NSF Workshop on Research Challenges in Digital Archiving: Towards a National Infrastructure for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information

 

Final Report (pdf)

Workshop on Research Challenges in Digital Archiving: Towards a
National Infrastructure for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information

Airlie Center
6809 Airlie Road
Warrenton, Virginia 20187

April 12-13, 2002

Sponsored by
National Science Foundation Digital Government Program
 National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

Organizing Committee
Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, Chair
Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany
Carl Fleischhauer, Library of Congress
James Gray, Microsoft Research
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Victor McCrary, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Kenneth Thibodeau, National Archives and Records Administration
Donald Waters, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The purpose of this workshop is to identify the research challenges in the area of long-term preservation of digital information and to develop a set of priorities for research. The need for robust, scalable, and affordable solutions for digital archiving and preservation is becoming more pronounced as public and private organizations rely extensively and, in some cases, exclusively on information in digital form to transact business, keep official records, store and manage research data, and to publish and disseminate information. Because the digital archiving challenge is complex, progress in this area depends on segmenting the broad problem of long-term preservation into reasonable research objectives, setting priorities, mobilizing resources, and encouraging more research to address this problem.

Participants in the workshop will include researchers working in the areas of digital archiving, metadata and information representation, digital libraries, storage media and distributed caching systems, information economics, web harvesting, trusted systems and authentication, and computer security.

Workshop goals include:
§ Identify the research challenges in digital archiving and preservation;
§ Set priorities for research based on input from stakeholders;
§ Develop a compelling research agenda that will encourage qualified researchers to develop research projects that address this problem;
§ Propose mechanisms that could build a community of researchers and foster cross-fertilization among research projects.

Attendance is by invitation only, with a maximum of 50 participants.

 

NSF Digital Government Program NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems Library of Congress

For more information contact:  Jen Lee