NDSA:Innovation Working Group

Note: After conversation and analysis in 2016 and early 2017, Innovation Interest Group members decided officially to sunset the group. Participants are encouraged to use the framework of the NDSA to explore the many ideas for new working groups that emerged from these discussions. See the NDSA website for information on starting new groups.

Statement of Purpose

By encouraging and sharing innovative methods of digital preservation practices and technologies, we plan to distribute, document, and share emerging concepts, while conducting and guiding research and development with engaged partners to find solutions where none exist.

Current Action Team Projects

Annual Recognition Awards

This team plans for the annual awards. The group will pick the specific set of awards we want to accept nominations for, decide on how we want to do nominations, and presumably, make the decisions on who will win the first set of awards. For more information, see this blog post on the awards project.

Insights Interview series for Digital Preservation Blog

Group members conduct interviews with individuals inside and outside of the organizations and specialties currently participating in the NDSA. Examples of potential related fields include but are not limited to, digital archeology/forensics, virtualization of programming environments, material sciences, and humanities computing. The interviews are published to the Library of Congress’ digital preservation blog. For an example of what this group does, see the first interview with David Rosenthal.

NDSA Presence on Google Summer of Code

Google summer of code connects student developers with mentor’s at organizations to write code for various open source software projects. This action team is focused on planning a coordinated presence for NDSA member open source software projects on Google’s Summer of Code project.

Storage Ping Technical Challenge

The idea behind this project is to plan a ping service that could check on many of the features of preservation storage systems. This could include, average latency, bit integrity, up time for files, etc. The group will work on putting together a plan for how to implement this and the kinds of light weight polices that would need to be put in place to run such a technical benchmark.

See NDSA:Future projects for areas for the group to explore at a later date.

Current Members

A list of current members is posted here: NDSA:Innovation Working Group Members.

Meeting Schedule and Minutes

Innovation Working Group Call: May 12, 2015, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 05-12-15

Innovation Working Group Call: February 10, 2015, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 02-10-15

Innovation Working Group Call: November 4, 2014, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 11-04-14

Innovation Working Group Call: September 9, 2014, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 09-09-14

Innovation Working Group Call: July 8, 2014, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 07-08-14

Innovation Working Group Call: May 19, 2014, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 05-19-14

Innovation Working Group Call: March 3, 2014, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 03-03-14

Innovation Working Group Call: January 13, 2014, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 01-13-14

Innovation Working Group Call: November 4, 2013, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 11-04-13

Innovation Working Group Call: September 9, 2013, 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 09-09-13

Innovation Working Group Call: July 8, 2013 from 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 07-08-13

Innovation Working Group Call: May 13, 2013 from 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 05-13-13

Innovation Working Group Call: Mar 4th, 2013 from 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 03-04-13

Innovation Working Group Call: Jan 7th, 2012 from 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 01-07-13

Innovation Working Group Call: November 5th, 2012 from 2:00pm-3:00pm NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 11-05-12

Innovation Working Group Call: May 29th, 2012 from 1:00-2:00 PM NDSA:Meeting Minutes 05-29-12

Innovation Working Group Call: April 30th, 2012 from 1:00-2:00 PM NDSA:Meeting Minutes 04-30-12

Innovation Working Group Call: March 26, 2012 from 10:00am-11:00am - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 03-26-12

Innovation Working Group Call: February 27, 2012 from 12:00pm-1:00pm - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 02-27-12

Innovation Working Group Call: January 27, 2012 from 3:00pm-4:00pm - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 01-27-12

Innovation Working Group Call: December 16, 2011 from 3:00pm-3:30pm - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 12-16-11

Awards Action Team Kick Off: November 21, 2011 from 3:00pm - 4:00pm - NDSA:Monday, November 21, 2011

Innovation Working Group Call: November 18, 2011 from 1:00pm – 2:00 PM ET - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 11-18-11

Action Team Kick Off: March 8, 2010 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 03-8-11

Working Group Charter Discussion: November 5, 2010 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 12-7-10

Practices

• Listserv: for ongoing communication
• Web site: for public dissemination of group’s work
• Monthly conference call: for coordinating ongoing activities
• Wiki: our common work space

Participation

Participation in the Innovation Working Group is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Jefferson Bailey or Jane Mandelbaum to join the working group.

Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.

Action Team may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.