NGDA

Sundry documents related to the National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA), an NDIIPP-funded project...

Archive data model

Papers

A Data Model and Architecture for Long-term Preservation. Greg Janée, Justin Mathena, and James Frew (2008). Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; June 16-20, 2008): 134-144.
Relay-supporting Archives: Requirements and Progress. Greg Janée, James Frew, and Terry Moore (2008). Proceedings of the 4th International Digital Curation Conference (to appear).

Presentations

ICESS seminar
2005 NDIIPP partners meeting
Digital Curation Centre seminar
National e-Science Centre workshop
2007 NDIIPP partners meeting
JCDL 2008

Project docs

First-year roadmap
Architecture update
Project activities diagram
Second-year goals and tasks
Federation architecture
2008-9 development plan

2005 data provider workshop

Provider questions
Keynote presentation

Miscellaneous thoughts

Push vs. pull
Semantic representation, archive policy, and IP frameworks
Longevity, Scale, Economy: Pick Any Two