README.md

Islandora Preservation Interest Group

Convenors

• Donald Moses (UPEI)
• Nick Ruest (York)
• Mark Jordan (SFU)

Terms of Reference

• The name of the IIG is the Islandora Preservation Interest Group
• The purpose of the Islandora Preservation Interest Group is to develop and communicate a common approach to address preservation within the Islandora framework.
• Specific goals, activities, outcomes may include:
  • Discussing, developing, testing, implementing and documenting preservation best practices within the Islandora framework.
    • Implementing Persistent URLs
      • Islandora Pathauto
      • Islandora Handle
      • Islandora DOI
    • Building and supporting tools that facilitate the production of PREMIS or other preservation metadata.
      • Islandora PREMIS
    • Building and supporting tools that facilitate preservation workflows.
      • Islandora Checksum
      • Islandora Checksum Checker
      • Islandora FITS
      • Islandora Microservices
        • Explore and develop autonomic approaches to preservation activities.
          • Self-configuration
          • Self-protection
          • Self-optimization
          • Self-healing
        • Implementations
          • UPEI Microservices [PHP Based]
          • Islandora Microservices [Python Based]
        • ensure that Islandora/microservices generates/captures/records preservation metadata/events
        • build workflows that facilitate the automation of preservation activities (eg. checksum checking, report generation, format migration, off-site storage, etc.)
  • Developing Islandora preservation format policies
    • Format Registry Problem (Code4Lib article)
    • Islandora Preservation Documentation (started here based on Nick’s repo docs / ScholarsPortal)
    • Archivematica’s format policies
    • Archivematica’s Format Policy Registry
  • Exploring Islandora’s integration with other preservation workflow frameworks.
    • Archivematica
    • Scout (OpenPlanets)
  • Exploring various export, storage and backup options
    • Islandora BagIt
    • Islandora Vault (islandora integration with CloudSync and DuraCloud in Paul Pound’s github)
    • Islandora LOCKSS-O-Matic (in Mark J’s git … awesome)
    • Drupal Amazon Web Services (potentially the base of an Islandora module … would it hook to Glacier?)
  • Exploring Islandora preservation within the Fedora4 context.
  • Keeping abreast of preservation activities within the Fedora community.
    • Hydra
    • RODA
  • Aligning Islandora’s preservation framework with the requirements of Trusted Digital Repository/TRAC certification.
• The interest group will meet once a month virtually (eg. via Skype). A call for agenda items will be posted to the Islandora Google Group 1 week prior to the meeting. The convenor will appoint a note taker for the meeting and meeting notes will be made available at some url.
• The convenors will produce a report to be submitted to the Islandora Roadmap Committee following the IPIG’s meeting.

Membership

• Mark Jordan (SFU)
• Nick Ruest (YU)
• Donald Moses (UPEI)
• Melissa Anez (IF)
• Mark Leggott (UPEI)
• Robin Dean (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries)
• Ryan Gjerde (Luther College)
• Nathan Books (Northern Illinois University)
• Aaron Collie (Michigan State University)
• Alex Kent (PALS)
• Michael Bolam (University of Pittsburgh)
• Kelli Babcock (University of Toronto Libraries)
• Allison Brown (University of Otago Library)
• Kirsta Stapelfeldt (University of Toronto)
• Becky Yoose (Grinnell College Libraries)
• Ernie Gillis (Berklee College of Music Archives)
• Sofia Becerra-Licha (Berklee College of Music Archives)