Not Going it Alone: The US National Agenda for Digital Stewardship and Repositories

Abstract

This presentation relates repository concepts to digital preservation opportunities and activities described by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) [1] 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship [2] in four broad areas: Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices; Digital Content Areas; Infrastructure Development; and Research Priorities with the goal of informing OR2014 attendees about this significant national initiative.

In July of 2013 the NDSA released the NDSA 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship [2] which highlights emerging technological trends, identifies gaps in digital stewardship capacity, and provides funders and decision-makers with insight into the work needed to ensure that today’s valuable digital content remains accessible and comprehensible in the future. The NDSA is committed to facilitating a coordinated approach to the preservation of shared digital assets by including the perspective of dozens of experts and hundreds of institutions of the NDSA to identify the highest-impact opportunities to advance the state of the art; the state of practice; and the state of collaboration within the next 3-5 years in digital stewardship.