NDSA:DP14 Meeting Notes 14-01-06

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Digital Preservation 2014 Program Committee Kick-off Meeting

6 January 2014

Roster

• Erin Engle
• Butch Lazorchak
• Barrie Howard
• Abbie Grotke
• Vivek Navale
• Vickie Allen
• Michael Nelson
• Nicole Scalessa
• Meghan Banach Bergin
• Abbey Potter

Action items

• Develop a timeline of important dates and share with the Program Committee—Barrie and Erin
• Distribute a Doodle poll to help schedule future meeting dates on Mondays at 1:00 p.m.—Barrie
• Create a DP 2014 Program Committee page on the NDSA wiki—Barrie
• Continue brainstorming about keynote speakers, high-level topics, and themes via email—All

Review current meeting status and planning

• After a round of introductions, NDIIPP staff provided background on the annual meeting hosted by the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the past focus on grant-funded projects, changes with the establishment of the NDSA, and the re-branding of the meeting as Digital Preservation 20XX. For this this year, we hope to identify compelling speakers from the digital stewardship community and outside of it to inspire our community and provide a platform for digital preservation-focused content.
• The Program Committee’s role is to shape the meeting program and agenda. NDIIPP staff will work internally with the Library’s special events office to take care of any meeting logistics, including finding a venue, registration, website, etc.
• The meeting will be a full two-day event, with keynote speeches, panel discussions, breakout sessions, posters, demonstrations, and lightning talks. The main meeting will take place from 22–23 July, with ancillary meetings happening the day before at the Library and a CURATEcamp the day after (location TBD).

An initial brainstorm of keynote speakers included:

• Henry Rollins
• Jonathan Zittrain
• James Boyle
• Chris Muller
• danah boyd

Discuss high-level digital preservation issues to identify possible theme(s)

• Reflection on advancement of digital preservation practice and tools and other long-range outcomes of development efforts since one of the first NDIIPP-funded projects, such as the Archive Ingest and Handling Test
• Review of what tools exist for digital preservation
• Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations
• Review of how organizations can collaborate and pull resources to achieve their missions
• Online transactions and security—consider a panel on Bitcoin. Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information
• Scientific data and other content at risk of obsolescence, and what methods, techniques, and tools are being deployed to mitigate risk—consider a panel led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI, e.g., Jane Greenberg, John Faundeen, or Chris Muller (mentioned above)
• Lack of digital preservation plans by commercial firms experienced in the deployment and management of DAMs, and lack of an understanding of the value of digital stewardship by executives—perhaps Stephen Wolfram (mentioned above) or David Rosenthal could address this issue in depth
• The right to be forgotten—danah boyd (mentioned above) has addressed this issue somewhat