2010 Private LOCKSS Networks Community Meeting

Private LOCKSS Networks have utilized a variety of technical and organizational designs since 2005 to accomplish a common philosophical aim: to empower cultural memory organizations to participate in and take ownership of their digital preservation practices through community-based initiatives.

This event will provide a forum for current PLNs to share information about their work with each other and with the LOCKSS team. The primary intent is to help these individual community-based networks to themselves form a PLN community that actively shares knowledge, expertise, and tools in an ongoing manner.

This community forum has two objectives. First, to explore organizational principles involved with operating a distributed digital preservation network among collaborating partners. Second, to consider issues specific to using the LOCKSS technology, which is currently the leading technical strategy for distributed digital preservation network building.

Agenda

Monday, October 25

9:30 - 9:45a: Introduction

9:45 - 10:15a: Keynote

• Martin Halbert (University of North Texas, Educopia Institute) ...Their Unknown and Undiscovered Brothers (pdf)

10:15 - 10:30a: Break

10:30 - 11:30a: Introductions from each PLN (pecha kucha)

Each PLN representative was given 5 minutes to provide an overview of their projects. Several presenters decided to forego the use of slides. Direct links to project sites have been provided as a consistent alternative:

• The Alabama Digital Preservation Network (ADPNet)
• Controlled LOCKSS (CLOCKSS)
• The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) PLN
• The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS)
• Government Printing Office (GPO)
• The LOCKSS-KOPAL Interoperability Project (LuKII)
• The MetaArchive Cooperative
• The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS)
• Synergies
• LOCKSS-USDOCS

11:30 - 12:00: Facilitated conversation

12:00 - 12:45: Lunch

12:45 - 01:45: Current Technology: Tools, Protocols, and Standards

• Tom Lipkis (LOCKSS) - presentation not currently available
• Kathrin Grzeschik (LuKII) - LuKII: (LOCKSS-und-KOPAL-Infrastruktur-und- Interoperabilität) (pdf)

01:45 - 02:45: Organizational Models

• Richard Pearce-Moses (PeDALS) - PeDALS: Organizational Models (pdf)
• Aaron Trehub (ADPNet) - Organizational Models: Alabama and ADPNet (pdf)
• James Jacobs (US Gov Docs) - LOCKSS-USDOCS: Organizational Model (pdf)

02:45 - 03:00: Break

03:00 - 04:00: Policy and Planning

• Dwayne Buttler (MetaArchive Cooperative) - Managing Policy, Possibility, and (Risk)? (pdf)
• Katherine Skinner (MetaArchive Cooperative) - Policies and Practice: The MetaArchive Cooperative (pdf)

04:00 - 05:00: Facilitated conversation

Tuesday, October 26

09:00 - 10:00: Technology Development and Interoperability

• Jon Crabtree (Data-PASS) - LOCKSS Auditing Using the SAFE-Archive System (pdf)
• Matt Schultz (MetaArchive Cooperative) - MetaArchive Cooperative: Technology Development & Interoperability (pdf)

10:00 - 11:00: Sustainability and Economics

• Vicky Reich (LOCKSS) - The LOCKSS Program and Sustainability (pdf)
• Andrew Waller (COPPUL) - presentation not currently available
• Tyler Walters (MetaArchive Cooperative) - Economics, Sustainability, and the Cooperative Model in Digital Preservation (pdf)

11:00 - 11:15: Break

11:15 - 12:15: Facilitated conversation

12:15 - 01:00: Lunch

01:00 - 02:00: Building a PLN Community

• Martha Anderson (Library of Congress) - Considerations for a PLN Community (pdf)
• Micah Altman (MetaArchive Cooperative) - presentation not currently available

02:00 - 03:00: Facilitated conversation and wrap up

Event Sponsors: Educopia Institute, Persistent Digital Archives and Library System Network (PeDALS), National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)