[SCC_Active_Members] Software Archive Problem Statements?

[H.M. Gladney]

Several participants in the latest 72-hour flurry of messages have alluded
to prior work on the topics of discussion--topics which have not in this
exchange been clearly identified, but which almost surely include overlaps
with topics alluded to as "digital archiving", "(digital) content
management", "(long-term) digital preservation", "digital library",
"software version management", and so on.  For those who are inclined to
refresh or upgrade their knowledge of the rich literature of these and
related topics, the following starting points might be helpful.

(1) The book I described on 29th March has roughly 500 citations.  About 200
of these are Web-accessible (see
http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/PDIlinks.htm.)  This citation list includes
many of the works alluded to in recent SPG e-mails.

Four other new books on archiving and related topics are briefly described
in DDQ 6(1).  See  http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_1.htm#NewBooks.

(2) A thorough proposal of requirements that should be addressed to persuade
visitors that a digital archive is trustworthy (i.e., that its holdings are
authentic) was published in 2006 by RLG (the Research Libraries Group).
Called the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification Checklist
(TRAC), it is accessible via
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58&l3=162&l4=91.

(3) As mentioned in my note of 25th March to this dist'n. list, the special
needs of museums (i.e., requirements that need more emphasis than for
libraries and archives) will be focused on in a conference whose timing and
location could not be better vis-a-vis CHM: (**)
    Museums and the Web 2007
	 April 11 - 14, 2007
	 San Francisco, California, USA
	 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/

** MW2007 Papers: Now On-line **
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/speakers/index.html

(4) There exist carefully prepared requirements analyses generated in early
phases of content management systems development.  Although I do not have
these at my fingertips, I think I could find them relatively easily, if they
were of sufficient interest to SPG or CHM.

(5) There is a Digital Preservation Website at
http://digitalpreservation.wikispaces.com/ .

(6) The program of this year's IS&T Archiving Conference is available at
www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007.  The programs from prior years
are surely also available on line.  When such programs do not happen to link
to an online version of an included paper, they usually make it easy to find
a copy.

(7) There exist an International Journal of Digital Curation:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/IJDC/.  There are also pertinent articles in recent
issues of The American Archivist; the last 10 years Tables of Contents are
accessible at http://www.archivists.org/periodicals/aa-toc.asp.

(8) On 8 April, Larry Masinter suggested that CHM consider storing its stuff
in somebody else's repository.  It seems that the Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) is moving towards providing such a service beyond its
normal limits to U.S. government documents.  See
http://www.archives.gov/era/.  I hear that SAA is providing a 5-day summer
camp  in instruction archivists and librarians on how to use the NARA ERA
system.  However, since the NARA Electronic Records Archive (ERA) will not
start to provide service before 2008 (I don't know the precise plan date)
and will not be fully deployed before 2011, considering this carefully
cannot start for about a year from now.  
Two papers describing the NARA ERA project appear in the 2006 American
Archivists Annual Conference.  Links to the presentation slides are
available at http://www.archives.gov/era/presentations/.  See also
http://www.archives.gov/era/papers/thic-04.html?template=print.

On the topic of U.S. Government projects in digital preservation, there is
the $100M NDIIPP (National Digital Information and Infrastructure
Preservation Program) managed by the Library of Congress.  See
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/.


Cheerio, Henry

(**) I will not be attending this conference myself, but expect to lunch
with the principals (David Bearman and Jennifer Trant) on 17th April.

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