NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 05-13-13

NDSA Innovations Working Group Call Monday May 13, 2013 2pm-3pm

In Attendance

• Ben Vershbow, New York Public Library
• Frederick Zarndt, Consultant
• 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
• Matthew McEniry, Texas Tech
• Anne Wootton, PopUp Archive
• Bailey Smith, PopUp Archive
• Lily Pregill, NYARC

Action Items

• Anne, Bailey, Matt will join Jane, Jefferson, Trevor on Awards committee
• Anne & Bailey will work on interviewing DPLA
• Anne & Bailey will work on interviewing BAVC
• Jefferson will interview NYARC reps re web archiving report
• Trevor will follow-up with Bob Horton re speaker series
• Jefferson will start a shared doc on practical & cost-oriented digital forensics info
• Jefferson will start a shared doc on innovative curriculum & pedagogy re digital stewardship

Innovation Insights Award

• Nomination period closes this week
• Team-members will get a doc of the nominations next week and will convene for a call the week of 5/27 to choose winners.

Innovation Interviews

• Anne & Bailey will pursue interviews with DPLA & BAVC
• Jefferson will work with Lily for an interview with NYARC
• Trevor is interviewing Lev Manovich
• Others are welcome to run with an interview, see google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVLg5yBBkzNa5moriTaKB7w8MwEYnEmYJ5eYGXf9EN8/edit

SWAT & Forensic Workstations

• Jefferson will create a google doc to consolidate practical advice, especially with a focus on costs and expertise required and cost-benefit levels of vendor v. DIY.
• Working Group can perhaps help solicit the advice of practicing professionals. Potential short white paper?

Speaker Series

• Trevor will try to wrangle Bob Horton of IMLS
• Jefferson will try to wrangle NHPRC and possibly Josh Greenberg from Sloan Foundation

Digital Stewardship Curriculum

• There will be a session on this topic at NDSA Summer meeting
• Idea includes aforementioned Kickstarter student project idea
• Idea is to document, highlight, scan innovative methods of teaching digital stewardship to students. This can include hands-on, tool-based work, collection creation, institutional partnerships, and other novel curriculum models.
• Jefferson will create a google doc for capturing ideas.

National Agenda document

• Information sent out via NDSA-All

NDSA/NDIIPP Summer Meeting

• July 23-25 - last day will be CurateCamp Exhibition
• Innovation Working Group Happy Hour?

Next Working Group Meeting: Monday July 1, 2013 2-3pm EST