What is NDIIPP doing?

July 7 th, Web-At-Risk is opening its archives for public access, having captured nearly 6 TB of data—the entire CA State Government Web, the CA Recall Election, Hurricane Katrina and more.

The MetaArchive project is now the MetaArchive Cooperative, a sustainable independent digital preservation alliance of cultural memory organizations.

Venit, Vidit, Reservavit!

Chronopolis is replicating data from 4 NDIIPP partners at 3 geographically diverse sites, incorporating monitoring tools for data providers and implementing long-term planning for data preservation.

VidArch is capturing YouTube- based videos preserving their context through the ContextMiner tool.

LOCKSS and Library of Congress staff are working together on the audit processes, Federal Information Processing Standard Certification and Accreditation for categorizing security risks of federal information and systems (FIPS 199).

The operating agreement finalizing the creation of the Brobeck Closed Archive has been signed. Initial data are due at the Birth of the Dot.Com Era project at University of Maryland any day.

The JHOVE2 team has compiled a set functional requirements that have been reviewed by the community and completed a number of design iterations to codify the core architecture; an initial code release for community review is forthcoming.

SCOLA is expanding the collecting activities of foreign news broadcasts, continuing to improve online user interface, and discussing how to provide the Library with higher resolution versions.

WNET/Thirteen in New York, leaders of the Preserving Public Television Project, is engaged in the new all- digital, file-based program World Focus produced at Thirteen.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive continues to plan their symposium and workshop on preserving digital-format independent film.

BMS/Chace recently featured a review of the list of proposed data elements by members of the 13 audio Producers and Engineers chapters of the Recording Academy.

The Motion Picture Academy partners staged an all-day symposium on moving image metadata in Los Angeles and have been analyzing their holdings of high resolution digital footage in terms of preservation and repository work.

What is NDIIPP doing?

ASMP--a trade association promoting the adoption and use of XMP embedded metadata by professional photographers—is researching ways application software handles metadata and will soon present findings on best practices and workflows to its members.

ARTstor -- building a library of images of fine art and architecture—is focusing on the documentation, validation, and extraction of embedded XMP metadata provided by their photographers.

SAA--a trade association for professional photographers--has completed a photo metadata usage survey of its members and has launched an outreach campaign to educate members through the Web site photometadata.org.

SAA is seeking greater adoption of embedded XMP metadata and is hosting an outreach meeting in the Washington area this Thursday evening.

Universal Press Syndicate transferred the Doonesbury cartoon archive to LC using BagIt specification and is preparing to transmit the Pat Oliphant archive soon.

ODU/LANL completed CRATE mod_oai --a self-contained, fully automated, preservation- ready version of the web resource, created at time of capture.

The ECHO DEP projects are exploring repository interoperability frameworks, automated extraction of metadata, preservation risks of digital file formats, and archiving of semantic content through generations of encoding.

Preserving Virtual Worlds Project is investigating how communities of game developers and players can work with cultural repositories to increase access to user-generated content and handle scaling issues for archives of born-digital game and virtual world content.

The Data-PASS partners are working with a prototype syndicated storage platform for redundant backup of digital holdings, as well as archiving over 700 social science data collections in the Data-PASS shared catalog.

The Multi-State Preservation Consortium is adding the Nevada State Archive, Nevada State Library, and the North Carolina State Library as new partners and continues to ingest new content from all the partners.

PeDALS has performed an initial content ingest and is working on updating the automated business rules for future content ingests.

NGDA continues to refine its work on ingest, storage, access and the geospatial format registry and is also exploring adding new members to the NGDA federation.

The Minnesota Preserving State Government Information project has developed a core legislative XML schema to facilitate the programmable Web.

The NDIIPP Program Management team is working on the 2010 Report, Digital Preservation Training and Outreach, and an Access Demonstration Project.