Fwd: [CODE4LIB] A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation

[Nitin Borwankar]

Hi Jim, Jack,

Here's some email from a conversation at Couchio - I think this dovetails well with  bibjson BKN and bibcurator,

Do you want to reach out to Benjamin ?

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From: Benjamin Young <byo...@bigbluehat.com>
Date: March 1, 2010 9:53:16 AM PST
To: Jan Lehnardt <j...@couch.io>, Nitin Borwankar <ni...@couch.io>
Subject: Fwd: [CODE4LIB] A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation

Hey Jan and Nittin,

This was just posted to the code4lib list. The "best" part:

"Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation"

Obviously, replication is a growing field/concern/option to the library community. It'll mostly be a matter of figuring out where CouchDB can fit *now* and then working with librarian techs to find place it would make sense in the future.

I'll be continuing my promotion of CouchDB as an option for them. Subject Guides and potentially Bibliographic record sharing (ala MARC records) are likely a good place to start.

To that end, I pushed for a MARC.json format (currently, there are binary and XML formats) to potentially facilitate that. However, I don't yet know how such sharing is initiated, where those MARC records generally live, and how/when replication needs to happen.

Personally, I love to the idea as CouchDB as a research "dump" location with the option to merge/share research via Couch's by researchers, libraries, etc.

At any rate, I'm happy to discuss this whenever and in however much depth. :) Just let me know.

Later,
Benjamin

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Subject:	[CODE4LIB] A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:00:29 -0500
From:	Bill Anderson <bill.a...@LIBRARY.GATECH.EDU>
Reply-To:	Code for Libraries <CODE...@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
To:	CODE...@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Apologies for cross-posting

Announcement: publication of A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation

http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP

Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes from the Educopia Institute describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit.

This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways.

This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network.

Readers may access A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation as a freely downloadable pdf and/or as a print publication for purchase. Please visit http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP to download or order the book.

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The MetaArchive Cooperative provides low-cost, high-impact preservation services to help ensure the long-term accessibility of the digital assets of universities, libraries, museums, and other cultural memory organizations. In addition to preserving members’ digital content in a distributed digital preservation network, the Cooperative also offers consulting and education services to institutions that seek training in digital preservation planning, policy creation, and implementation, including setting up and running Private LOCKSS Networks (http://www.lockss.org).

For more information, please contact Program Manager Katherine Skinner (katherin...@metaarchive.org).

[Dr. Micah Altman]

Just FYI -- We've had regular conversation with Educopia (formerly Meta-Archive), as they were part of a small group of large NDIIPP first-round funded projects. We also have a separately funded IMLS project in this space (to do policy-based, auditable, limited-trust replication) When reading this document, keep in mind that it presupposes a LOCKSS PLN framework (which itself implies a particular trust-model) and also particular loadings on the term "replication".

In particular, the primary object of replication in this framework is the replication of the data objects, which is addressed by the LOCKSS platform. WRT to bibdata, they've developed a union catalog approach (I think) which integrates with the LOCKSS platform. To dovetail with them, I think you'd want to be able to propose how couch etc would integrate with LOCKSS.

best,

Micah

[Nitin Borwankar]

Hi Micah,

This is good to know - I will look up these technologies for my own edification.  However my email forward was to suggest that the person in question Benjamin Young might be a good person to pull into the bibjson effort as
a) he is looking for a JSON based bib format
b) he is quite knowledgeable w.r.t. CocuhDB
c) he seems to be interested in applying a) b) above to the library space

Nitin

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