NDSA:Outreach Meeting Minutes 04-9-12

Monday, April 9, 2012. 3pm EST

Agenda

• Announcements
• Update on NDSA Coordinating Committee meeting.
  • The NDSA coordinating committee met in DC on March 29 and 30. Carol and Butch (plus cc members) will give an update on what was discussed at the meeting, including an Outreach group charge to develop an overall NDSA Communications Plan.
• Action Team Updates:
  • Brief updates on the current status of the work of the “Stories,” “Digital Preservation in a Box” and Kickstarter Action teams.
• Other business

Participants

Guest Scribe: Amy Rudersdorf

Attendees: Pam Greenberg , Kim Schroeder, Jane Zhang, Debora, Butch Lazorchak, Jefferson Bailey, Vicki Allen, Linda Reib, Sue Manus, Carol Minton-Morris, Dever Powell, Carol Minton Morris, Helen Tibbo

Meeting Notes

Storytellers

• Carol: April 19th meeting. Agenda and contact information to follow.
• Kim: core group of student to write PSAs. Has equipment and editing lined up. Meeting next week to get outlines for script ideas. *Hope to have this ready for July meeting.
• Carol: Kim asked how we could make some of the materials on wiki site available to students?
• Butch: Not really possible right now. Freely encourage to copy and post it in another place. Or, set up your own public facing wiki and we can place information on that.
• Kim: students setting up a blog and wiki. Don't need additional funding. 30 second PSA. Hope to generate ideas at July conference.
• Kim: PSA might be a good start to create Kickstarter project in the fall
• Butch: Drawing attention to it – hopes folks will look to Kickstarter for digital preservation efforts: 1. Create awareness and 2. Leverage tools...

DP in a Box

• Jane Zhang: Started in January. Students preparing final workshop. Flier out and promotion begins this week, held at library at Catholic University and focusing and attracting on undergrads and create a poster to July partner meeting.

Background on Jane's class: Used Box as foundation for a major assignment. Required to use and build their own outreach material. First day of class Butch introduced the class.

• Dever: Preservation Week?
• Jane: will use the class to do a workshop divided into 4 parts – storage, collection, content, ?. Each group will present the section.
• Dever will write a blog after attending the workshop.
• Butch: Explained the background and that Jane's Digital Curation class is acting as a focus group. Jane, Dever, Sue, and Butch – poster for JCDL.
• Kim may do it with her students, as well, to "build a better box."
• Jane: Course offered once per year, would like to continue – is there any further activities that are needed that students can participate in coming years?
• Butch: Want a public facing site for Box. May want to set up another tool (beyond Omeka) – then get wider engagement to build a community around it.
• Jane: Engage students to promote use of the Box once public-facing site is up.

Kickstarter Curated Pages

• Carol: Once per week check out projects to see if there are new ones of interest to the preservation community. Have found a few. If interested in becoming a curator for Kickstarter contact Carol directly.
• Kim: Happy to help with Kickstarter.