Trustworthy Repositories, Organizations & Infrastructure

Micah Altman, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard UniversityJonathan Crabtree, Odum Institute, University of North Carolina

Nancy McGovern, ICPSR, University of Michigan

Prepared for Library of Congress Digital Preservation Partnership Meeting

July 2010

Collaborators*

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Margaret Adams, Caroline Arms, Ed Bachman, Adam Buchbinder, Ken Bollen, Bryan Beecher, Steve Burling, Darrell Donakowski, Myron Gutmann, Gary King, Patrick King, Jared Lyle, Marc Maynard, Amy Pienta, Lois Timms-Ferrarra.

Research SupportThanks to the Library of Congress (PA#NDP03-1), the

National Science Foundation (DMS-0835500, SES 0112072), IMLS (LG-05-09-0041-09), the Harvard University Library, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and the Murray Research Archive.

* And co-conspirators

Related Work

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Reprints available from: http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu

Altman, M., Beecher, B., and Crabtree, J.; with L. Andreev, E. Bachman, A. Buchbinder, S. Burling, P. King, M. Maynard.. (2009). "A Prototype Platform for Policy-Based Archival Replication." Against the Grain. 21(2): 44-47.

Altman, M., Adams, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., Maynard, M., Pienta, A., & Young, C. (2009). "Digital preservation through archival collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences." The American Archivist. 72(1): 169-182

Myron Gutmann, Abrahamson, M, Adams, M.O., Altman, M, Arms, C., Bollen, K., Carlson, M., Crabtree, J., Donakowski, D., King, G., Lyle, J., Maynard, M., Pienta, A., Rockwell, R, Timms-Ferrara L., Young, C., 2009. "From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the challenges of preserving digital social science data", Library Trends 57(3):315-33

Micah Altman, 2009. "Transformative Effects of NDIIPP, the case of the Henry A. Murray Archive", Library Trends 57(3): 338-35

Preservation and Collaboration-- Three Big Questions Risks.

How do virtual organizations reduce preservation risks?

Trust. What trust relationships should virtual

organizations establish with members? Evaluation.

How can we evaluate relationships with virtual organizations be evaluated?

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Conjectures

Organizations reduce preservation risk by: Providing systematic redundancy across diverse …

Technical approaches: software, hardware, formats Institutional environments: funding models, legal regime Institutional control: curation, deaccessioning

Enhancing preservation readiness: Awareness of risks and risk management approaches Awareness & use of best practices Active exercise of cataloging information, licensing

terms, API’s Trust and evaluation should be based on:

Linking policy objectives to explicitly-defined roles, actions, and expected outcomes

Continuous evaluation and monitoring based on organizational incentives, capacity, & commitments

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One tool… SAFE-ArchivePolicy-Based Replication & Auditing

Facilitating collaborative replication and preservation with technology…

Collaborators declare explicit non-uniform resource commitments

Policy records commitments, storage network properties

Storage layer provides replication, integrity, freshness, versioning

SAFE-Archive software provides monitoring, auditing, and provisioning

Content is harvested through HTTP (LOCKSS) or OAI-PMH

Integration of LOCKSS, The Dataverse Network, TRAC

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Why this tool?

To facilitate institutions in making commitments aligned with their policies and incentives, and

Automatically executeand monitor those commitments and policies

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Contact Us

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Micah Altman

maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu

Jonathan Crabtree

www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=522

Nancy McGovernwww.icpsr.org/icpsrweb/ICPSR/staff/mcgovern.jsp

• Policy and evaluation. What policies should members adopt to the use of collaboratives in

their preservation strategy? How should members document the ways in which collaboratives

support their preservation strategy? When a preservation strategy relies on a collaborative, how should

evaluators approach assessment of the collaborative? Examination of risks Which preservation risks are collaboratives/virtual organizations  in

the best position to mitigate? What additional risks do virtual organizations and collaboratives

create? How do characteristics of a collaborative, such as geographical

diversity affect its ability to reduce preservation risks for its members? How do we define “Trust” in ……. preservation partners preservation technologies and components preservation collaborations Trust but Verify How can collaborations balance trust and risk? What evidence is required to substantiate trust?

Audit Reports? MOU’s? Contracts?

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