NDSA:Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012

On the Call

• Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
• Andrea Goethels, Harvard University
• Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
• Carol Kussmann, Minnesota Historical Society
• Cory Snavely, University of Michigan
• Dean Farrell State Library North Carolina
• Jefferson Bailey, Metro NYC
• John Spenser, BMS Chase
• Karen Cariani, WGBH
• Mark Evans, Tesella
• Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
• Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

Action Items:

• Everyone: take a moment to ask and or answer a digital preservation question on the Libraries and Information Science stack exchange site. http://libraries.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-preservation
• Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative to kick off a small team of folks who will try to get members to participate in asking and answering questions.
• Robin volunteered to share the Levels document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
• Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on the Levels document.
• Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
• Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.
• Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the webinar project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

Quick report out on ongoing Levels of Preservation action team

The Levels of Preservation Action Team is planning to share the draft levels document for public comment in the next few weeks. So keep an eye out for that. The drafts are also on the project page, so if you would like to review them sooner rather than later you can see them there.

Several members volunteered to help solicit feedback to further refine the levels

• Robin volunteered to share the document with colleagues at UVA to both refine the document and help develop some short use cases for how this could be used inside institutions.
• Jefferson volunteered to get some folks from different institutions in NYC to comment on it.
• Mark volunteered to get something about reviewing the levels on the iPres CurateCamp agenda.
• Robin volunteered to pitch a session on the Levels for the Pasig conference in Baltimore in the spring.

Stack Exchange Libraries and Information Science Site: Potential place to build practical knowledge base of digital preservation infrastructure Q&A

There was general interest in the stack exchange project initiated by the innovation group. This could be a great opportunity for us to create a more public knowledge base around some of the infrastructure questions and discussions we have been having on the list.

Jefferson suggested that we try and get folks to start asking and answering the questions that they proposed for the digital preservation stack exchange site proposal on the library and information science site with the digital preservation tag. This seemed to be something that had consensus. There were also suggestions that we could try to use the list serve to try and get folks to generate questions that we then ask and answer on Stack Exchange. Trevor volunteered to draft up a short charter document for the Stack Libraries initiative.

New activity idea: Member technical briefing webexs

A new activity to hold webex briefing/presentation/discussions was suggested. This is rooted in the fact that several members found the initial cloud presentations project to be particularly useful and an idea from the leadership committee that it would be useful to have one of the groups run something like a webinar series.

It was suggested that the best way to do this would be, like the cloud presentations, to follow a particular topic. Given the groups ongoing interest in open source, it seemed like it would be a natural fit to make the first topic for the series to be open source software projects related to digital preservation infrastructure. The goal here is for these presentations to be of general interest to the NDSA as an information sharing activity but to also have them inform some kind of small outputs related to the them (could be reflective blog posts from participants, could be some kind of short guidelines document on some of the best practices or values of open source software for digital preservation, that would be TBD)

Trevor, Jefferson and Karen volunteered to draft a charter for the project in general and to take a first pass at an invitation list for presenters.

The idea for this activity is that we would use the working group call time as the time to hold these briefings. So we would move to a schedule where every other call would be a working meeting and a briefing.

Reworking the NDSA Wiki pages

The group felt good about the approach to reorganizing the wiki pages to more clearly surface the ongoing and inactive projects. This includes both starting to use the new activity charters to make the projects a bit more legible and reorganizing the homepage of the wiki to list out the ongoing projects.

Several members suggested that it would be better to move to make the wiki entirely public. (Currently everything inside the wiki is behind a login). The goals here were too fold. First, people inside the NDSA are far more likely to actually read wiki pages if they don’t need to login. Second, the group thought that the wiki could be much more useful for those outside the NDSA if they could explore it if they were interested. Trevor volunteered to bring this up to the other working group co-chairs and if there is interest from other groups explore the feasibility of this with the LC folks that administrate the wiki.