Members of the SNIA Long Term Retention TWG will host an online event in mid-December to discuss the objectives of the LTR TWG and the SIRF concepts and use cases.

Watch the LTR website for availability of the online virtual room: http://www.snia.org/ltr.

Also available from the LTR TWG is a tutorial on the long-term preservation of digital information.

Download the presentation here.

SNIA Draft Technical Work Available for Public Review--need link !

Long Term Retention Technical Work Group

The Long Term Retention (LTR) TWG is focused on the technical challenges of long term digital information retention & preservation, namely both physical (“bit”) and logical preservation.

SIRF Use Cases and Functional Requirements

The Self–contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) is a logical container for a set of digital preservation objects that also contains catalogs and metadata related to the entire contents of the container as well as to the individual objects. This logical container makes it easier and more efficient to provide many of the processes needed to address threats to digital content.

The DPCO Committee will hold its next Face to Face Meeting at the SNIA 2011 Winter Symposium held in San Jose, CA from January 24th–27th. All SNIA members are welcome to attend.

Watch for these informative emails once each quarter with news on DPCO Committee activities and events. Comments, ebulletin topic suggestions and questions are always welcome by emailing ebull@snia.org.

Highlighting DPCO Partners

–Long Term Retention TWG

–ILM 2.0 Organization

The goals of the DPCO Committee include education, outreach, and advocacy activities. Since our formation in January 2010, we have met with the Storage Management Initiative to help define SMI–S requirements, the Green Storage Initiative and TWG to progress the EPA ENERGY STAR collaboration, and the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative Cloud Backup/Recovery SIG. In this issue of the eBulletin we are highlighting two recent collaborations with our partners: the SNIA Long Term Retention TWG and the ILM 2.0 organization. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with these organizations and if you are so inclined, to join them as they shape our industry’s future.

Do you know where to find data protection information on the SNIA website? We’ve collected our webcasts, white papers, and presentations in our Knowledge Center. We encourage you to visit the SNIA website to gain access to this valuable material.

Watch and Learn

Presentations and Tutorials

White Papers

SNIA Qualified Data Protection Associate (SQDPA) and related SNIA CoursePaks

All of SNIA’s technical tutorials delivered during SNW Fall 2010 are available online. The SNIA Education committee provides an abstract for each presentation along with a download link.

The following Tutorial was delivered by the Chair of the DPCO Committee during SNW Fall 2010 in Dallas.

Deduplicaton’s Role in Disaster Recovery presented by Thomas Rivera, Sepaton

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) work developed by SNIA is continuing to progress at www.ilm20.org. Current work actively proceeds in four directions: developing a reference model based on ILM as a service management style practice, further developing the Maturity Model and turning it into an audit tool for professional service practitioners, developing an information classification resource for the industry, and integrating ILM2.0 based practices as a service management infrastructure for long–term digital preservation systems (digital archives).

For a better idea on what all this means and how it fits together, read the recent publication:
ILM2.0: The Next Phase.

Participation is welcome and free.