NDSA:Content Working Group

Statement of Purpose

The Content Working Group will focus on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with NDSA partners who will acquire the content, preserve it, and provide access to it.

Members

A list of current participants is posted here: NDSA:Content Working Group Members.

How to Get Involved

We encourage all members to participate in some capacity: whether by calling into a meeting, joining an action team, helping take minutes for our meetings, or contributing ideas via the listserv or phone calls. Any contributions are welcome! New members or existing members interested in getting more involved in the Content Working Group should review the current scope of work and action team information below. Contact your co-chairs Cathy or Abbie, or any of the Action Team leads, for more information or to jump right in and participate.

Also, if you have a new idea for an action team or something that the Content Working Group might take on, please offer it up to the group! We want to be doing things of interest to the entire working group.

Current Scope of Work

The Content Working Group’s current scope of work is to:

A) Develop or contribute to a registry of content already preserved by NDSA members.

B) Develop a clearinghouse that will enable a variety of stakeholders (content producers, archives and libraries and other potential preservationists) to:

• Determine what specific types of content or collections are at risk.
• Identify at-risk content or collections for preservation.
• Match orphan collections with appropriate trusted partner for access and preservation.

Content Registry Action Team

Visit the NDSA:Content Registry Action Team (Group A) page for information about work plans, meetings, and participants.

Clearinghouse Action Team

Visit the NDSA:Clearinghouse Action Team (Group B) page for information about work plans, meetings, and participants.

Appraisal of Local Government Information Action Team

An outcome of the CWG workshop, a need was determined for guidance on appraisal for local government information. Visit the NDSA:Local Government Information page for information about the work of an action team related to this topic.

Blog Preservation Action Team

An outcome of the CWG workshop, an action team was formed to explore the idea of a blog preservation plugin. Visit the NDSA:Blog Preservation page for more information.

Web Archiving Survey

LC is taking the lead on developing a survey of Web Archiving organizations in the U.S. to see what the scope of collecting is. Here's a page NDSA:Web Archiving Survey to start to document what a survey might look like.

Meeting Schedule and Minutes

Two meetings were held in 2010 to kick-off the Working Group and to develop the charter:

• November 5, 2010 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET - NDSA:Content WG November 5, 2010 Meeting Minutes
• December 8, 2010 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET - NDSA:Content WG December 8, 2010 Meeting Minutes

In 2011, regular Webex meetings will be from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET the first Wednesday of each month. Webex instructions will be sent prior to each meeting.

• January 5, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG January 5, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• February 2, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG February 2, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• March 2, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG March 2, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• April 6, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG April 6, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• May 4, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG May 4, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• June 1, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG June 1, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• July 7, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG July 6, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• July 19, 2011 (in person, in DC) - NDSA:Content WG July 19, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• August 3, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG August 3, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• September 7, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG September 7, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• October 5, 2011 - NDSA:Content WG October 5, 2011 Meeting Minutes
• November 2, 2011
• December 7, 2011

Practices

The group will work and collaborate using the following tools and mechanisms:

• Listserv: contact Abbie (abgr@loc.gov) to be added or removed. The list archives are available to members (requires login).
• Regular conference calls/Webex: see meetings section below.
• Annual conference
• Wiki: you're here!
• IdeaScale: http://ndsa.ideascale.com/

Participation

Participation in the Content Working Group is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Cathy Hartman (Cathy.Hartman@unt.edu) and Abbie Grotke (abgr@loc.gov) 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 Teams 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.