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Keynote Ideas

Cleared out some of the longer list of speakers that are not really under consideration and put them here. Keep those fresh ideas coming!

We have roughly 9 plenary slots. These could be either solo keynotes or panels. The first two slots on the first day should probably be keynotes and should be rock starts.

We have 3 different sections of breakouts, with roughly 6 different concurrent sessions planned, for a total of 18 breakout sessions.

The list below is for individuals to be either a keynote or to lead a panel discussion (mostly keynote) Farther down there are draft potential sessions.


Consider Strongly

  • Lev Manovich, Director, Software Studies Initiative, University of California, San Diego YouTube
  • Kate Crawford, Microsoft Research. We could ask her talk about researcher use of data. She also works with Danah Boyd. Watch vid here.
  • George Oates, Art Director at Stamen Design. Formerly at Internet Archive and Flickr




  • Arfon Smith, Director of Citizen Science, Adler Planetarium, and Technical Lead for The Zooniverse interview -- could also be part of a collaboration or crowdsourcing panel
  • Jessica McKellar, Python Software Foundation
  • Jay Parikh is the VP of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, but inviting him to talk about the Open Compute Project. Here’s his keynote from a conference last year. He touched a little on scaling data centers, so we maybe we could get him interested in our digigreen panel from last year and comment on it.

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29558


Need to Research More

OK But Not Quite

Potential speakers who have been invited, but cannot attend

  • danah boyd on 2/18 by Barrie, declined
  • Amber Case TED Talk, on 2/20 by Erin, declined
  • Henry Rollins, declined

Keynotes, Panels or Breakouts

The following could be either plenary panels or breakout sessions depending on an overall evaluation of their quality. Additionally, stellar individuals might make for a good keynote.


PLACE:


Software Preservation

  • Recreate the panel from the NDIIPP briefing on Preserving .EXE report
  • Matt Kirshenbaum
  • NIST folks
  • LC software curator


Revisiting Archive Ingest and Handling Test:

  • Old Dominion (Michael Nelson)
  • Johns Hopkins University (Sayeed Choudhury or Tim DiLauro)
  • Stanford University
  • Harvard University (Stephen Abrams, now at CDL)
  • 9/11 Archive at George Mason


Preserving Digital News

  • Greg Price from Newsdiffs and YouTomb (could also be under Web Archiving panel)
  • Jacob Harris, NY Times
  • Mine NICAR site


Preserving Digital Audio

  • John Spencer from BMS/Chace
  • Maureen Droney from the Academy
  • Authors of LC Recorded Sound report (Sam Brylawski? Very entertaining speaker)
  • Someone from DDEX
  • More info at [4]


BIG DATA:

  • Jerry Johnston, Geospatial Information Officer, Dept of Interior. Geospatial Platform to host BD
  • Yael Garten, senior data scientist LinkedIn Strata 2013 conference video
  • Alyssa Henry (Amazon Web Services) 2.0 Summit
  • Doug Cutting creator of Hadoop
  • LC - Carl Watts or NavCC
  • someone from NASA about their code.nasa.gov or nebula cloud computing platform [5]
  • NCAR rep to talk about Community Data Portal and/or Chronopolis/iRODs distributed storage (PI Don Middleton does sport a great beard!
  • NARA - ask Meg Phillips who is the BD person at Archives II. Perhaps Margaret O. Adams, Supervisory Archivist, Archival Electronic Records Operations, National Archives and Records Administration
  • SDSC - Brian Schottlaender or David Minor
  • UMD - Mike Smorel or Joseph JaJa
  • ICPSR - George Alter
  • JHU - Tim DiLauro
  • USGS - ask Richard Huffine who is the BD person


Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations:

  • Kate Zwaard, LC
  • Other peeps who have to manage developers and have a "real" view of what managing these projects means


Web Archiving Panel

  • usual suspects
  • something about Open Wayback project? (IIPC)
  • NDSA Web archiving survey results
  • "web archiving state of the union"/future - CDL folks (Abbie will contact)

Web at 25: How well have we preserved

  • Lee Rainie
  • TBD panel


File Format Action Plans

  • NARA: Arian, Kevin Devorsey, Don Chalfant
  • Lee from LC


Digital Oral History


Information Equivalency

  • Peter Krogh on changes to Getty image policy
  • Someone from PicScout
  • Somebody from Getty
  • Somebody from YouTube on their algorithms based on 2008 TedTalk from then-Head of User Experience Margaret Gould Stewart:


Archiving social media

  • Facebook
  • Google Data Liberation
  • LinkedIN
  • Aaron Cope on Flickr tools and other tools etc.
  • Pinterest -- NYPL is on pinterest so we could probably get a contact through them
  • youtube
  • foursquare
  • twitter (?)


Collaboration:

  • DPLA
  • Digital Preservation Network (DPN) (might even consider giving them a plenary---see above)
  • organizations or projects using technology platforms or social advocacy methods to collaborate for access to open data for the public good. (AKA Erin's attempt at an all-local panel.)
  • Ellen Miller, executive director Sunlight Foundation
  • Jerry Johnston, Geospatial Information Officer, Dept of Interior. Geospatial Platform to host BD
  • Eric Gundersen, CEO Mapbox presentation bio


Digital Preservation Tools Overview:

  • Bagit
  • LC CTS
  • also could include inadvertent preservation tools like Github (ask Ed Summers/Trevor)


Scientific Data At-Risk:

  • led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI (Don Hagen)
  • Jane Greenberg
  • John Faundeen
  • Chris Muller


Data Management Plans

  • NSF data management plans
  • CDL data management plan tool
  • NIH data management plans
  • NARA


Personal Digital Archiving

  • selection of the best presentations from PDA 2014 in Indianapolis


Digital forensics:

  • MITH


Crowdsourcing

  • From Andrew Turner: panels on Crowdsourcing, particularly perhaps Geo-crowdsourcing. I'm thinking a discussion like for OSM, particularly Mikel Maron (local in DC, founder of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap). He helps impoverished communities work with OSM such as the Kibera slums in Nairobi, or citizens of Myanmar, Philippines, etc. If citizens & hackers are gathering their own data who is thinking about how this is preserved (each iteration) as well as to ensure they don't go back to a blank map?


The hardest digital content to preserve

  • Rhizome
  • Ben Fino-Radin from MOMA
  • Games
  • the hardest things!


Levels Workshop

  • breakout session most likely and do a "Levels of Preservation" workshop
  • John Faundeen on USGS levels activity
  • Andrea Goethals, Harvard
  • Meg Phillips, NARA


Cloud Computing as part of Stewardship Infrastructure

  • Duracloud
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Gail Truman and Nancy Silver's thing


The LOLs of Nations: Understanding Global Memes

  • Ben Valentine (soon to be a resident at the Internet Archive. Build off of the discussion at this SXSW panel.



Towards a Proposal for Digital Preservation Testbeds

  • Building on a "research question" from 2014 National Agenda, what needs to be done to develop a digital stewardship testbed (or testbeds)


Commercial digital archiving services:

  • ArchiveMatica
  • Preservica


Linked Open data

  • Ed Summers
  • Jon Voss, Historypin


Education Panel

  • NDSA Standards folks to talk about the Staffing Survey and next steps
  • Representative of ALISE
  • Archival education person such as Helen Tibbo
  • Somebody in a library school that runs a digital stewardship certificate program (like Simmons College


Speculative Future

  • Could do another thing with farther out ideas


Panel on "outside" efforts

  • Data Conservancy (and other NSF-funded things)
  • What are some other big digital preservation things that weren't funded by NDIIPP?
  • NSF Datanet programs


Research uses of Preserved Digital Content:

  • social scientists using twitter
  • the work at the Hathi Trust Research Center
  • Digital Afterlife folks
  • issues around pages of the deceased on social media


A Panel of Digital Preservation Pioneers

  • to reminisce about the good old days


Gaps Discussion: Where are the gaps in digital stewardship and how can we address them?

  • sustainability
  • infrastructure
  • technology
  • funding



NDSA Reports Panel

  • A breakout to explain and discuss the implications for different NDSA reports released over the year. Geospatial appraisal and selection, Staffing Survey, PDF/A-3 report, etc.


Preserving Email:


Digital Preservation Plans in Commercial Firms:


The right to be forgotten, opting out of digital preservation infrastructures:

  • Danah Boyd issues (though not her because she can't come)
  • opting out of LC twitter archive?


Online Transactions and Security:

  • Bitcoin.
  • Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information
  • Andreas Antonopoulos from O'Reilly


Economic models for collaborative preservation:


The NSA as a digital preservation organization:

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