Library of Congress Resources for Federal Records Managers

Federal Information and Records Managers Council11/4/2009William G. LeFurgy, wlef@loc.gov

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• National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program established in 2000

• Congress saw valuable digital content at risk• Library of Congress directed to lead a national

program and work with all stakeholders • Working with White House, NARA, GPO, NSF

and a number of other federal agencies • LC does not work directly with federal

records!

Background

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Three Parts of NDIIPP

• Build a community of practice to collaborate on solutions, share information

• Sponsor and develop tools, services, infrastructure to provide long-term access to significant digital information

• Work with partners to preserve and provide access to information

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Outcomes of Use to Federal Agencies

• Tools and services• Guidelines and best practices• News and information

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Tools and Services• Web archiving: capture of agency

web sites using third party services, Heritrix web crawler

• Data transfer: reliable movement of data from one environment to another using Bagit, associated tools

• Persistent bit preservation: distributed storage using LOCKSS

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Guidelines and Best Practices

• Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative: define uniform methods to digitize historical content (text, A/V)

• Sustainability of Digital Formats: identifies formats that are promising for long-term viability

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News and Information•Digitalpreservation.gov web site •Monthly Digital Preservation

Newsletter, free by e-mail subscription

•Focused conferences and webinars•Specialty meetings and briefings

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