Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives & Information Technology
University of California, Los Angeles

A major feature of transformed space in the renovation of the Research Library will be a Research Commons for digital scholarship. Partnering with the Center for Digital Humanities, the Library will be installing a laboratory for digital cultural heritage with high-end technology to accommodate interactive and creative use of technology and digital collections of the Library. This presentation will include discussion of the philosophy behind the partnership, and plans for the space in relation to the whole research library. Specific projects to be undertaken will encompass active digital research projects that are underway in conjunction with campus faculty and faculty from other institutions. The commons and laboratory will allow for broad interaction with students and the creation of new scholarship which can be stored by the digital library and shared more broadly through the media distribution system that is planned for the building.

Martha Anderson
Director, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Management
Library of Congress

Laura Campbell
Associate Librarian, Office of Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is launching a collaborative national alliance to support long-term access to digital content. Building upon the experiences of 10 years of NDIIPP partner projects, the new initiative will leverage the best practices and relationships for expanding the stewardship of digital collections to a wider community. The update will include an overview of current technical initiatives and community efforts.

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov

About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

During the November 2010 session of CNI Conversations, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch previews the plenary sessions and some of the project briefings to be presented at the upcoming CNI Fall Membership Meeting, he discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, and LC’s recent invitational NDIIPP meeting on citizen journalism.  Joan Lippincott reports on the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory, and questions include a recent New York Times piece on digital humanities and the recent Internet2 meeting.

Kara van Malssen
Research Specialist
New York University

Joe Pawletko
Software Systems Architect
New York University

Preserving Digital Public Television (PDPTV) is a collaboration between Thirteen/WNET, WGBH, PBS, and New York University. Part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress, the project has led the effort to preserve the nation’s born-digital public television heritage since 2005. The goals of the PDPTV project have been to:

• Design and develop a preservation repository for born-digital public television content

• Research and develop a set of standards for metadata, file and encoding formats, and production workflow practices

• Recommend selection criteria for long-term retention

• Investigate intellectual property issues that affect preservation and access of public media • Examine issues of long-term content accessibility and recommend methods for sustaining digital preservation of public television materials

This presentation will report on some of the key findings and outcomes in the above areas. Presenters will discuss the design of the prototype repository and how the specific needs of this project have intersected with NYU’s existing preservation repository infrastructure and processes. They will describe how metadata standards, including PBCore, METS, and PREMIS, have been used together to create an Archival Information Package for public broadcasting—the first of its kind. They will discuss the results of research into copyright issues and how these can best be managed. Finally, they will address the need for changes in production and distribution workflows in order to for the public broadcasting system to support sustainable preservation of it valuable content.

http://www.thirteen.org/ptvdigitalarchive/

Handout (PDF)

During this discussion, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch reported on Internet2 and the NDIIPP storage systems symposium.  Cliff also responded to participants’ questions about the Bamboo Project, the trend for university libraries and university presses to work together, and the open access movement.