View source for NDSA:April 20, 2015 Standards and Practices Working Group Notes

== Announcements and Project Updates ==
* Archiving Email Symposium - June 2-3, 2015 at Library of Congress. Email Kate or Erin for more info.
* The UNESCO PERSIST Project - NDSA was asked to provide feedback or comment the UNESCO PERSIST Project.  This project is looking to hear what some countries are doing about a national approach to digital preservation and what UNESCO to do to encourage member states in the policy and practice domain. Folks interested in commenting can send comments directly from their institution. Please contact Kate or Erin for the contact email.
**http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/persist_unesco_digital_strategy_for_information_sustainability/#.VT_NVGPVt8E

== Today’s discussion topic: S&P Poster proposal for iPRES ==
*Over the past year, we have explored different topics of interest to the group – preserving digital art, identifying challenges to preserving digital video, showcasing cataloging tools for A/V content and email preservation. Given our all of our good work this year and in past years, we thought it might be a good opportunity to take stock and showcase our project and activities.  
*This year, iPres 2015 (http://ipres2015.org/) will be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in early November. We’d like to take this opportunity of an international conference venue being close to home and propose a poster on the work of the NDSA Standards and Practices Working Group to iPRES.
*See draft proposal below for the outcome of the discussion.

== Next Steps ==
First deliverable is the abstract due on '''June 29, 2015'''. Please contact Kate, Andrea or Erin if you’d like to join the Poster Team. 


== Draft of proposal -- post-meeting email == 


Thanks to all for the great brainstorming session for our planned Standards and Practices “In the Thicket of It” poster for iPRES. Using the graphical representation of a long-living hardwood like a bristlecone pine tree, our members names would serve as nutrients in the soil for the roots (representing aggregated membership groups such as academic libraries, government, non-profits, etc). Main trunks would represent major areas explored within our group such as standards, unique content classes, and physical media.  Smaller branches off the main trunks would be specific projects – such as the PDF/A report for the standards, optical media for the physical media, software based art for content classes, etc. 


Each project would list (via bullets in leaves or other easy to read display) how it came to be, what the main area of discussions were and what the outputs were (reports, discussion, blog posts, etc). 


The poster name “In the Thicket of It” (which Kate just made up after the call and is by no means the final name) could refer to both the botanical representation of the data in tree form but also our main message: S&P members are active practitioners – right in the thick of it, get it? – working on moving the work forward on real world issues.  We would want to showcase that the needs of the group germinate in conversations, the results of which are resources and activities that benefit not only the working group members but also the community-at-large.