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Project background: preserving legislative digital records
Minnesota Historical Society
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
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Issues & challenges• COOP, disaster recovery• Legal framework – records laws,
litigation, discovery• Increased public attention and
expectations• Complexity of systems – email, RMA,
web, web 2.0• Costs and capacity• Lack of a good model
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Assumptions
• Collaboration• Standards• National cyberinfrastructure• Rigorous appraisal and ROI: use value
of electronic records• Education• Cultural and institutional change• Sustainability
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Project partners
• MN (ROS, LRL, MHS)
• CA and KS
• CDL
• NCSL
• AR, IL, MS, ND, NE, TN, VT
• ThomsonReuters, private sector
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Partners: unique and appropriate
• Audiences
• Mission
• Priorities
• Initiatives
• Capacity
• Resources
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Process
• Lots and lots of meetings• Documentation: BaseCamp• Research• Re-grants• Implementation• Evaluation
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Lessons we’re learning
• Change: perpetual beta, budgets, personnel
• “Constant partial attention”• User expectations: preservation =
access over time; success = content + functionality
• Access: open content, loosely coupled, specialized needs
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Lessons we’re learning (2)
Collaboration and integration Lower costs, lower barriers Catalysts: business case, mandate,
charisma Local knowledge No single model: common problems,
but not the same solutions
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Practical outcome: incremental improvement
Storage Preservation
PoliciesStandardsPartnersTechnologiesModel
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Progress
• Research and white papers: access, records mgmt, digital audio/video, legislative history, XML usage, mashups, authentication etc.
• Education: handouts, podcasts, NCSL• Schema• NCCUSL model law
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MHS: next steps
• Integration of non-XML content• Import and export: web and CDL• CA and KS • Automating the process• Education• Gap analysis and toolkit• Evaluation
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Partners: next steps
• Education• Sharing content• Adapting models• Gap analysis• Evaluation
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Solution: ongoing process
• Standards
• Migration
• Conversion
• Innovation
• Collaboration
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More information
• Project website: www.mnhs.org/ndiipp
• Contact: Bob [email protected]
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Policy framework
• Document decision and transactions• Accountability, transparency, FOI• Privacy• Re-engineering government• Costs
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Project outcomes
• Capture, preserve and provide access to “at-risk” digital content from state legislatures
• Test the model in MN• Determine capacity of other states to adapt
the model• Promote the results through education and
outreach• Connect to national cyberinfrastructure
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Legal framework
"The current law is just completely unhelpful. The Legislature has to get to this. ... it'll be messy and quite ungratifying, but it has to be done.''
Minneapolis Star-Tribune 13 July 2008
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Sustainability: business case
• Appropriate solutions
• Integration into routines
• Priorities – appraisal, scope
• Cost control
• Use value (access, transparency, open gov’t)
• CollaborationMinnesota Historical Society
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Archivists’ role
• Add value, define niche
• Facilitate use and collaboration
• Context and significance
• Web 2.0
• Long term preservation
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Conceptual framework
• Access
• Data consultancies
• Guidelines and standards
• Policy and technology
• Outreach, education, promotion
• Larger context
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Common ground
• Trustworthy• Preserved• Accessible• Standards based
- NCCUSL: Authentication Model Law
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Legislature(creation)
Archive(mgmt/admin)
Repository(preservation)
Access
(Item)
(Batch)
Web(harvesting)
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