Infrastructure Working Group

Overview
The NDSA Infrastructure Working Group works to identify and share emerging practices around the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities supporting the long term preservation of digital content.

The Group is currently surveying emerging practices around the use of large-scale and cloud storage platforms for digital preservation. Future projects may include:


 * Promoting the collaborative development of free and open source tools, using sustainable software development processes and to create a structure for the support of the software over time.
 * Exploring the use of computer forensics tools for the appraisal, processing, and preservation of born-digital collections.
 * Encouraging communities with highly specialized needs (e.g., geospatial, datasets, observational data) to develop storage networks or access services that can serve the entire community.