NDSA:Values Statement: Difference between revisions

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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance and all member organizations are bound as a community by the following values.

Stewardship

Members of the NDSA are committed to managing digital content for current and long-term use. The members of the NDSA are actively committed to ensuring sustained access to the digital content that comprises our national history and empowers us as leaders in the global knowledge economy. Individually, these organizations support the management of digital resources; as an Alliance, we commit to protecting our nation's cultural, scientific, scholarly, and business heritage.

Collaboration

Collaborative work is the centering value of the Alliance, it is a value shared by all members and a priority in work with all organizations and associations. Approaching digital stewardship collaboratively allows the NDSA to coordinate effort, avoid duplicate work, build a community of practice, develop new preservation strategies, flexibly respond to a changing economic landscape, and build relationships to increase capacity to manage content beyond institutional boundaries.

Inclusiveness

The NDSA is a collaborative effort to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of current and future generations. We value the range of experience, the potential for innovation, and the fault-tolerance that heterogeneity brings. We believe the preservation of digital information is a pervasive challenge and that engaging across different communities strengthens the nation’s digital preservation practices and increases the likelihood of preserving data now and into the future.

Exchange

Members of the Alliance encourage the open exchange of ideas, services, and software. We commit to being transparent in our operations and decisions, and to releasing works produced by the organization (such as software, standards, and publications) under open licenses. This leverages the commitments of each member to increase the capacity of the entire stewardship network. In this way the act of participation and engagement result in innovations and benefits that can be shared by all.

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-'''Notes from Organizing Workshop, Review of Day One: Changes Recommended for Framing Documents'''<br/><br/>
+The National Digital Stewardship Alliance and all member organizations are bound as a community by the following values.<br/><br/>
-The Mission and Values subcommittee presented the values statement and the rationale that went into creating it. Particular attention was given to crafting a statement that clearly did not exclude any organizations for participating in the Alliance in at least some capacity.
+==Stewardship==
-The entire group reviewed the draft values statement (see Appendix B).  "Stewardship" was identified as the central, defining value and it was proposed that "Stewardship" become the first value listed. There was some conversation about the term "Diversity," specifically that it could be misunderstood out of context. This conclusion was reinforced by the small group conversations. It was determined that perhaps "Inclusiveness" was a better term for this value.
+Members of the NDSA are committed to managing digital content for current and long-term use. The members of the NDSA are actively committed to ensuring sustained access to the digital content that comprises our national history and empowers us as leaders in the global knowledge economy. Individually, these organizations support the management of digital resources; as an Alliance, we commit to protecting our nation's cultural, scientific, scholarly, and business heritage.<br/><br/>
-Ultimately, the group concluded that the power of the values was in relation to one another, no one value alone could represent the shared understanding of the Alliance.
-'''Small Group Discussion Topic:'''
+==Collaboration==
-How can the alliance demonstrate these values?
+Collaborative work is the centering value of the Alliance, it is a value shared by all members and a priority in work with all organizations and associations. Approaching digital stewardship collaboratively allows the NDSA to coordinate effort, avoid duplicate work, build a community of practice, develop new preservation strategies, flexibly respond to a changing economic landscape, and build relationships to increase capacity to manage content beyond institutional boundaries.<br/><br/>
-* In working groups
-* In NDSA communication
-* In alliance meetings
-The group agreed about he basic values of the Alliance. Discussion indicated consensus around  the importance of:
+==Inclusiveness==
-* Align the NDSA work with the missions and interests of the members
+The NDSA is a collaborative effort to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of current and future generations. We value the range of experience, the potential for innovation, and the fault-tolerance that heterogeneity brings. We believe the preservation of digital information is a pervasive challenge and that engaging across different communities strengthens the nation’s digital preservation practices and increases the likelihood of preserving data now and into the future.<br/><br/>
-* Raising public awareness
-* Identify and reach out to marginalized and underserved digital preservation communities, specifically small and local communities
-* Clarify the idea of “exchange;” not just sharing and reuse of resources among the NDSA but reaching out beyond this group to the broader community we're trying to serve
-* Sustainability needs to be built into the values statement in a more prominent way
-* “Diversity” includes inclusion of organizations and heterogeneity and diversity of approaches
-* Stewardship as THE mission; collaboration, exchange and inclusion support the mission of stewardship; perhaps stewardship includes matching orphan collections with institutions willing to steward them
-* Articulate the distinction of NDSA from other initiatives and  the benefits of participating in the NDSA
-Comments were also made from some individuals about the value of the following activities as well:
+==Exchange==
-* Work with researchers (scientific) to  raise awareness of the reproducibility of scientific results
+Members of the Alliance encourage the open exchange of ideas, services, and software. We commit to being transparent in our operations and decisions, and to releasing works produced by the organization (such as software, standards, and publications) under open licenses. This leverages the commitments of each member to increase the capacity of the entire stewardship network. In this way the act of participation and engagement result in innovations and benefits that can be shared by all.<br/><br/>
-* Conduct gap analysis  of current capacity to develop a research agenda
-* Leverage Web 2.0 communication channels to disseminate knowledge about existing capacities
-* Pair with high tech companies that are doing innovative things in data management and figure out how to motivate them to work with us, but also make sure that it's a mutually-beneficial relationship, perhaps an advisory group (possible models: FACA/NGAC?)
-'''Specific changes to the draft included:'''
-* Changed order to place &ldquo;Stewardship&rdquo; at the top.
-* Changed &ldquo;citizens&rdquo; to &ldquo;generations&rdquo;.
-* Under &ldquo;Stewardship&rdquo; in second sentence, changed &ldquo;entrusted keepers of digital content&rdquo; to &ldquo;actively committed to ensuring sustained access to the digital content&rdquo;.
-* Under &ldquo;Stewardship&rdquo; in last sentence, changed &ldquo;actively oversee the administration of digital resources&rdquo; to &ldquo;support the management of digital resources&rdquo;.
-* Changed &ldquo;Diversity&rdquo; to &ldquo;Inclusiveness&rdquo;.
-* Under &ldquo;Diversity (Inclusiveness)&rdquo; in last sentence, changed &ldquo;challenge that extends beyond the boundaries of domain&rdquo; to &ldquo;pervasive challenge&rdquo, and the structure of the last part of that sentence.<br/><br/>
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-With respect to exchange, there was substantial commentary during the meeting on the need for transparency of operations and open source/open (in the sense of CC-Atribution) documents. A commitment to both should be put in the exchange section to make it more meaningful. E.g.:
-"As an organization, we commit to being transparent in our operations and decisions, and to releasing works produced by the organization (such as software, standards, and publications) under open licenses."
---[[NDSA:User:Micah altman|Micah altman]] 19:48, 17 January 2011 (UTC)