NDSA:Content WG August 28, 2013 Meeting Minutes

Attendees (18)

• Ashenfelder, Mike | Library of Congress | mashe@loc.gov
• Coates, Midge | Auburn University | coatemi@AUBURN.EDU
• Daigle, Bradley | University of Virginia | bradley@virginia.edu
• Garrett, Chad | University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture | cxgarrett@ualr.edu
• Grotke, Abbie | Web Archiving Team Lead, Library of Congress, and Co-Chair of the NDSA Content Working Group | abgr@LOC.GOV | 202-707-2833 | @agrotke
• Hartman, Cathy | Associate Dean of Libraries, University of North Texas/ Co-Chair of the NDSA Content Working Group | cathy.hartman@UNT.EDU
• Howard, Rachel | Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Louisville | rachel.howard@LOUISVILLE.EDU
• Knies, Jennie | Manager, Digital Collections, University of Maryland | levjen@UMD.EDU
• Maes, Margaret | Legal Information Preservation Alliance | mkmaes@gmail.com
• McCain, Edward | University of Missouri | mccaing@missouri.edu
• Moffatt, Christie | National Library of Medicine | moffattc@mail.nlm.nih.gov
• Muller, Chris | Muller Media Conversions | chris.muller@mullermedia.com
• Rudersdorf, Amy | Digital Public Library of America | amy@dp.la
• Rumsey, Abby Smith | Library of Congress/NDIIPP | abby@asrumsey.com
• Reib, Linda | Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records | lreib@LIB.AZ.US
• Stoller, Michael | New York University | Michael.stoller@NYU.EDU
• Truman, Gail | Truman Technologies | gail@trumantechnologies.com
• Wise, Rachel | Harvard Business School | rwise@hbs.edu

Member Presentation: Margie Maes, Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA)

Margie shared the history, organization, and goals of LIPA. LIPA is organized around preserving legal information, provides an organizational framework for the preservation of print and electronic content, and operates as a consortium of law libraries (105 now, most of which are academic law libraries).

Some projects discussed include:

• An early project to create an inventory of legal content that had already been preserved.

• Sponsoring the Chesapeake Project with Georgetown Law Library, and others.

• As an Archive-It partner, providing members with the opportunity to engage in and collaborate on web archiving efforts.

• A major print preservation initiative

LIPA now wants to do a content registry for what has been preserved digitally, to get a better sense for what remains to be done and what is still at risk.

Future Presentations

Content WG members are encouraged to give brief presentations about their own organizations/institutions and can use the Group's shared calendar to sign up. Please note that some meeting dates are reserved for focused discussions around the National Agenda.

Meet-ups, Birds of a Feather

The Group discussed that meetings are a good opportunity for face time with other NDSA members, and that members can coordinate any kind of get together, even just meeting for coffee or happy hour. Interested members should feel free to set these up.

The Archive-It partner meeting and Best Practices Exchange were mentioned as upcoming opportunities.

Creating a Content Award

The idea of creating a Content Award was discussed, somewhat like the awards of the Innovation WG. Volunteers are needed for a small team to work on this. One suggested award is one for scholarly or research use of [preserved digital content?], which would bring in communities outside of NDSA.

Curatorial Use of the NDSA Technical Group's Levels of Preservation

Bradley Daigle discussed the potential use of the Levels of Preservation in the curatorial workflow as libraries approach digital material. He suggested that curatorial levels could map to levels of preservation, and that collection curators could use these levels to assess digital content in collections to determine whether or not content should be collected, and whether further resources would be needed. Bradley is hoping to recruit volunteers to look at example collections to see if a consensus on curatorial levels could be reached. He will send a message on this to the NDSA list.

Web Archiving Survey

Abbie reported on a meeting held last week on the next web archiving survey, which is planned for October. The discussion focused on areas to explore and topics to expand. The group working on this is looking for feedback and assistance on draft questions. Minutes bhave been posted to the wiki.

Content Matters interviews for the Signal

No interviews are lined up at this time. An interview with new CWG member Edward McCain was proposed.