NDSA:Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013

On the Call:

• Andrea Goethals, Harvard University
• Andy Aston, Brown University
• Chris Miller
• Christopher “Cal” Lee, UNC
• John Spencer, BMS Chase
• Emily Shaw, U of Iowa
• Gail Truman, Truman Technologies
• Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
• Jefferson Bailey- Metropolitan New York Library Council
• José “Ricky” Padilla- LoC intern
• Karen Cariani, WGBH
• Mark Myers- Kentucky State Archive
• Micah Altman- MIT
• Nicholas Taylor- Library of Congress
• Trevor Owens- Library of Congress

Presentations vs calls

• Trevor asked if the presentations were a good way for us to work. John said he liked the presentations from the OSS vendors.
• Coordinating comm report on top issues relating to presentations.
• Next presentations:
  • February 26 Fedora 2 pm
  • Hydra March 19 3 pm ET
• Group was asked to think about what are really big infrastructure issues for preservation for us to discuss. If there were other ideas for open source software projects or initiatives?
• Other options for presentations were:
  • Bit Curator (Cal Lee said he would be fine with presenting it)
  • OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine)
  • DPLA open source (good to hear more about what they are creating)

2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

• Micah mentioned favor for the presentations and raised the preservation agenda question.
  • He was concerned this working group hadn’t contributed to the Agenda so far.
• Explained Agenda as a nationwide agenda covering 1,3,5 year emerging issues in technology and other
• Put on agenda for this group for the March 26 call.
• Trevor said he will pull out chunk of Agenda that seems most Infrastructure related.
• Andrea said she will send out the notes from the Standards group wiki on brainstorming related to the NDSA agenda.

2013 Storage Survey

• Rerun Survey to collect data again.
  • Decision to rerun survey every 2 years.
  • Last survey was run from August 2011 – November 2011
  • Ricky will send the past survey questions to be reviewed; followed by the survey report
• Survey review and refinement
  • Enough changes that it could be useful.
  • Some questions were confusing – so we’d want to refine those.
  • Micah said we should start uniting our efforts to begin refining the survey and building a conversation around it.
  • He also suggested we wait for D-Lib’s feedback before we start seriously working on the revision of the survey questions
• Plan to target organizations outside the NDSA members
  • John wants more of a response from the commercial side.
    • He suggested we invite them to the September meeting
  • It was suggested we should think about what population we are generalizing to. What are museums and archives doing to some extent? Can we identify a reduced set of key questions and get it off to NDSA members about where they are into the range of communities. Where are we in relation to these other communities?
  • Discussed that only an additional 10-15 non NDSA members could probably be added.
  • The Interesting potential organizations to include that were mentioned were:
    • MLB (Not just vendors with products but folks with content. Also MLB best use of high data coming in at a high rate)
    • Disney and Universal (they are doing top to bottom asset survey as to how they are dealing with their assets so they may be interested in the survey)
  • Trevor proposed to get membership organizations, and get their lists to target for survey. Options that were mentioned are:
    • ARL
    • SAA
    • NASCIO
    • AMIA
• It was decided that the preliminary results should be ready for the storage meeting in September.
  • At the meeting we could ask for people to respond to the survey and those who haven’t filled it out could (data from these late survey was suggested to be less significant than the data already obtained by that time)