https://wiki.diglib.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Jspencer 2026-05-10T20:12:59Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.44.0 https://wiki.diglib.org/index.php?title=NDSA:Who_we_Might_Want_to_Invite_to_Comment&diff=3478 2012-01-02T18:02:03Z

<p>Jspencer: </p> <hr /> <div>Who do we want to invite to comment on our key factor's and questions once we have them. Ideally identify who they are, why you think they are interesting, and your name if you are willing to contact them. <br /> <br /> #Someone From DuraSpace: They have been going at this for a good while, they are in our community and I think it would benifit us all to have them well represented in this project. -Trevor KC: might want to have this talk about Fedora/DSpace and how the two got off the ground and then eventually decided to merge.<br /> #Someone From CHNM (Sharon Leon, Tom Scheinfeldt: Omeka and Zotero are both rather robust open source projects, they also run a fair amount of OSS to support a range of projects, (Drupal, WordPress) -Trevor<br /> #Someone from WordPress (I know a few core devs), very successful project with a large community. -Trevor<br /> #Collective Access Seth ? - Karen - I can track down his last name His company Whirlagig gets paid to develop software but then releases it as open source as part of his paid agreement. He feels he can support himself with services around the tools he builds and releases it as open will increase users.<br /> #Someone from Blacklight or Hydra project at Stanford (Tom Cramer) or Variations on Video at Indiana Univ (John Dunn) or both - Karen They are building large enterprise preservation systems for university libraries....I want to know why not buy something off the shelf?<br /> <br /> From John Spencer - <br /> <br /> Do you want any commercial service providers to be a part of this, or only non-profit organizations?</div>

Jspencer https://wiki.diglib.org/index.php?title=NDSA:Open_Source_Member_Questions&diff=3469 2012-01-02T17:57:29Z

<p>Jspencer: </p> <hr /> <div>List out your ideas for questions for us each to respond to here. Ideally, we would like to have a relatively short set of questions that get at the heart of the key decision factors. <br /> <br /> #What role does different software licenses play in decisions to adopt Open Source software?<br /> #Can you describe a time when you adopted an open source software tool for a particular project? Describe the situation and the key factors in the decision and then evaluate how successful or unsuccessful the tool served your goals. Going forward what do you see as the key implications of this case? <br /> # Can you describe a time when you decided not to adopt an open source software tool for a particular project? What were the key reasons for your decision?<br /> #Can you describe your decision process for software? What are the key questions you ask about any given software? <br /> #If you have been using a open source system (for digital preservation) (KC: thought we might want to focus it) for several years what parts of managing that application take up most of your time?<br /> #How do you decide if the community around the software is strong and sustainable? or if it matters?<br /> #How do you decide how much of your own time to put into documentation to make it easier for others to use? Does this effect the decision of whether to release as open source?<br /> #How do you weigh the advantages of flexibility with open source against potential dependable sustainability with a vendor?<br /> ---<br /> From John Spencer (and I may be doing this wrong...).<br /> <br /> Couple of more data points I'd like to see from the commercial side, but I think they may be able to be &quot;blended&quot; into your questions above. I'm thinking about things such as:<br /> <br /> 1. How much does &quot;vendor lock-in' contribute to your ability (or lack of) to deploy open-source software?<br /> 2. Have you found any examples of open-source software that have improved your business practices (and did they lower your TCO?)?<br /> 3. Is open-source software a goal to deploy within your organization, or do you anticipate you will remain a user of vendor-based software?<br /> <br /> These questions are really only valid if you are seeking input from the commercial community, and I think you should. Comments?</div>

Jspencer https://wiki.diglib.org/index.php?title=NDSA:Categories_and_Action_Teams&diff=1953 2011-02-07T16:45:16Z

<p>Jspencer: /* Standards Survey Categories */</p> <hr /> <div>Following is a short list of categories for the Standards Survey project. Feel free to edit these as you see fit and add more of your own. The whole idea here is that we work on what we're interested in so that we leverage our individual expertise in this project. Please put your name and email address under the category or categories you're interested in working on. <br /> <br /> We already have the following action team:<br /> <br /> '''Survey Template Editing'''<br /> <br /> Kate Murray<br /> <br /> Andrea Goethals<br /> <br /> Shane Beers<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == '''Standards Survey Categories''' ==<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Audiovisual File Formats'''<br /> <br /> Courtney Michael - courtney_michael@wgbh.org<br /> <br /> Kate Murray - kate.murray1@nara.gov<br /> <br /> John Spencer - jspencer@bmschace.com<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Preservation Metadata'''<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Preservation Models &amp; Evaluation Metrics'''<br /> <br /> Matt Schultz - matt.schultz@metaarchive.org<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Preservation Infrastructure'''<br /> <br /> Kris Carpenter - kcarpenter@archive.org<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Preservation Practices'''<br /> <br /> Andrea Goethals - andrea_goethals@harvard.edu<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''''Add Your Own!'''''<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Standards_and_Best_Practices_Working_Group NDSA Standards Group Home]</div>

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