'''In attendance'''
*Oliver Bendorf
*Maureen Harlow
*Margaret Maes
*Edward McCain
*Christie Moffatt
*Abbey Potter
*Michael Stohler
*Lauren Work

Members were asked to consider the following questions in advance of the meeting:

*What activities do you get the most out of? What do you find less useful?
**Monthly discussions
**Monthly presentations
**Signal blog posts
**Contributing the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Contributing to web archiving survey Reading the wiki Face to face collaboration
**Opportunity to work on projects with other members Sharing my own work and projects Etc.

*What content related issues would you like to see the CWG bring up or cover that it hasn't?

*What groups or projects should the CWG reach out to?

*What are your questions for DLF and the Library of Congress during the transition?

-----------------------------
'''Feedback (please add!)'''

'''Working Group structure'''
*Discussed idea of smaller NDSA teams forming around specific topics and projects. One challenge mentioned was on how to best coordinate efforts across the organization.
*Support was expressed for cross-working group efforts (with the Standards WG on born-digital workflows, for example)

'''Activities'''
*Seemed to be good support for continuing case studies and Signal blog posts (Content Matters interview series)
*Member presentations are helpful and should continue

'''Focus'''
*Opportunity to broaden mission/rethink purpose statement
*Continue to support communities forming around subject areas (like born-digital news), but consider how this relates to the broader working group. Format/document type may be another approach to explore further.
*Reach out to the Dodging the Memory Hole group around born-digital news

'''Communication'''
*More information about the meetings would help members keep up if they miss a call
*Explore communication tools available via DLF
*Consider opening meeting minutes to a broader community
*Communicate more via listserv

2015-12-07T21:28:32Z

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Discussed the activities of the working group, what works well and what doesn’t, and how we might recommend the group carry forward into the future. Oliver Bendorf of DLF joined us for the discussion.

*What activities do you get the most out of? What do you find less useful?
**Monthly discussions
**Monthly presentations
**Signal blog posts
**Contributing the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Contributing to web archiving survey Reading the wiki Face to face collaboration
**Opportunity to work on projects with other members Sharing my own work and projects Etc.

*What content related issues would you like to see the CWG bring up or cover that it hasn't?

*What groups or projects should the CWG reach out to?

*What are your questions for DLF and the Library of Congress during the transition?

Meeting Notes

NDSA:Calendar

2015-11-04T11:29:19Z

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NDSA:Calendar

2015-11-04T11:27:50Z

Moffattc: /* November 2015 */

'''Content Working Group Calendar'''

Members: feel free to edit this calendar directly to add Content Team meetings, In-person CWG meetings tied in with conferences, or other events. Trouble with wiki editing? Contact Abbie (abgr@loc.gov) if you need help.

We are now signing up members to give brief presentations at our all-hands meetings. Please sign up for any future open slot by clicking "edit" next to the month you'd like to sign up for, and replacing "open" text with your name and institution. See [[NDSA:Member Presentations]] for more information.

= 2013 =

== August 2013 ==

*8/11-17: SAA

*Tuesday 8/20, 3pm ET: Call to discuss Web Archiving Survey planning/questions. Minutes here: [[NDSA:August 21, 2013 Meeting Minutes]]

*8/28 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET: Member Presentations/Discussion. Minutes here: [[NDSA:Content WG August 28, 2013 Meeting Minutes]]
**Margie Maes, LIPA : [[File:NDSA lightning talk Maes LIPA.pdf]]

== September 2013 ==

No meetings scheduled.

== October 2013 ==

*10/2 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. *Agenda: Misc topics: general updates from Content teams, review of web archiving survey, misc. CANCELLED DUE TO SHUTDOWN
*Week of October 21: Web Archiving Survey launch/announcement

== November 2013 ==

*11/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. [[NDSA:CWG Meeting Minutes November 6, 2013]] (includes presentations)
**Rachel Wise (Harvard Business School)
**Rachel Howard (University of Louisville)
**Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
*11/13-15: Best Practices Exchange/Archive-IT partner meeting
*11/30 Web archiving survey closes

== December 2013 ==

*12/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Presenters:
**'''Theme: National Agenda topic: Web and Social Media''' (Kris Carpenter/IA and Abbie Grotke/LC) [[NDSA:12/3/13 Meeting Minutes]] (includes links to presentation slides)

*12/9-12/10: CNI in D.C.

= 2014 =

== January 2014 ==

*1/8: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Electronic Records - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:Jan 8 2014 Minutes]]

Speakers:
*Erik Rau, Hagley (Business Records)
*Sarah Koonts, State Archivist for North Carolina (COSA's SERI)
*Glen McAninch, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (State Records)
*Bob Spangler, NARA (Federal Records)

== February 2014 ==

*2/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion/Updates on CWG business. Presenters:
**Barbara Haws and Mitch Brodsky, New York Philharmonic [[NDSA:CWG February 5 Meeting Minutes]]

== March 2014 ==

*3/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Moving Image and Sound - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 3/5/14]]
**John Spencer, BMS/Chase
**Karen Cariani, WGBH
**Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
**Kat Bell, Dance Heritage Coalition

*3/7-16: SXSW

== April 2014 ==

*4/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''CANCELLED'''

== May 2014 ==

*5/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. [[NDSA:May 7 Minutes]]

Presenters:
Maureen Harlow: National Digital Stewardship Residency at NLM and Nicholas Taylor, Stanford University

== June 2014 ==

*6/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Research Data - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:June 4 Meeting Minutes]]

== July 2014 ==

*7/2: CWG All-hands meeting '''canceled.'''

*7/21 3:30-5pm ET (face-to-face meeting at Library of Congress, Room LM 139) [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes July 21, 2014]]

== August 2014 ==

*8/29: Brainstorming monthly meeting topics [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 8/29/14]]

== September 2014 ==

*9/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 9/3/14]]

== October 2014 ==

*10/1: CWG All-hands meeting. [[NDSA:Meeting minutes 10/1/14]]

== November 2014 ==

*11/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

== December 2014 ==

*12/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p82pmstsurk/

Edward McCain joined us to talk about the recent event held at RJI, Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Born Digital News Content (http://www.rjionline.org/events/memoryhole).

We also had a presentation from Ben Welsh, who is a database producer at the Los Angeles Times and the creator of PastPages, an archive dedicated to the preservation of online news. Ben attended the RJI event and presented about StoryTracker, and will reprise his presentation for our meeting. StoryTracker is a new set of open source tools aimed at analyzing the stories that appear on news homepages. In this brief talk, Ben will show its key features and demonstrate how it could be useful in other efforts to save and scrutinize the Web.

= 2015 =

== January 2015 ==

*1/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

== February 2015 ==

*2/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting is here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p28iezwy6u9/

Focus of meeting was sharing ideas for projects and speakers for 2015. Looked at NDSA National Agenda recommended actions, Web Archiving Survey, and notes from previous brainstorming sessions.

== March 2015 ==

*3/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p998z07jksc/

Passcode: March2015CWG

== April 2015 ==

*4/1: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Theme: Managing Electronic Records (focusing on working with creators) - 2015 National Agenda Content Area

Glen McAninch, University of Kentucky shared the challenges of records retention for websites, working with creators to produce preservation ready formats, metadata

Kevin De Vorsey, NARA shared challenges of providing transfer guidance to 250 federal agencies, flexible time frames for transferring content to NARA, preparing meaningful guidelines for records created now and records that will be handed over many years from now, transfer guidance for records officers that IT can work with, metadata requirements.

== May 2015 ==

*5/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. [[NDSA:Meeting Notes]]

Agenda:
*Member presentation from the Dance Heritage Coalition
*iPRES November 2-6 in Chapel Hill, NC (possible contributions from NDSA members)
*NDSA transition
*Member news

== June 2015 ==

*6/3: CWG All-hands meeting,

Agenda

*Presentation from Vangelis Banos, the creator of the ArchiveReady tool for evaluating website archivability. ArchiveReady makes calculations based on 4 factors: accessibility, cohesion, metadata, and standards compliance. Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/vbanos1/website-archivability-library-of-congress-ndiipp-presentation-20150603.
*Proposals for iPRES 2015 conference, Chapel Hill, NC, November 2-6
*Planning for Web Archiving Survey 2015
*Member announcements/news

== July 2015 ==

*7/1: No meeting

== August 2015 ==

*8/5: No meeting

== September 2015 ==

*DUE to problems with a power outage and hardware failure the NDSA listservs were unoperational August 29-September 3. An email update will be circulated when the listservs are back online and we will reschedule our September call for later in the month. Sorry for the last-minute change.

*9/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Agenda:

*iPres meeting panel, reception (see also http://ipres2015.org/)

*2015 NDSA Web Archiving Survey update

*NDSA transition September 30

== October 2015 ==

*10/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.
Member presentation: Edward McCain on Knight Prototype Fund

== November 2015 ==

*11/4: No meeting. NDSA events at iPRES 2015 in Chapel Hill, NC.

== December 2015 ==

*12/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

NDSA:Content Working Group

2015-09-21T12:55:50Z

Moffattc: /* Content Case Studies */

== Statement of Purpose ==

The Content [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] will focus on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with NDSA partners who will acquire the content, preserve it, and provide access to it.

== Members ==
To see a list of current members, please send a "REVIEW NDSA-CONTENT" command LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV . This returns the e-mail address and name of all the subscribers to our list (aka members). Contact Abbie if you have questions about this.

== How to Get Involved ==
Contact [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group_Co-Chairs|co-chairs]] Christie Moffatt (moffattc@mail.nlm.nih.gov) and Abbey Potter (abpo@loc.gov) to join the working group or to learn more about how to get involved.

'''A few ways to learn more and get involved:'''

*Read this wiki - review the scope of work and information about the Content Teams, to get started
*Check out our public page: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/content.html
*Join our meetings (details below)
*Sign up to do one of our [[NDSA:Member Presentations]]
*Offer to help take meeting minutes (truly appreciated!)
*Join one of our [[NDSA:content teams]]
*Help with small or large tasks to accomplish Content Team goals
*Chat with your fellow members via the listserv - ask questions, tell us about your projects, introduce yourself!
*Have an idea for a project or activity? Action teams may also be formed outside of (or within) the Content Teams, to perform specific tasks or accomplish goals. Start one up!
*Get your co-workers involved - if there are others in your organization that you'd like to get more involved, contact Abbie to get them signed up.

And finally,
*Don't be afraid to change Working Groups. If Content isn't a good fit, and you're more interested in [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group|Infrastructure]], [[NDSA:Innovation Working Group|Innovation]], [[NDSA:Outreach Working Group|Outreach]], or [[NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group|Standards]] after all, our feelings won't be hurt. We realize that as the work evolves, new members may find themselves in the "wrong" group. Contact your co-chairs if you have questions about switching working groups.

== Scope of Work ==

The Content Working Group is developing case studies and models to share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities. The case studies will be shared with all stakeholders, from content producers to cultural heritage organizations, with goals of:

*engaging all members of the community in the preservation of content,

*encouraging the cultivation of relationships that could enable preservation, and,

*in conjunction with other working groups in the NDSA, identifying actionable next steps to ensure important content is preserved.

An earlier version of our [[NDSA:scope of work]] is available here.

===Current Activities and Initiatives===
==== 2015 Planning ====
Presentation topics and project ideas
*Working with Content Creators
**Refer to CWG [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 9/3/14]] and [[NDSA:Meeting minutes 10/1/14]]
*[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/documents/2015NationalAgenda.pdf 2015 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship] (taken from "Actionable Recommendations")
**Section 2.1 Overarching Issues with Digital Content
***Develop content scans in each area of interest to the community that identify important collections and the efforts to ensure durable access to them
***Continue to build systematic longitudinal evidence on the practice and context of preservation
***Extend systematic surveys and scans on organizational capacity and preservation storage practices to guide selection
**Section 2.2.2 Connection to Creator Community
***Support the ongoing evaluation of digital collections and their impacts
****'''Project idea: 2015 Web Archiving Survey?''' (following on 2011 and 2013 surveys)
***Communicate and coordinate collection priority statements at national, regional, and institutional levels
****'''Project idea: Create template? Develop survey? How might the CWG support this?'''
***Explore privacy issues in born-digital collecting
****'''Suggested Speaker: Jean E. Dryden, who teaches Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) course on this topic'''
***Develop further understanding and proficiency in the tools researchers want to interact with digital collections
***Connect with the communities across commercial, nonprofit, private, and public sectors that create digital content to leverage their incentives to preserve
****'''Suggested Speaker: More from [http://rjionline.org/events/memoryhole Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Born-digital News Content] and [http://educopia.org/events/dmh Dodging the Memory Hole II: An Action Assembly]'''
**Section 2.3 Content-Specific Challenges
***2.3.1 Scientific Data Sets
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****'''Virginia Commonwealth University data manager'''
*****'''GIS data'''
*****'''Workflows for ongoing collection of scientific data and software/code to preserve in institutional repositories'''

***2.3.2 Web and Social Media
****CWG Project Ideas
*****'''Guidance for web site creators''' (a one-page guidance document for creators is in the works)
*****'''Content Case study on web archiving rapidly changing events'''
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****'''Martin Klein, UCLA, on collecting social media around the Arab Spring, including from researchers who captured content'''
*****'''Ben Welsh on extending the functionality of Story Tracker (looking for input from web archive community)'''
*****'''[http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/ Memento project]'''

***2.3.3 Software Preservation
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****'''Speaker from Society of American Archivists 2014 session on [http://archives2014.sched.org/event/574e45dcc74762fc7e6c6e6d871d2ef3#.VQAmM1X3-iw software preservation networks]'''
*****'''Matthew Kirschenbaum, MITH (on new Track Changes book?)'''
*****'''Review [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/preservingsoftware2013.html Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software]

***2.3.4 Moving Image and Recorded Sound
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****
***2.3.5 Electronic Records (of businesses, organizations, and government)
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Planned Speakers, April 1, 2015
*****'''Glen McAninch, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives'''
*****'''Kevin De Vorsey, National Archives and Records Administration'''

*[[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]
**support collaborative web archiving projects
**policy development for archiving social media

*[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]

*Other suggestions/ideas
**'''"Older-data-rescue" outreach'''
**'''Furthering work to understand stakeholders (creative and visual artists mentioned specifically)'''
**'''Cross Content Team projects related to born-digital news preservation'''

*Content Interview Series
**See previous posts at http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/category/content-matters-interview/

*Other suggestions/ideas
**'''Continue/Restart member presentations'''

==== Content Teams ====

Content Working Group [[NDSA:content teams]] have been formed around various content areas to better organize our large working group. By motivating smaller teams to work together on projects of interest to them, we hope to accomplish more and raise awareness about the risk and value of digital content. Ideally everyone in the content WG will sign up for at least one that fits their organizations content area of interest. Read more [[NDSA:About the Content Teams]] here.

NOTE: The content teams have their own meeting schedules; please contact the facilitators for each group to learn more about meeting times.

*[[NDSA:Big Picture Group]]
*[[NDSA:Government Content Team]]
*[[NDSA:Geospatial]]
*[[NDSA:News, Media, and Journalism]]
*[[NDSA:Science, Mathematics, Technology and Medicine]]
*[[NDSA:Social Sciences]]
*[[NDSA:Cultural Heritage]] -- as of June 2013, merged [[NDSA:Arts & Humanities]] with this group.

====[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]====

The Content Teams of the Content Working Group will develop case studies around a variety of types of content to share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.

'''Quick links to Case Studies in Development'''

*[[NDSA:Community and Hyperlocal News]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_CommunityNews.pdf
*[[NDSA:Citizen Journalism]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_CitizenJournalism.pdf
*[[NDSA:Digital E-Prints of Newspapers]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_NewspaperEPrints.pdf
*Science, Medicine, Math, and Technology Blogs [[NDSA:Draft Case Study]]
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/ScienceBlogs_CaseStudy_public_v2.pdf
*[[NDSA:Science Forums Case Study]]
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/ScienceForums_CaseStudy_public_v2.pdf

Others in progress: The Government team is working on a case study on land records, including Maryland land records and geospacial records, with a focus on issues of cooperation between local and state people and groups. Anne Harrison from FEDLINK is also working on a case study on trying to preserve history of legislation: hearings, publications, etc. A description of this content and needs will be drafted in case study format.

====Content Interview Series====
Working Groups members are interviewing and being interviewed for the Signal Blog [[NDSA:Content Interview Series]]. If you are interested in participating, contact Abbie abgr@loc.gov.

====Member Presentations====
We want to learn more about you! Sign up on our [[NDSA:Member Presentations]] page to present about your organization, what content you are preserving, and your challenges and success stories.

====2013 [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]====
A survey of Web Archiving organizations in the U.S. was open through November 30, 2013 and analysis is now under way. More information is at [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]].

===Prior Activities===
For more information about prior activities undertaken by the CWG, visit our [[NDSA:Prior Activities]] page.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==

'''See our new CWG [[NDSA:Calendar]]! Add upcoming events or sign up to give one of our brief [[NDSA:Member Presentations]].'''

[[NDSA:Prior CWG Meetings]] (2010-2013)

==Practices==

The group will work and collaborate using the following tools and mechanisms:
*Listserv: contact ndsa@loc.gov to be added or removed.
*Regular conference calls: see meetings section above.
*Annual conference
*Wiki: you're here!

NDSA:Content Working Group

2015-09-21T12:54:49Z

Moffattc: /* How to Get Involved */

== Statement of Purpose ==

The Content [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] will focus on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with NDSA partners who will acquire the content, preserve it, and provide access to it.

== Members ==
To see a list of current members, please send a "REVIEW NDSA-CONTENT" command LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV . This returns the e-mail address and name of all the subscribers to our list (aka members). Contact Abbie if you have questions about this.

== How to Get Involved ==
Contact [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group_Co-Chairs|co-chairs]] Christie Moffatt (moffattc@mail.nlm.nih.gov) and Abbey Potter (abpo@loc.gov) to join the working group or to learn more about how to get involved.

'''A few ways to learn more and get involved:'''

*Read this wiki - review the scope of work and information about the Content Teams, to get started
*Check out our public page: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/content.html
*Join our meetings (details below)
*Sign up to do one of our [[NDSA:Member Presentations]]
*Offer to help take meeting minutes (truly appreciated!)
*Join one of our [[NDSA:content teams]]
*Help with small or large tasks to accomplish Content Team goals
*Chat with your fellow members via the listserv - ask questions, tell us about your projects, introduce yourself!
*Have an idea for a project or activity? Action teams may also be formed outside of (or within) the Content Teams, to perform specific tasks or accomplish goals. Start one up!
*Get your co-workers involved - if there are others in your organization that you'd like to get more involved, contact Abbie to get them signed up.

And finally,
*Don't be afraid to change Working Groups. If Content isn't a good fit, and you're more interested in [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group|Infrastructure]], [[NDSA:Innovation Working Group|Innovation]], [[NDSA:Outreach Working Group|Outreach]], or [[NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group|Standards]] after all, our feelings won't be hurt. We realize that as the work evolves, new members may find themselves in the "wrong" group. Contact your co-chairs if you have questions about switching working groups.

== Scope of Work ==

The Content Working Group is developing case studies and models to share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities. The case studies will be shared with all stakeholders, from content producers to cultural heritage organizations, with goals of:

*engaging all members of the community in the preservation of content,

*encouraging the cultivation of relationships that could enable preservation, and,

*in conjunction with other working groups in the NDSA, identifying actionable next steps to ensure important content is preserved.

An earlier version of our [[NDSA:scope of work]] is available here.

===Current Activities and Initiatives===
==== 2015 Planning ====
Presentation topics and project ideas
*Working with Content Creators
**Refer to CWG [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 9/3/14]] and [[NDSA:Meeting minutes 10/1/14]]
*[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/documents/2015NationalAgenda.pdf 2015 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship] (taken from "Actionable Recommendations")
**Section 2.1 Overarching Issues with Digital Content
***Develop content scans in each area of interest to the community that identify important collections and the efforts to ensure durable access to them
***Continue to build systematic longitudinal evidence on the practice and context of preservation
***Extend systematic surveys and scans on organizational capacity and preservation storage practices to guide selection
**Section 2.2.2 Connection to Creator Community
***Support the ongoing evaluation of digital collections and their impacts
****'''Project idea: 2015 Web Archiving Survey?''' (following on 2011 and 2013 surveys)
***Communicate and coordinate collection priority statements at national, regional, and institutional levels
****'''Project idea: Create template? Develop survey? How might the CWG support this?'''
***Explore privacy issues in born-digital collecting
****'''Suggested Speaker: Jean E. Dryden, who teaches Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) course on this topic'''
***Develop further understanding and proficiency in the tools researchers want to interact with digital collections
***Connect with the communities across commercial, nonprofit, private, and public sectors that create digital content to leverage their incentives to preserve
****'''Suggested Speaker: More from [http://rjionline.org/events/memoryhole Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Born-digital News Content] and [http://educopia.org/events/dmh Dodging the Memory Hole II: An Action Assembly]'''
**Section 2.3 Content-Specific Challenges
***2.3.1 Scientific Data Sets
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****'''Virginia Commonwealth University data manager'''
*****'''GIS data'''
*****'''Workflows for ongoing collection of scientific data and software/code to preserve in institutional repositories'''

***2.3.2 Web and Social Media
****CWG Project Ideas
*****'''Guidance for web site creators''' (a one-page guidance document for creators is in the works)
*****'''Content Case study on web archiving rapidly changing events'''
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****'''Martin Klein, UCLA, on collecting social media around the Arab Spring, including from researchers who captured content'''
*****'''Ben Welsh on extending the functionality of Story Tracker (looking for input from web archive community)'''
*****'''[http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/ Memento project]'''

***2.3.3 Software Preservation
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****'''Speaker from Society of American Archivists 2014 session on [http://archives2014.sched.org/event/574e45dcc74762fc7e6c6e6d871d2ef3#.VQAmM1X3-iw software preservation networks]'''
*****'''Matthew Kirschenbaum, MITH (on new Track Changes book?)'''
*****'''Review [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/preservingsoftware2013.html Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software]

***2.3.4 Moving Image and Recorded Sound
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****
***2.3.5 Electronic Records (of businesses, organizations, and government)
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Planned Speakers, April 1, 2015
*****'''Glen McAninch, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives'''
*****'''Kevin De Vorsey, National Archives and Records Administration'''

*[[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]
**support collaborative web archiving projects
**policy development for archiving social media

*[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]

*Other suggestions/ideas
**'''"Older-data-rescue" outreach'''
**'''Furthering work to understand stakeholders (creative and visual artists mentioned specifically)'''
**'''Cross Content Team projects related to born-digital news preservation'''

*Content Interview Series
**See previous posts at http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/category/content-matters-interview/

*Other suggestions/ideas
**'''Continue/Restart member presentations'''

==== Content Teams ====

Content Working Group [[NDSA:content teams]] have been formed around various content areas to better organize our large working group. By motivating smaller teams to work together on projects of interest to them, we hope to accomplish more and raise awareness about the risk and value of digital content. Ideally everyone in the content WG will sign up for at least one that fits their organizations content area of interest. Read more [[NDSA:About the Content Teams]] here.

NOTE: The content teams have their own meeting schedules; please contact the facilitators for each group to learn more about meeting times.

*[[NDSA:Big Picture Group]]
*[[NDSA:Government Content Team]]
*[[NDSA:Geospatial]]
*[[NDSA:News, Media, and Journalism]]
*[[NDSA:Science, Mathematics, Technology and Medicine]]
*[[NDSA:Social Sciences]]
*[[NDSA:Cultural Heritage]] -- as of June 2013, merged [[NDSA:Arts & Humanities]] with this group.

====[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]====

The Content Teams of the Content Working Group will develop case studies around a variety of types of content to share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.

'''Quick links to Case Studies in Development'''

*[[NDSA:Community and Hyperlocal News]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_CommunityNews.pdf
*[[NDSA:Citizen Journalism]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_CitizenJournalism.pdf
*[[NDSA:Digital E-Prints of Newspapers]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_NewspaperEPrints.pdf
*Science, Medicine, Math, and Technology Blogs [[NDSA:Draft Case Study]]
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/ScienceBlogs_CaseStudy_public_v2.pdf
*[[NDSA:Draft Science Forums Case Study]]
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/ScienceForums_CaseStudy_public_v2.pdf

Others in progress: The Government team is working on a case study on land records, including Maryland land records and geospacial records, with a focus on issues of cooperation between local and state people and groups. Anne Harrison from FEDLINK is also working on a case study on trying to preserve history of legislation: hearings, publications, etc. A description of this content and needs will be drafted in case study format.

====Content Interview Series====
Working Groups members are interviewing and being interviewed for the Signal Blog [[NDSA:Content Interview Series]]. If you are interested in participating, contact Abbie abgr@loc.gov.

====Member Presentations====
We want to learn more about you! Sign up on our [[NDSA:Member Presentations]] page to present about your organization, what content you are preserving, and your challenges and success stories.

====2013 [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]====
A survey of Web Archiving organizations in the U.S. was open through November 30, 2013 and analysis is now under way. More information is at [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]].

===Prior Activities===
For more information about prior activities undertaken by the CWG, visit our [[NDSA:Prior Activities]] page.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==

'''See our new CWG [[NDSA:Calendar]]! Add upcoming events or sign up to give one of our brief [[NDSA:Member Presentations]].'''

[[NDSA:Prior CWG Meetings]] (2010-2013)

==Practices==

The group will work and collaborate using the following tools and mechanisms:
*Listserv: contact ndsa@loc.gov to be added or removed.
*Regular conference calls: see meetings section above.
*Annual conference
*Wiki: you're here!

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'''Content Working Group Calendar'''

Members: feel free to edit this calendar directly to add Content Team meetings, In-person CWG meetings tied in with conferences, or other events. Trouble with wiki editing? Contact Abbie (abgr@loc.gov) if you need help.

We are now signing up members to give brief presentations at our all-hands meetings. Please sign up for any future open slot by clicking "edit" next to the month you'd like to sign up for, and replacing "open" text with your name and institution. See [[NDSA:Member Presentations]] for more information.

= 2013 =

== August 2013 ==

*8/11-17: SAA

*Tuesday 8/20, 3pm ET: Call to discuss Web Archiving Survey planning/questions. Minutes here: [[NDSA:August 21, 2013 Meeting Minutes]]

*8/28 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET: Member Presentations/Discussion. Minutes here: [[NDSA:Content WG August 28, 2013 Meeting Minutes]]
**Margie Maes, LIPA : [[File:NDSA lightning talk Maes LIPA.pdf]]

== September 2013 ==

No meetings scheduled.

== October 2013 ==

*10/2 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. *Agenda: Misc topics: general updates from Content teams, review of web archiving survey, misc. CANCELLED DUE TO SHUTDOWN
*Week of October 21: Web Archiving Survey launch/announcement

== November 2013 ==

*11/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. [[NDSA:CWG Meeting Minutes November 6, 2013]] (includes presentations)
**Rachel Wise (Harvard Business School)
**Rachel Howard (University of Louisville)
**Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
*11/13-15: Best Practices Exchange/Archive-IT partner meeting
*11/30 Web archiving survey closes

== December 2013 ==

*12/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Presenters:
**'''Theme: National Agenda topic: Web and Social Media''' (Kris Carpenter/IA and Abbie Grotke/LC) [[NDSA:12/3/13 Meeting Minutes]] (includes links to presentation slides)

*12/9-12/10: CNI in D.C.

= 2014 =

== January 2014 ==

*1/8: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Electronic Records - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:Jan 8 2014 Minutes]]

Speakers:
*Erik Rau, Hagley (Business Records)
*Sarah Koonts, State Archivist for North Carolina (COSA's SERI)
*Glen McAninch, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (State Records)
*Bob Spangler, NARA (Federal Records)

== February 2014 ==

*2/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion/Updates on CWG business. Presenters:
**Barbara Haws and Mitch Brodsky, New York Philharmonic [[NDSA:CWG February 5 Meeting Minutes]]

== March 2014 ==

*3/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Moving Image and Sound - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 3/5/14]]
**John Spencer, BMS/Chase
**Karen Cariani, WGBH
**Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
**Kat Bell, Dance Heritage Coalition

*3/7-16: SXSW

== April 2014 ==

*4/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''CANCELLED'''

== May 2014 ==

*5/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. [[NDSA:May 7 Minutes]]

Presenters:
Maureen Harlow: National Digital Stewardship Residency at NLM and Nicholas Taylor, Stanford University

== June 2014 ==

*6/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Research Data - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:June 4 Meeting Minutes]]

== July 2014 ==

*7/2: CWG All-hands meeting '''canceled.'''

*7/21 3:30-5pm ET (face-to-face meeting at Library of Congress, Room LM 139) [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes July 21, 2014]]

== August 2014 ==

*8/29: Brainstorming monthly meeting topics [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 8/29/14]]

== September 2014 ==

*9/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 9/3/14]]

== October 2014 ==

*10/1: CWG All-hands meeting. [[NDSA:Meeting minutes 10/1/14]]

== November 2014 ==

*11/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

== December 2014 ==

*12/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p82pmstsurk/

Edward McCain joined us to talk about the recent event held at RJI, Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Born Digital News Content (http://www.rjionline.org/events/memoryhole).

We also had a presentation from Ben Welsh, who is a database producer at the Los Angeles Times and the creator of PastPages, an archive dedicated to the preservation of online news. Ben attended the RJI event and presented about StoryTracker, and will reprise his presentation for our meeting. StoryTracker is a new set of open source tools aimed at analyzing the stories that appear on news homepages. In this brief talk, Ben will show its key features and demonstrate how it could be useful in other efforts to save and scrutinize the Web.

= 2015 =

== January 2015 ==

*1/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

== February 2015 ==

*2/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting is here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p28iezwy6u9/

Focus of meeting was sharing ideas for projects and speakers for 2015. Looked at NDSA National Agenda recommended actions, Web Archiving Survey, and notes from previous brainstorming sessions.

== March 2015 ==

*3/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p998z07jksc/

Passcode: March2015CWG

== April 2015 ==

*4/1: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Theme: Managing Electronic Records (focusing on working with creators) - 2015 National Agenda Content Area

Glen McAninch, University of Kentucky shared the challenges of records retention for websites, working with creators to produce preservation ready formats, metadata

Kevin De Vorsey, NARA shared challenges of providing transfer guidance to 250 federal agencies, flexible time frames for transferring content to NARA, preparing meaningful guidelines for records created now and records that will be handed over many years from now, transfer guidance for records officers that IT can work with, metadata requirements.

== May 2015 ==

*5/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. [[NDSA:Meeting Notes]]

Agenda:
*Member presentation from the Dance Heritage Coalition
*iPRES November 2-6 in Chapel Hill, NC (possible contributions from NDSA members)
*NDSA transition
*Member news

== June 2015 ==

*6/3: CWG All-hands meeting,

Agenda

*Presentation from Vangelis Banos, the creator of the ArchiveReady tool for evaluating website archivability. ArchiveReady makes calculations based on 4 factors: accessibility, cohesion, metadata, and standards compliance. Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/vbanos1/website-archivability-library-of-congress-ndiipp-presentation-20150603.
*Proposals for iPRES 2015 conference, Chapel Hill, NC, November 2-6
*Planning for Web Archiving Survey 2015
*Member announcements/news

== July 2015 ==

*7/1: No meeting

== August 2015 ==

*8/5: No meeting

== September 2015 ==

*9/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Agenda:

*iPres meeting panel, reception (see also http://ipres2015.org/)

*2015 NDSA Web Archiving Survey update

*NDSA transition September 30

== October 2015 ==

*10/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.
Member presentation: Edward McCain on Knight Prototype Fund

== November 2015 ==

*11/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

== December 2015 ==

*12/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

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'''Content Working Group Calendar'''

Members: feel free to edit this calendar directly to add Content Team meetings, In-person CWG meetings tied in with conferences, or other events. Trouble with wiki editing? Contact Abbie (abgr@loc.gov) if you need help.

We are now signing up members to give brief presentations at our all-hands meetings. Please sign up for any future open slot by clicking "edit" next to the month you'd like to sign up for, and replacing "open" text with your name and institution. See [[NDSA:Member Presentations]] for more information.

= 2013 =

== August 2013 ==

*8/11-17: SAA

*Tuesday 8/20, 3pm ET: Call to discuss Web Archiving Survey planning/questions. Minutes here: [[NDSA:August 21, 2013 Meeting Minutes]]

*8/28 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET: Member Presentations/Discussion. Minutes here: [[NDSA:Content WG August 28, 2013 Meeting Minutes]]
**Margie Maes, LIPA : [[File:NDSA lightning talk Maes LIPA.pdf]]

== September 2013 ==

No meetings scheduled.

== October 2013 ==

*10/2 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. *Agenda: Misc topics: general updates from Content teams, review of web archiving survey, misc. CANCELLED DUE TO SHUTDOWN
*Week of October 21: Web Archiving Survey launch/announcement

== November 2013 ==

*11/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. [[NDSA:CWG Meeting Minutes November 6, 2013]] (includes presentations)
**Rachel Wise (Harvard Business School)
**Rachel Howard (University of Louisville)
**Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
*11/13-15: Best Practices Exchange/Archive-IT partner meeting
*11/30 Web archiving survey closes

== December 2013 ==

*12/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Presenters:
**'''Theme: National Agenda topic: Web and Social Media''' (Kris Carpenter/IA and Abbie Grotke/LC) [[NDSA:12/3/13 Meeting Minutes]] (includes links to presentation slides)

*12/9-12/10: CNI in D.C.

= 2014 =

== January 2014 ==

*1/8: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Electronic Records - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:Jan 8 2014 Minutes]]

Speakers:
*Erik Rau, Hagley (Business Records)
*Sarah Koonts, State Archivist for North Carolina (COSA's SERI)
*Glen McAninch, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (State Records)
*Bob Spangler, NARA (Federal Records)

== February 2014 ==

*2/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion/Updates on CWG business. Presenters:
**Barbara Haws and Mitch Brodsky, New York Philharmonic [[NDSA:CWG February 5 Meeting Minutes]]

== March 2014 ==

*3/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Moving Image and Sound - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 3/5/14]]
**John Spencer, BMS/Chase
**Karen Cariani, WGBH
**Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
**Kat Bell, Dance Heritage Coalition

*3/7-16: SXSW

== April 2014 ==

*4/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''CANCELLED'''

== May 2014 ==

*5/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. [[NDSA:May 7 Minutes]]

Presenters:
Maureen Harlow: National Digital Stewardship Residency at NLM and Nicholas Taylor, Stanford University

== June 2014 ==

*6/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. '''Theme: Research Data - National Agenda Content Area''' [[NDSA:June 4 Meeting Minutes]]

== July 2014 ==

*7/2: CWG All-hands meeting '''canceled.'''

*7/21 3:30-5pm ET (face-to-face meeting at Library of Congress, Room LM 139) [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes July 21, 2014]]

== August 2014 ==

*8/29: Brainstorming monthly meeting topics [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 8/29/14]]

== September 2014 ==

*9/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 9/3/14]]

== October 2014 ==

*10/1: CWG All-hands meeting. [[NDSA:Meeting minutes 10/1/14]]

== November 2014 ==

*11/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

== December 2014 ==

*12/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p82pmstsurk/

Edward McCain joined us to talk about the recent event held at RJI, Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Born Digital News Content (http://www.rjionline.org/events/memoryhole).

We also had a presentation from Ben Welsh, who is a database producer at the Los Angeles Times and the creator of PastPages, an archive dedicated to the preservation of online news. Ben attended the RJI event and presented about StoryTracker, and will reprise his presentation for our meeting. StoryTracker is a new set of open source tools aimed at analyzing the stories that appear on news homepages. In this brief talk, Ben will show its key features and demonstrate how it could be useful in other efforts to save and scrutinize the Web.

= 2015 =

== January 2015 ==

*1/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

== February 2015 ==

*2/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting is here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p28iezwy6u9/

Focus of meeting was sharing ideas for projects and speakers for 2015. Looked at NDSA National Agenda recommended actions, Web Archiving Survey, and notes from previous brainstorming sessions.

== March 2015 ==

*3/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p998z07jksc/

Passcode: March2015CWG

== April 2015 ==

*4/1: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Theme: Managing Electronic Records (focusing on working with creators) - 2015 National Agenda Content Area

Glen McAninch, University of Kentucky shared the challenges of records retention for websites, working with creators to produce preservation ready formats, metadata

Kevin De Vorsey, NARA shared challenges of providing transfer guidance to 250 federal agencies, flexible time frames for transferring content to NARA, preparing meaningful guidelines for records created now and records that will be handed over many years from now, transfer guidance for records officers that IT can work with, metadata requirements.

== May 2015 ==

*5/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. [[NDSA:Meeting Notes]]

Agenda:
*Member presentation from the Dance Heritage Coalition
*iPRES November 2-6 in Chapel Hill, NC (possible contributions from NDSA members)
*NDSA transition
*Member news

== June 2015 ==

*6/3: CWG All-hands meeting,

Agenda

*Presentation from Vangelis Banos, the creator of the ArchiveReady tool for evaluating website archivability. ArchiveReady makes calculations based on 4 factors: accessibility, cohesion, metadata, and standards compliance. Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/vbanos1/website-archivability-library-of-congress-ndiipp-presentation-20150603.
*Proposals for iPRES 2015 conference, Chapel Hill, NC, November 2-6
*Planning for Web Archiving Survey 2015
*Member announcements/news

== July 2015 ==

*7/1: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

== August 2015 ==

*8/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

== September 2015 ==

*9/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

== October 2015 ==

*10/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.
Member presentation: Edward McCain on Knight Prototype Fund

== November 2015 ==

*11/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

== December 2015 ==

*12/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

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NDSA Meeting May 6, 2015

Attendees:
*Maureen Harlow
*Edward McCain
*Gail McMillan
*Christie Moffatt
*Abbey Potter
*Abby Smith Rumsey
*Imogen Smith
*Lauren Work

iPRES conference (Nov. 2-6, Chapel Hill, NC) panel proposals due May 15

Ideas for proposals:
*Ed McCain suggested a panel on born-digital news preservation
*also a suggestion for a panel on work with content creators
*Gail would like to help but not attending iPRES
*email will be sent to CWG listserv to solicit additional ideas and participants

NDSA transition
*RFP issued May 1-June 30, 2015 for a planned transition to a new host by September 30, 2015.
*working groups will continue through transition
*members encouraged to share comments, concerns, suggestions for hosts, and questions
*A question was asked about any proposals received. As of May 6, only inquiries have been made.

Member news
*LC released new access interface to web archive collections
*Ed McCain shared information about a research project to assess the value/utility of born-digital news. Campus focus groups (at the University of Missouri) will followed by a survey. Ed will share updates at a later meeting.

Member presentation: Imogen Smith, Dance Heritage Coalition
*Recently received a Knight Foundation Prototype Fund Grant
*goal to provide links between born-digital performance media and related writings
*beginning with in-person outreach to producers and users of the resources
*locating and ingesting content; some content is feely available online and some are not
*diverse array of content and formats
*6 months to see what can be produced
*looking for feedback!
**Abbey Potter suggested webrecorder.io (https://webrecorder.io/) might be a useful tool to explore

Next CWG meeting will be Wednesday, June 3 at 11 a.m. EST

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== Statement of Purpose ==

The Content [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group|Working Group]] will focus on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with NDSA partners who will acquire the content, preserve it, and provide access to it.

== Members ==
To see a list of current members, please send a "REVIEW NDSA-CONTENT" command LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV . This returns the e-mail address and name of all the subscribers to our list (aka members). Contact Abbie if you have questions about this.

== How to Get Involved ==
Contact [[NDSA:Terms#Working_Group_Co-Chairs|co-chairs]] Christie Moffatt (moffattc@mail.nlm.nih.gov) and Abbie Grotke (abgr@loc.gov) to join the working group or to learn more about how to get involved.

'''A few ways to learn more and get involved:'''

*Read this wiki - review the scope of work and information about the Content Teams, to get started
*Check out our public page: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/content.html
*Join our meetings (details below)
*Sign up to do one of our [[NDSA:Member Presentations]]
*Offer to help take meeting minutes (truly appreciated!)
*Join one of our [[NDSA:content teams]]
*Help with small or large tasks to accomplish Content Team goals
*Chat with your fellow members via the listserv - ask questions, tell us about your projects, introduce yourself!
*Have an idea for a project or activity? Action teams may also be formed outside of (or within) the Content Teams, to perform specific tasks or accomplish goals. Start one up!
*Get your co-workers involved - if there are others in your organization that you'd like to get more involved, contact Abbie to get them signed up.

And finally,
*Don't be afraid to change Working Groups. If Content isn't a good fit, and you're more interested in [[NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group|Infrastructure]], [[NDSA:Innovation Working Group|Innovation]], [[NDSA:Outreach Working Group|Outreach]], or [[NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group|Standards]] after all, our feelings won't be hurt. We realize that as the work evolves, new members may find themselves in the "wrong" group. Contact your co-chairs if you have questions about switching working groups.

== Scope of Work ==

The Content Working Group is developing case studies and models to share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities. The case studies will be shared with all stakeholders, from content producers to cultural heritage organizations, with goals of:

*engaging all members of the community in the preservation of content,

*encouraging the cultivation of relationships that could enable preservation, and,

*in conjunction with other working groups in the NDSA, identifying actionable next steps to ensure important content is preserved.

An earlier version of our [[NDSA:scope of work]] is available here.

===Current Activities and Initiatives===
==== 2015 Planning ====
Presentation topics and project ideas
*Working with Content Creators
**Refer to CWG [[NDSA:Meeting Minutes 9/3/14]] and [[NDSA:Meeting minutes 10/1/14]]
*National Agenda for Digital Stewardship (taken from "Actionable Recommendations")
**Section 2.1 Overarching Issues with Digital Content
***Develop content scans in each area of interest to the community that identify important collections and the efforts to ensure durable access to them
***Continue to build systematic longitudinal evidence on the practice and context of preservation
***Extend systematic surveys and scans on organizational capacity and preservation storage practices to guide selection
**Section 2.2.2 Connection to Creator Community
***Support the ongoing evaluation of digital collections and their impacts
***Communicate and coordinate collection priority statements at national, regional, and institutional levels
****'''Project idea: Create template? Develop survey? How might the CWG support this?'''
***Explore privacy issues in born-digital collecting
****'''Suggested Speaker: Jean E. Dryden, who teaches Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) course on this topic'''
***Develop further understanding and proficiency in the tools researchers want to interact with digital collections
***Connect with the communities across commercial, nonprofit, private, and public sectors that create digital content to leverage their incentives to preserve
****'''Continue focus on born-digital news'''
**Section 2.3 Content-Specific Challenges
***2.3.1 Scientific Data Sets
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****
***2.3.2 Web and Social Media
****CWG Project Ideas
*****'''Guidance for web site creators (group to meet soon to begin work on a one-page guidance document)'''
*****'''Content Case study on web archiving rapidly changing events'''
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****
***2.3.3 Software Preservation
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****
***2.3.4 Moving Image and Recorded Sound
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****
***2.3.5 Electronic Records (of businesses, organizations, and government)
****CWG Project Ideas
*****
****Suggested Speakers/Topics for Presentations
*****'''Glen McAninch, University of Kentucky (before May 1)'''
*****'''National Archives and Records Administration on relations with records creators'''

*[[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]
**support collaborative web archiving projects
**policy development for archiving social media

*[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]

*Other suggestions/ideas
**'''"Older-data-rescue" outreach'''
**'''Furthering work to understand stakeholders (creative and visual artists mentioned specifically)'''
**'''Cross Content Team projects related to born-digital news preservation'''

*Content Interview Series
**See previous posts at http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/category/content-matters-interview/

*Other suggestions/ideas
**'''Continue/Restart member presentations'''

==== Content Teams ====

Content Working Group [[NDSA:content teams]] have been formed around various content areas to better organize our large working group. By motivating smaller teams to work together on projects of interest to them, we hope to accomplish more and raise awareness about the risk and value of digital content. Ideally everyone in the content WG will sign up for at least one that fits their organizations content area of interest. Read more [[NDSA:About the Content Teams]] here.

NOTE: The content teams have their own meeting schedules; please contact the facilitators for each group to learn more about meeting times.

*[[NDSA:Big Picture Group]]
*[[NDSA:Government Content Team]]
*[[NDSA:Geospatial]]
*[[NDSA:News, Media, and Journalism]]
*[[NDSA:Science, Mathematics, Technology and Medicine]]
*[[NDSA:Social Sciences]]
*[[NDSA:Cultural Heritage]] -- as of June 2013, merged [[NDSA:Arts & Humanities]] with this group.

====[[NDSA:Content Case Studies]]====

The Content Teams of the Content Working Group will develop case studies around a variety of types of content to share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.

'''Quick links to Case Studies in Development'''

*[[NDSA:Community and Hyperlocal News]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_CommunityNews.pdf
*[[NDSA:Citizen Journalism]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_CitizenJournalism.pdf
*[[NDSA:Digital E-Prints of Newspapers]](draft)
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_CaseStudy_NewspaperEPrints.pdf
*Science, Medicine, Math, and Technology Blogs [[NDSA:Draft Case Study]]
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/ScienceBlogs_CaseStudy_public_v2.pdf
*[[NDSA:Draft Science Forums Case Study]]
**FINAL VERSION: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/ScienceForums_CaseStudy_public_v2.pdf

Others in progress: The Government team is working on a case study on land records, including Maryland land records and geospacial records, with a focus on issues of cooperation between local and state people and groups. Anne Harrison from FEDLINK is also working on a case study on trying to preserve history of legislation: hearings, publications, etc. A description of this content and needs will be drafted in case study format.

====Content Interview Series====
Working Groups members are interviewing and being interviewed for the Signal Blog [[NDSA:Content Interview Series]]. If you are interested in participating, contact Abbie abgr@loc.gov.

====Member Presentations====
We want to learn more about you! Sign up on our [[NDSA:Member Presentations]] page to present about your organization, what content you are preserving, and your challenges and success stories.

====2013 [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]]====
A survey of Web Archiving organizations in the U.S. was open through November 30, 2013 and analysis is now under way. More information is at [[NDSA:Web Archiving Survey]].

===Prior Activities===
For more information about prior activities undertaken by the CWG, visit our [[NDSA:Prior Activities]] page.

== Meeting Schedule and Minutes ==

'''See our new CWG [[NDSA:Calendar]]! Add upcoming events or sign up to give one of our brief [[NDSA:Member Presentations]].'''

[[NDSA:Prior CWG Meetings]] (2010-2013)

==Practices==

The group will work and collaborate using the following tools and mechanisms:
*Listserv: contact Abbie or ndsa@loc.gov to be added or removed.
*Regular conference calls: see meetings section above.
*Annual conference
*Wiki: you're here!