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December 16, 2015 NISO Webinar: Two-Part Webinar: Emerging Resource Types Part 2: Equipment that Supports the Present and the Future
- 1. The Challenges of Preserving Every Digital Format on the Face of the Planet Leslie Johnston 12/16/2015
- 2. Well, not every format The National Archives preserve the permanent records of the work of the federal government. We often have little control over what comes to the National Archives, and we manage and preserve a wide variety of formats.
- 3. What are examples of some of the collecting and preservation challenges?
- 4. Transfers arrive in whatever file format the agency can feasibly provide: ASCII EBCDIC Databases and Database Exports PDFs Office productivity software Images Video and Audio SharePoint Web Archives …
- 5. Transfers arrive on whatever media the agency stored the records on: CDs DVDs Hard drives with a variety of interfaces Thumb drives Floppy discs ZIP disks 9 track tapes LTO tapes
- 6. So how are we making this easier for NARA to manage?
- 7. What are NARA’s strategies for formats? • NARA provides Transfer Guidance for media for transfers • http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/transfer-records- to-nara.html • NARA provides guidance on acceptable formats • http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/bulletins/2014/2014-04.html • NARA is reviewing and revising policies on digital preservation of electronic records and surrogates of analog records.
- 8. Preservation Infrastructure •Lab with a variety of equipment to handle vintage media. •NARA has an Electronic Records Archive (ERA) for the ingest and management of electronic records. •Standard software to characterize file formats, but less than 50% are categorically recognized by DROID and JHOVE. •NARA inventories all incoming files, and is inventorying all digital content. • We maintain multiple copies of files on servers and on tape, in geographically distributed locations.
- 9. DISCUSSION? Leslie Johnston Director of Digital Preservation National Archives and Records Administration Leslie.Johnston@nara.gov
- 10. DISCUSSION? Leslie Johnston Director of Digital Preservation National Archives and Records Administration Leslie.Johnston@nara.gov