Revision as of 08:52, 18 February 2013

Working Group Charge

To develop a state-of-the-art preservation plan for Dryad, with an emphasis on recommendations that are immediately useful and feasible to implement.

Working Group Members

Co-chairs

• Jane Greenberg, professor, SILS/UNC-CH, director, MRC
• Elena Feinstein, Dryad curator, SILS/UNC-CH & MRC

Members

• Alex Ball, Research Officer, UKOLN, University of Bath
• Robin Dale, Director of Digital and Preservation Services, LYRASIS
• Michael Day, Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN, University of Bath
• Ruth Duerr, Principal Investigator/Project Manager, Data Management and Cyberinfrastructure Manager, Data Stewardship, National Snow & Ice Data Center
• Cal Lee, Associate Professor, SILS/UNC-CH
• Robin Rice, Data Librarian, EDINA and Data Library, University of Edinburgh
• Ayoung Yoon, SILS doctoral student

Working Group Meetings

Kickoff meeting, 26 Feb 2013, 11:00am EST/16:00GMT

• Connection information sent via email

Agenda

1. Introductions (brief)
2. Overview of working group goals
   • Creation of Dryad policy statement on preservation (strategic, long term)
   • Plan for implementation (priorities, immediate actions and long term goals)
3. Quick, preservation-related facts about Dryad
   • size of collection: more than 7000 files and growing every day, see Dryad homepage for current stats
   • daily ingest of new content
   • heterogeneous files types, some non-preferred for preservation (e.g., proprietary formats), see this text file for a snapshot of formats in Dryad on Feb 5 2013
   • currently no real preservation activities (beyond basics like checksums, server backup, etc.)
   • in process of joining CLOCKSS
4. Questions from the group
5. Action item for group members
   • Send us one to three examples of model preservation policy documents from other organizations, that are relevant to Dryad
   • Send us one to three other resources, such as templates, best practices documents, or preferred format documentation