View source for NDSA:Meeting Minutes 12-16-11

NDSA Innovation Working Group Planning Call: December 16th, 3:00pm, 2011

==In attendance==
*Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress 
*Barbara Taranto, New York Public Library
*Gary Wright, Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*Micah Altman, Harvard University
*Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
*Jefferson Bailey, Library of Congress

==Overview==
The call updated the group on the status of our interview series on the NDIIPP digital preservation blog (The Signal), noting forthcoming interviews and soliciting more ideas for potential interview candidates. We also reviewed our committed "mentors" to participate in Google's "Summer of Code" project and discussed more ideas for partnerships. As well, we updated team-members on Innovation Recognition Awards team happenings and discussed further feedback on award ideas. Lastly, we discussed the Innovation WG's presence at the CNI conference.

==Action Items==
Interviews:
*Barbara has completed her interview with Beverly Emmons and will send the text (and picture of Beverly) to LC after the holidays
*Jefferson will conduct scheduled interview with Michael Olson at Stanford
*Jefferson will send Gary interview notes, details, and sample questions for his future interview with Tom Creighton from Family Search
Summer of Code:
*CHNM has agreed to be a mentor and LC will coordinate with them on the details
*Micah Altman will continue to pin down the details on Harvard's participation and coordinate with UNC & the Data-PASS SafeArchive folks
*Trevor/LC will talk to Duraspace about potentially participating or coordinating on proposals to ensure no overlap if they have their own non-NDSA project in place
Awards:
*Jefferson will send the current list of potential awards to the listserv for final commentary before the awards team's call on 12/21

*January call Doodle poll will go out after the holidays and the next call will be the week of January 16th or 23rd.


==Agenda Notes==

==Interviews==

*Barbara Taranto has completed her interview and will send it, and a picture, to LC after the holidays 
*Jefferson will interview Michael Olson at Stanford about their digital forensics lab 
*Gary Wright will interview Tom Creighton at Family Search after receiving questions and guidance from LC

==Awards Action Team==

*Call to choose awards is scheduled for 12/21; email soliciting final comments on potential awards will be sent to listserv 12/19
*Team will have communications, promotion, and nomination plan in place by mid-January
*Awards will be announced at the end of January, winner selected in May, and awarded at July partners meeting

==Summer of Code==
*CHNM has agreed to mentor someone. LC will coordinate with them on the details
*Harvard is still willing to participate but needs to pin down the details
*UNC can supply a mentor in conjunction with the Data-PASS SafeArchive project (Jonathan Crabtree). Micah will follow-up with them.
*Duraspace plans to participate, but will likely do so on their own. Either way, LC will coordinate with them either to do a project or to get pointers on proposals

==Other==

*The next group call will be either the week of January 16th or January 23. A Doodle poll will go out after the new year.