NDSA:Calendar

Content Working Group Calendar

Members: feel free to edit this calendar directly to add Content Team meetings, In-person CWG meetings tied in with conferences, or other events. Trouble with wiki editing? Contact Abbie (abgr@loc.gov) if you need help.

We are now signing up members to give brief presentations at our all-hands meetings. Please sign up for any future open slot by clicking "edit" next to the month you'd like to sign up for, and replacing "open" text with your name and institution. See NDSA:Member Presentations for more information.

2013

August 2013

• 8/11-17: SAA

• Tuesday 8/20, 3pm ET: Call to discuss Web Archiving Survey planning/questions. Minutes here: NDSA:August 21, 2013 Meeting Minutes

• 8/28 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET: Member Presentations/Discussion. Minutes here: NDSA:Content WG August 28, 2013 Meeting Minutes
  • Margie Maes, LIPA : File:NDSA lightning talk Maes LIPA.pdf

September 2013

No meetings scheduled.

October 2013

• 10/2 CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. *Agenda: Misc topics: general updates from Content teams, review of web archiving survey, misc. CANCELLED DUE TO SHUTDOWN
• Week of October 21: Web Archiving Survey launch/announcement

November 2013

• 11/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. NDSA:CWG Meeting Minutes November 6, 2013 (includes presentations)
  • Rachel Wise (Harvard Business School)
  • Rachel Howard (University of Louisville)
  • Chris Dietrich, National Park Service
• 11/13-15: Best Practices Exchange/Archive-IT partner meeting
• 11/30 Web archiving survey closes

December 2013

• 12/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Presenters:
  • Theme: National Agenda topic: Web and Social Media (Kris Carpenter/IA and Abbie Grotke/LC) NDSA:12/3/13 Meeting Minutes (includes links to presentation slides)

• 12/9-12/10: CNI in D.C.

2014

January 2014

• 1/8: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Theme: Electronic Records - National Agenda Content Area NDSA:Jan 8 2014 Minutes

Speakers:

• Erik Rau, Hagley (Business Records)
• Sarah Koonts, State Archivist for North Carolina (COSA's SERI)
• Glen McAninch, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (State Records)
• Bob Spangler, NARA (Federal Records)

February 2014

• 2/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion/Updates on CWG business. Presenters:
  • Barbara Haws and Mitch Brodsky, New York Philharmonic NDSA:CWG February 5 Meeting Minutes

March 2014

• 3/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Theme: Moving Image and Sound - National Agenda Content Area NDSA:Meeting Minutes 3/5/14
  • John Spencer, BMS/Chase
  • Karen Cariani, WGBH
  • Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network
  • Kat Bell, Dance Heritage Coalition

• 3/7-16: SXSW

April 2014

• 4/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. CANCELLED

May 2014

• 5/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Member Presentations/Discussion. NDSA:May 7 Minutes

Presenters: Maureen Harlow: National Digital Stewardship Residency at NLM and Nicholas Taylor, Stanford University

June 2014

• 6/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Theme: Research Data - National Agenda Content Area NDSA:June 4 Meeting Minutes

July 2014

• 7/2: CWG All-hands meeting canceled.

• 7/21 3:30-5pm ET (face-to-face meeting at Library of Congress, Room LM 139) NDSA:Meeting Minutes July 21, 2014

August 2014

• 8/29: Brainstorming monthly meeting topics NDSA:Meeting Minutes 8/29/14

September 2014

• 9/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. NDSA:Meeting Minutes 9/3/14

October 2014

• 10/1: CWG All-hands meeting. NDSA:Meeting minutes 10/1/14

November 2014

• 11/5: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

December 2014

• 12/3: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p82pmstsurk/

Edward McCain joined us to talk about the recent event held at RJI, Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Born Digital News Content (http://www.rjionline.org/events/memoryhole).

We also had a presentation from Ben Welsh, who is a database producer at the Los Angeles Times and the creator of PastPages, an archive dedicated to the preservation of online news. Ben attended the RJI event and presented about StoryTracker, and will reprise his presentation for our meeting. StoryTracker is a new set of open source tools aimed at analyzing the stories that appear on news homepages. In this brief talk, Ben will show its key features and demonstrate how it could be useful in other efforts to save and scrutinize the Web.

2015

January 2015

• 1/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. MEETING CANCELLED

February 2015

• 2/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording of meeting is here: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p28iezwy6u9/

Focus of meeting was sharing ideas for projects and speakers for 2015. Looked at NDSA National Agenda recommended actions, Web Archiving Survey, and notes from previous brainstorming sessions.

March 2015

• 3/4: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. Recording: https://locosi.adobeconnect.com/p998z07jksc/

Passcode: March2015CWG

April 2015

• 4/1: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Theme: Managing Electronic Records (focusing on working with creators) - 2015 National Agenda Content Area

Glen McAninch, University of Kentucky shared the challenges of records retention for websites, working with creators to produce preservation ready formats, metadata

Kevin De Vorsey, NARA shared challenges of providing transfer guidance to 250 federal agencies, flexible time frames for transferring content to NARA, preparing meaningful guidelines for records created now and records that will be handed over many years from now, transfer guidance for records officers that IT can work with, metadata requirements.

May 2015

• 5/6: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. NDSA:Meeting Notes

Agenda:

• Member presentation from the Dance Heritage Coalition
• iPRES November 2-6 in Chapel Hill, NC (possible contributions from NDSA members)
• NDSA transition
• Member news

June 2015

• 6/3: CWG All-hands meeting,

Agenda

• Presentation from Vangelis Banos, the creator of the ArchiveReady tool for evaluating website archivability. ArchiveReady makes calculations based on 4 factors: accessibility, cohesion, metadata, and standards compliance. Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/vbanos1/website-archivability-library-of-congress-ndiipp-presentation-20150603.
• Proposals for iPRES 2015 conference, Chapel Hill, NC, November 2-6
• Planning for Web Archiving Survey 2015
• Member announcements/news

July 2015

• 7/1: No meeting

August 2015

• 8/5: No meeting

September 2015

• DUE to problems with a power outage and hardware failure the NDSA listservs were unoperational August 29-September 3. An email update will be circulated when the listservs are back online and we will reschedule our September call for later in the month. Sorry for the last-minute change.

• 9/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Agenda:

• iPres meeting panel, reception (see also http://ipres2015.org/)

• 2015 NDSA Web Archiving Survey update

• NDSA transition September 30

October 2015

• 10/7: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET.

Member presentation: Lauren Work from Virginia Commonwealth University

November 2015

• 11/4: No meeting. NDSA events at iPRES 2015 in Chapel Hill, NC.

December 2015

• 12/2: CWG All-hands meeting, 11am ET. NDSA:December 2, 2015 Meeting Notes

Discussed the activities of the working group, what works well and what doesn’t, and how we might recommend the group carry forward into the future. Oliver Bendorf of DLF joined us for the discussion.

Members were asked to consider the following questions in advance of the meeting:

• What activities do you get the most out of? What do you find less useful?
  • Monthly discussions
  • Monthly presentations
  • Signal blog posts
  • Contributing the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Contributing to web archiving survey Reading the wiki Face to face collaboration
  • Opportunity to work on projects with other members Sharing my own work and projects Etc.

• What content related issues would you like to see the CWG bring up or cover that it hasn't?

• What groups or projects should the CWG reach out to?

• What are your questions for DLF and the Library of Congress during the transition?