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Membership
As an outgrowth of the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the Alliance is open to government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and business with commitments and activities in the areas of collecting, preserving, or ensuring long-term access to digital content.
The term of membership is for 3 years.
Recommendations for membership:
- Membership will be at the institutional level, but participation on Working Groups is open to one or more individuals at the institution.
- Membership should be open and the process by which new members can join is though:
- Application process; then sponsorship by an organization w/in the NDSA
- Review and approval by consensus of the membership subcommittee
- Membership may be revoked by a majority vote of member institutions
Eligibility and Requirements
The only responsibility of membership is participation. Members participate in one or more working group by making a sustained contribution to the work of the group for the benefit of the Alliance.
Recommendations for eligibility and requirements:
- Members should have demonstrated a commitment to digital preservation.
- Members should share the stated values of the Alliance.
Rights and Privileges
Recommendations for rights and privileges:
- Voting power for the Alliance will be distributed:
- Institutions will have one vote on organizational and governance matters affecting the Alliance.
- Individual participants will have effective decision-making power at the Working Group level.
- Working Groups (and Action Teams) can produce official work products and decide on work plans and work products autonomously, within their scope and provided that they do so in a manner transparent to the membership:
- All work products must be announced to the general membership and distributed in draft form well in advance of finalization
- Written discussion related to work product or plans should be conducted on mailing lists that are archived and open to review by the general membership.
- Where discussion is conducted through conference calls, the conference call minutes/notes should be circulated on the mailing list.
- Working groups and their members will have the authority to create Action Teams
- The work of the Action Teams will be fairly autonomous; however, a process of transparency—a “lightweight charter”—should be created to inform the Working Group members of what work is going on.
- Action Teams should report back to the Working Group on a semi-regular basis about the work they are doing.
- Action Teams could be voted on by the main working group to become more formal if the work was something that was highly valued by the community.
Outstanding Questions
- How will we engage the commercial sector while avoiding predatory vendor relationships that are not consistent with the goals of the Alliance?
- Do the for-profit orgs have the same status as the not-for-profit orgs?
- Who will review applications?
- How could international organizations become affiliated with the Alliance?