 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mission
|
|
|
| • |
Develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve
|
|
|
the burgeoning amounts of digital content, especially
|
|
|
|
materials that are created only in digital formats, for current
|
|
|
and future generations.
|
|
|
Topics
|
|
|
| • |
Architectures for persistent digital repositories (technology
|
|
|
infrastructure, component layers of service, etc.);
|
|
|
| • |
Preservation technologies and tools (Web harvesting methods,
|
|
|
|
techniques for normalizing heterogeneous objects, algorithms for
|
|
|
proving authenticity, audit mechanisms, interoperability, and large
|
|
|
scale back-up and recovery mechanisms);
|
|
|
| • |
Attributes of archived collections (methods for determining and
|
|
|
validating completeness and closure of preserved digital objects);
|
|
|
| • |
Policy and economic models (roles and responsibilities, access
|
|
|
services, legal agreements, and balancing private interests with public
|
|
|
good).
|
|
|
Process
|
|
|
| • |
Convene stakeholders, coordinate collaborative research
|
|
