NDSA:Meeting Notes

NDSA Meeting May 6, 2015

Attendees:

• Maureen Harlow
• Rachel Howard
• Edward McCain
• Gail McMillan
• Christie Moffatt
• Abbey Potter
• Abby Smith Rumsey
• Imogen Smith
• Lauren Work

iPRES conference (Nov. 2-6, Chapel Hill, NC) panel proposals due May 15

Ideas for proposals:

• Ed McCain suggested a panel on born-digital news preservation
• also a suggestion for a panel on work with content creators
• Gail would like to help but not attending iPRES
• email will be sent to CWG listserv to solicit additional ideas and participants

NDSA transition

• RFP issued May 1-June 30, 2015 for a planned transition to a new host by September 30, 2015.
• working groups will continue through transition
• members encouraged to share comments, concerns, suggestions for hosts, and questions
• A question was asked about any proposals received. As of May 6, only inquiries have been made.

Member news

• LC released new access interface to web archive collections
• Ed McCain shared information about a research project to assess the value/utility of born-digital news. Campus focus groups (at the University of Missouri) will followed by a survey. Ed will share updates at a later meeting.

Member presentation: Imogen Smith, Dance Heritage Coalition

• Recently received a Knight Foundation Prototype Fund Grant
• goal to provide links between born-digital performance media and related writings
• beginning with in-person outreach to producers and users of the resources
• locating and ingesting content; some content is feely available online and some are not
• diverse array of content and formats
• 6 months to see what can be produced
• looking for feedback!
  • Abbey Potter suggested webrecorder.io (https://webrecorder.io/) might be a useful tool to explore

Next CWG meeting will be Wednesday, June 3 at 11 a.m. EST