[Pasig-discuss] Inaugural LOCKSS Quarterly Newsletter - November 2017

[Arthur Pasquinelli]

There are some events and documents that might be of interest to the broader PASIG and preservation community, so I am sharing this inaugural newsletter beyond the LOCKSS user groups.

Subject: LOCKSS Quarterly Newsletter - November 22, 2017

Welcome to the inaugural LOCKSS Quarterly Newsletter. It is our goal to share developments, activities, and useful information about LOCKSS and preservation, upcoming events, and new content. This is a vehicle to publicize and exchange LOCKSS community news, so please actively participate and share! The Quarterly Newsletter will be kept on the www.lockss.org<http://www.lockss.org/> webpage. If you have any questions or ideas for the next newsletter just email or call Art Pasquinelli at artpasquinelli at stanford.edu<mailto:artpasquinelli at stanford.edu>, 650-430-2441.

We have seen growing momentum for LOCKSS in 2017. This includes the Mellon Grant to re-architect LOCKSS into a web services framework, new LOCKSS networks, a closer positioning of the LOCKSS program within the Stanford IT infrastructure, a number of speaking engagements, and a big uptick in partner discussions. LOCKSS has been much more actively involved in other associations and communities such as NDSA, PASIG, CNI, and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). Lastly, we have instituted more communication mechanisms within the LOCKSS community – including this newsletter – and we will be revamping the LOCKSS website in the next few months. Many thanks to everyone who has been contributing on the monthly calls so far. As we go forward, please feel free to offer comments, advice, and content.

I. Community News

A. LOCKSS Transitions: Founders of LOCKSS retire, new leadership and grant continue innovative nature of the preservation network. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards LOCKSS just over $1.2 Million to upgrade its architecture; welcome news to founders Dr. David S.H. Rosenthal and Victoria Reich who will phase out of the organization by early next year. See the Stanford article on Vicky and and David Retiring at
http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/260487/6e9b644305/ARCHIVE

B. Stanford U. LOCKSS Program to Mainstream Distributed Digital Preservation through New Project, September 7, 2017
https://library.stanford.edu/node/130509

C. An open Google Docs folder now holds past presentation and monthly LOCKSS Zoom call content. You can see recent October-November monthly call slide decks on the LOCKSS Overview, ADPN, SAFE, and the November 15 LOCKSS presentation at Dodging the Memory Hole (DTMH) in San Francisco:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZToNMm2aLp-A_9e_fd4UVtBoka5aCo3N

D. Welcome Perma.cc as a new LOCKSS Network! Perma.cc is based at Harvard and can be seen at https://perma.cc<https://perma.cc/>/. Perma.cc is developed and maintained by the Harvard Law School Library in conjunction with university law libraries across the country and other organizations in the “forever” business.

In a sample of several legal journals<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329161>, approximately 70% of all links in citations published between 1999 and 2011 no longer point to the same material. Broken links in journal articles undermine the citation-based system of legal scholarship by obscuring the evidence underlying authors’ ideas. When a user creates a Perma.cc link, Perma.cc archives the referenced content and generates a link to an archived record of the page. Regardless of what may happen to the original source, the archived record will always be available through the Perma.cc link.

II. Upcoming LOCKSS-related Events, Activities, and Trainings

A. Save the Date for the Next LOCKSS Annual Meeting! The next annual LOCKSS meeting at Stanford is scheduled for March 29-30, 2018. The LDCX developer conference will be the Monday-Wednesday before. Details on both these events will be coming in the next several weeks.

B. The first LOCKSS Quarterly Technical Zoom Call will be at 9am PT on December 6, 2017. Thib Guicherd-Callin will do a technology review of the LOCKSS web services development that he and his team are working on. He will then have an open Q&A.

https://stanford.zoom.us/j/3122819697           Meeting ID: 312 281 9697
Dial: +1 650 724 9799 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll Free)
International numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/zoomconference?m=HnWNYPQOZx83yC_s4ngFs-84pKE29zfr

C. The next LOCKSS Monthly Zoom Call will be December 13, 2017 at 9am PT. James Jacobs, Stanford’s Government Information Librarian, will give an update on the Digital Federal Depository Library LOCKSS network. James will also review trends he sees in federal government documents and data preservation and his impressions of the recent Dodging the Memory Hole conference. Additionally, Kris Kazianovitz, the Stanford Government Information Librarian for International, State and Local Documents, will provide her insights on trends following the recent Best Practices Exchange (BPE) Conference in Boston  (https://bpexchange.wordpress.com<https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/>).

https://stanford.zoom.us/j/3122819697           Meeting ID: 312 281 9697
Dial: +1 650 724 9799 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll Free)
International numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/zoomconference?m=HnWNYPQOZx83yC_s4ngFs-84pKE29zfr

D. Events Planning Calendar for LOCKSS:

- LOCKSS Annual Meeting, March 29-30, 2018, Stanford (preceded by LDCX)
- Open Repositories 2018, June 4-7, 2018, Bozeman, Montana
- iPres, September 24-27, 2018, Boston
- DLF/NDSA, October 15-18, Las Vegas
- PASIG, February 14-16, 2019, Mexico City

***Note: Please inform us of your LOCKSS-related events for this quarterly calendar and to publicize on the monthly Zoom calls and website!

III. Useful Content and Events

A. PASIG: The Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group had its annual meeting in September. The presentations are presently at https://pasigoxford.figshare.com<https://pasigoxford.figshare.com/>/.
The Twitter notes from the meeting are at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KbenZQTNZ_KUAYdrlH2bptk_z0lkqqjbTlSmbGfcQc4/edit#heading=h.ht36l8suiab6
The main PASIG website has all the past years’ content and is at http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org<http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/>.

B. Other key groups that create resources focused on Preservation include:

1) Digital Preservation Coalition - http://www.dpconline.org/

2) National Digital Stewardship Alliance - http<http://ndsa.org/>://ndsa.org<http://ndsa.org/>/<http://ndsa.org/>

3) iPres - https://ipres-conference.org/

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Art Pasquinelli
LOCKSS Partnerships Manager
Stanford University Libraries
Cell: 1-650-430-2441
artpasquinelli at stanford.edu<mailto:artpasquinelli at stanford.edu>
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