[SPG_Active_Members] NIST workshop on digital data preservation

[Randall Neff]

NIST Workshop Takes First Steps Toward Standards for Preserving Digital Data
Government Computer News (04/02/10) Jackson, William

A recent U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
workshop discussed the requirements for creating an international
digital data preservation standard. "Everybody is doing their own
thing to preserve data, but they are not doing it in a common way,"
says NIST computer scientist Wo Chang. "This is a huge problem." Chang
says an approved standard is still at least two years away and then it
will only address a preliminary set of needs. Any new standard will
have to work within existing technology and infrastructure because
there is so much data already in existence. Chang envisions adding new
metadata about the formatting and metadata contained within the data
envelope, which would enable users to identify the data and determine
what is usable. "One thing that could help adapt data to a common
standard for preservation would be to adopt a common workflow for
capturing metadata in a systematic way," Chang says.

http://gcn.com/articles/2010/04/02/digital-preservation-040210.aspx

announcement:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/workshop_031610.cfm

Randall.