NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 03-04-13

NDSA Innovations Working Group Call Mar 04, 2013 2pm-3pm

In Attendance

• Ben Vershbow, New York Public Library
• Dan Dodge, Thomson Reuters
• Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
• Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council
• José “Ricky” Padilla, Intern- Library of Congress
• Shelia Morrissey, ITHAKA
• Trevor Owens, Library of Congress

Innovation Insights Award

• Prepare the page (change dates on existing page) and get people to start nominating
• Trevor: nominated the Pop-up Archive
• The WG should announce that we are looking for nominations
• Old list had decent bit of nominations but a lot
• Trevor and Ricky will update list
• Important to remember that nominees should still be alive
• Purpose of the Awards is to nominate projects from different fields or people that don’t already have many awards. People who normally wouldn't come to our attention

Interviews

• Interviews: Ongoing, Sheila SCAPE and DPC event. William Kilbride, Scape Project. Preservation at scale. All of interest.
• Jefferson sent Jason Scott questions. Awaiting response.

National Agenda document

• Exciting research topics: up on the Draft version of the agenda on the wiki.
• Jane has been doing research to see what research is on digital preservation. Used Google scholar, not journal aggregates.

Speaker Series

• Speaker series: Funders idea discussed with analogy of speed dating
• SWAT: Conversations on this, around the NYPL space.
  • Lots of agreement that this would be a good thing to do – media archeology lab in NYPL collaborate with metro. Possibility to do this out at long island city location. Possibility for NYU ITP and or CUNY. Pratt’s campus (Might be a good idea to separate out getting the work done in NYPL’s long island place, and having smaller space at NYPL for public programming.)
  • Should look for alternatives of NYPL as space provider (speak to Don about this)

Digital Preservation Stack Exchange

• Last mentioned 10 months ago
• Move of private beta and into public
• Already has near 70 questions
• WG asked to think of ways to get more people involved
  • Possibility is to incentivize like an invite get to go to a conference or we interview that person
• WG should think of different listservs that could add to this and send it to them
  • Some lists are TADA, Photographers association, SNIA, ELDB, and AMIA
• Suggested that we advertise to people in DAM works (including students), science data management, and traditional conservation preservation community.
• See if Lori Emerson and more Digital Humanities people can pass it around

Other Notes

• Partnership with e-recycling to buy old hardware off them really cheap
• Think of new digital preservation pedagogical work (it would be hypothetical work to then be applied)
  • Wait for after the agenda
  • WG has heard discontent about digital preservation grad programs. Area could need some innovation