The NDIIPP preservation network: progress, problems, and promise

Summary form only given. The national digital information infrastructure and preservation program (NDIIPP), authorized by Congress in 2000 and led by the Library of Congress, is addressing a variety of critical issues that confront all who are working on long-term access to digital information: the nature of collecting in the digital age; the IP and data-privacy barriers that can stymie collection and access policies that serve the public interest; thorny technical and format problems that make digital data especially vulnerable to loss; curatorial practices that do not scale well in the digital realm; and above all, modeling and testing the organizational structures that are best positioned to ensure longevity of authentic digital data over time. NDIIPP makes multimillion-dollar investments in digital preservation research, testing preservation architectures, and building new models of collaborative collecting and preserving digital knowledge, reaching across a broad spectrum of communities to develop the key nodes of a national network of committed preserving institutions. This panel will outline several specific investments and describe how LC plans to continue building out a digital preservation network