focusing on moving fixed digital materials and metadata forward. Trevor will check with the standards group for further participation. Cal noted that there is a "ISO 13008:2012 – Information and documentation – Digital records conversion and migration process (PDF)" which might be useful for consulting. All together a group was formed, with Trevor, Karen, Kevin and Leah to work up an initial take on what something like this might look like to share back with the group on a future call. Next call, presentation from Olive Archive Emulation/virtualization project Title: The Olive Executable Archive Date: June 24th, 2:00 EST Join the NDSA Infrastructure working group for a presentation and discussion of the Olive Archive project from Dan Ryan the project's curator of executable content. Briefly, from their website: "Olive is a collaborative project seeking to establish a robust ecosystem for long-term preservation of software, games, and other executable content. Born at Carnegie Mellon University, Olive addresses the current gap in preservation technology by providing a curated environment for the preservation and distribution of executable content." https://olivearchive.org/ Dan will give an overview of the project, the technologies it uses, and lead a discussion of it's next steps.