Content Transfer

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Content Transfer

• NDIIPP Meeting
• July 9, 2008
• Jane Mandelbaum, LC

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Panel Members

• Stephen Abrams, CDL
• Keith Johnson, Stanford
• Justin Mathena, UCSB
• Joe Pawletko, NYU
• Brian Vargas, LC

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2008 Year of Content

• Content Transfer with LC as a Partner and
  Recipient
• Building Content Management Workflows and Best
  Practices

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Content TransferWhat Weve Been Doing and How

• Transfer What We Mean
• Send Us A Copy of Some Content
• Bag and Tag
• Gather It Up, Label It and Get it To Us.
• We Will Keep it In an Archival System.
• We Can Give It Back to You As We Got It.
• The Data Transfer Decision Tree

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Content Transfer Start-up BasicsNovember 2007

• We Need Every Partner
• We Know Every Partner is Different
• Well Work With Everyone
• What We Need to Start
• Lead Contact from Partner
• LC Data Wrangler(s)
• Pathway to Action
• Guidance and Examples

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Transfer The Basic Elements

• Content
• Metadata
• Packaging
• File Manifest
• Package Manifest
• Shipping
• Ingest Server
• Package Receipt
• Inventory
• Archival System

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Content Transfer Whats Happened So Far

• Moved Bits
• Developed a Specification for the Package
  Manifest (with CDL)
• Identified Best Practices
• - Network Transfer Tools
• - Sizes and Wrappers of Packages
• - Validation
• - Architecture on Receiving Side

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Content TransferBuilding on Architectural Models

• From Presentation by Clay Shirky, July 25,
  2002..and
• From NDIIPP Architecture Model, version 0.2 (2006)

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4 Layers Between People and Bits
Interfaces Collections Gateways Reposit
ories
Preliminary Architectural Proposal For Long-Term
Digital Preservation Clay Shirky 7/25/2002
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NDIIPP Architecture 0.2
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Content Transfer Whats Next

• Add New Partners
• Set up Transfer Schedules for Continuing
  Transfers
• Continue to Build Best Practices
• Content will Remain a Focus