Thanks Amy. I think this is a good idea. Might also be a good time to remind folks about the paper NDSA Standards & Practices and Infrastructure working groups put out a few years back now: What is Fixity, and When Should I be Checking It? http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/documents/NDSA-Fixity-Guidance-Report-final100214.pdf (although this likely has a new DLF url now!)

Best wishes – Kate

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Kate Murray

Technology Policy Directorate

Library of Congress

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Hi all ~

A couple of us who regularly attend the NDSA standards meetings happened to participate in the NDSA infrastructure call last week.

One of the topics was about fixity and the fact that in the preservation world, we don’t seem to have produced any hard and fast recommendations on how frequently to check fixity and how to make it possible to do it at any frequency when archives get into the hundreds of TB.

Would the two working groups be interested in a joint call, perhaps, to discuss the topic?  Maybe just to review what we are doing and think about ways to move the conversation forward, should we decide we need to do so?

Just throwing this out into the wild here, to see what response we get. J

~ Amy

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