Purpose
To explore options and plans for sustainability in the context of Preserving Digital Public Television, and more broadly, to find ways to ensure long term access to archives of public broadcasting materials. Producing a working paper on these issues is part of our NDIIPP contract , and the goal is to complete a draft by the fall partners meeting.
Roster
Bea Morse bmorse @ pbs.org
Howard Besser howard @ nyu.edu
Irene Taylor ietaylor @ pbs.org
Jeff Ubois jeff @ archival.tv
Kara van Malssen kvm211 @ nyu.edu
Nan Rubin RubinN @ thirteen.org
Winter Shanck Shanck @ thirteen.org
Kathleen Maguire kem361 @ nyu.edu
Yvonne Ng yvonne.ng @ nyu.edu
Resources
Baker, Mary et al., “A Fresh Look at the Reliability of Long-term Digital Storage” Proceedings of the 2006 EuroSys Conference. http://lockss.org/locksswiki/files/Eurosys2006.pdf
Lavoie, Brian (2008). “The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation.” D-Lib, Volume 14 Number 3/4.
National Archives and Records Administration. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Selecting Sustainable Formats for Electronic Records.
Palm, Jonas. The Digital Black Hole.
Smith, Abby (2003). Issues in sustainability: Creating value for online users. First Monday, volume 8, number 5 (May 2003).
Society of American Archivists (2007). Constructing Sustainability: Real-World Implementations of Preservation Standards for Born-Digital Design Documentation. See also the Spellbound Blog for detailed notes on this session.
Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access named; see
http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/default.htm
The Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “The Digital Dilema: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Accessing Digital Motion Picture Materials.” Academy, 2007.