View source for NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 03-03-14

NDSA Innovation Working Group Call Monday March 3, 2014, 2pm-3pm Eastern

= In Attendance =

* Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
* Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council
* Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
* Sheila Morrissey, Ithaka
* Anne Wootton, Pop Up Archive
* Matthew McEniry, Texas Tech

= Next Working Group Meeting =

* '''Monday May 12 [note different date; not usual first Monday!], 2014, 2-3pm Eastern'''

= TL;DR =
* If you want to be on the Innovation Awards or DSII review panel, let co-chairs know
* DSII Challenge entry page: http://dsii.ideascale.com/
* Digital Preservation Q&A site: http://qanda.digipres.org/
* Interviews: you know you want to do one
* If you have ideas for digital stewardship research areas for the 2015 National Agenda, let co-chairs know

= Action Items =

* Sheila, Matt will be on Innovation Awards & DSII challenge review panel.
* Trevor nominates Chelcie Rowell to also be on the panel.
* Jefferson will send a “last chance to be on this awesome panel” email to the list.
* Jane will send info on DSII to Innovation list, then to NDSA-all
* Trevor/Jefferson will handle blog post Awards announcement
* Trevor/Jane will handle blog post DSII announcement
* Jefferson to send Q&A info to Innovation (http://qanda.digipres.org/)
* All to seed content into the Q&A forum (Jane from Digital Curation GG, Jefferson from StackEx, anyone else via anthing else or new topics)
* Interview stuff (Anne on news topics, Jefferson re Olive Archive stuff, Sheila re interesting IDCC presentations)
* Last chance for group to give ideas for 2015 Agenda document

= Innovation Awards & DSII =

* Timeline:
** March 17 (week of) - Announce and open nominations via Signal blog post (post can be 95% recycled content)
**Friday, April 25 - Deadline for nominations
**Friday, May 16 - Have selected and contacted winners
**June - blog post announcing winners before DP14 (min-July)

* DSII: http://dsii.ideascale.com/
* Jane will notify Innovation, then NDSA-All
* It will be announced separately from Awards, but will have the same reviews and general timeline

= DigPres Q&A =

* Located here: http://qanda.digipres.org/
* Need to revive the conversation with OPF about if this is ready to go forward
* We will work to start adding content under the radar
* Will then ping WG, then NDSA-All
** Potential content sources: old StackEx, Digital Curation Google Group, digpres@ala list, Bert Lyons NYT articles
* Potential for launch at DP14
* Down-the-road ideas: twitter hashtage? Auto-tweet out new questions?

= Interviews =

* Mostly noted in Action Items above
* Anne sent link re preserving news apps
* Sheila has some IDCC presentations to send info about

= National Agenda 2015 =

* Soliciting new Research Ideas for the next agenda
* Ideas: 
** Delivery of complex objects via emulation -- complex in that they aren’t packaged but instead distributed and thus their mappings may also need preservation
** Research on algorithmic screening or assessment of privacy or copyright information
** Research on named entity recognition (NER), natural language processing (NLP), semantic text analysis, topic modeling, etc, for automating archival description (or as wayfinding/pathway discovery mechanism)