Listed below are brief descriptions of presentations at meetings and conferences related to the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Some presentations can be viewed directly in a browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer only) in Powerpoint Presentation format (.pps) or may be downloaded in native Powerpoint (.ppt) format:

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Eleanor Frierson, Deputy Director at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), presents information about the NAL Digital Publication Preservation Program, which has been underway for the last 10 years. Also discussed are plans to establish a National Digital Library for Agriculture (NDLA) with a focus on partnerships and distributed collections to preserve text, images, moving images, and databases.
Betsy Humphreys, Associate Director for Library Operations and Assistant Director for Health Services Research Information at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), outlines NLM's general approach to digital preservation, and describes recent NLM projects that support agency's access and preservation mission. These projects include development of an electronic document template for creating or preserving electronic journal articles and tagging agency web content with permanence ratings.
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, delivers a progress report on NDIIPP. The presentation includes review of initial project planning; status of the three main NDIIPP investment areas: 1) content partnerships, 2) preservation network architecture, 3) advance preservation research; and near-term plans for expanding NDIIPP, including establishing partnerships with the States.
Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, gives an overview of IMLS programs supporting management and preservation of digital information. These program include the annual Web Wise Conference and development of the published Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. She also discusses several State-wide digital implementation projects.
Clay Shirky, a Library of Congress consultant, presents information about the revised NDIIPP technical architecture, which is a conceptual framework for defining the functions and tools required for a national digital preservation network. He also provides a briefing on the Archive Ingest and Handling Test, which is involves documenting and measuring work involved to ingest a test set of digital content into four different preservation repositories.
Ken Thibodeau, ERA Program Office Director at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), describes plans for the Electronic Records Archives (ERA). Details are provided about NARA's plans to award contracts for two "competing designs" for the system, as well as about plans to reach operating capacity in FY 2007 and full capacity FY in 2011. The presentation details a number of unique requirements that NARA perceives for ERA.

Following is a webcast recording of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board meeting on June 28, 2004.