NDSA:Past Award Ideas

Awards Ideas

The NDSA innovation working group has convened an action team to create, accept nominations for, and ultimately give out the inaugural set of awards at next years meeting. You can expect to hear more about the awards and the process for nomination. With that said, an easy way to be involved in this process is to simply share your ideas for awards on the wiki. Below are some example ideas of the kinds of awards in the categories workshop participants discussed. Which of these seem like good ideas to you? What do you think we need to do a better job recognizing? We would be thrilled if you would take a few minutes to share your thoughts.

Examples of sustainability-focused awards

• Most successful stewardship of an “at risk” content collection
• Most creative approach to sustainability for a new content collection
• Most creative approach to sustainability for an existing content collection
• Best focus on use of standards in content stewardship
• Best vision of sustainability in digital stewardship
• Best use of collaboration in supporting collections
• Best crowd-sourcing projects or tools
• Most interesting migration or emulation project
• Best approach to new funding resources
• Real world reliability of long-term storage: recognizing digital collections stewarded over a long time

Examples of content-focused awards

• Most unusual new collection under stewardship
• Most unusual existing collection under stewardship
• Most innovative user interface to a digital collection
• Best new collection in a specific format type
• Best existing collection in a specific format type
• Best approach to highlighting or providing more visibility to a collection
• Best vision of content development for the future
• Good migrations: award for system and format migrations

Examples of Organization-Focused Awards

• Most creative approach to a new collection under stewardship
• Most creative approach to an existing collection under stewardship
• Best new collection under stewardship by a small public library
• Best new collection under stewardship by a non-library organization
• Best new collection under stewardship by a state library organization
• Best business models for funding preservation and access to public goods
• Winning legal strategies: recognizing legal strategies for enabling long term access in face of short-term copyright, IP and confidentiality restrictions
• Taking initiative: stewardship activities by non-typical stewards
• Best outreach activities to educate others on digital stewardship (most creative or most far-reaching)
• Best digital stewardship higher-education program or professor

Examples of student awards

• Best student paper related to digital stewardship
• Best new collection student project
• Most important contribution from a student fellow or intern to a digital stewardship initiative
• Best or most innovative pedagogical initiative fostering digital preservation
• Rising star award (could be awarded based on achievement in one or more of the areas listed above)