NDSA:Potential Speakers and Topics

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Speakers and Themes

Keynote Ideas

Cleared out some of the longer list of speakers that are not really under consideration and put them here. Keep those fresh ideas coming!

• Jennifer Pahlka, we invited her to DP13 and she was interested but unavailable. Currently on a fellowship at OSTP, running through the summer?
• Margaret Gould Stewart: YouTube's head of user Experience gave a really compelling talk about how YouTube thinks about Copyright
• Jonathan Zittrain Wikipedia article, see also
  • Berkman Center for Internet & Society site
  • Abstract regarding JCDL 2006 keynote on redaction, identity vs. privacy, etc.
  • Cathy Marshall's blog post regarding above keynote
• Cole Crawford or Chris Kemp, OpenStack, to talk about the power of community-driven innovation

Potential speakers who have been invited:

• Cole Crawford on 2/20 by Barrie, response pending
• danah boyd on 2/18 by Barrie, declined
• Amber Case TED Talk, on 2/20 by Erin, declined
• Henry Rollins, declined

Many interesting folks at http://www.allthingsopen.org/

• Scott Chacon, Github
• Chris Dibona, Director of Open Source, Google
• Jessica McKellar, Python Software Foundation
• Erynn Petersen, Outercurve Foundation, Executive Director

Keynotes, Panels or Breakouts

The following could be either plenary panels or breakout sessions depending on an overall evaluation of their quality. Additionally, stellar individuals might make for a good keynote.

PLACE:

• Andrew Turner, the Chief Technology Officer of Esri R&D Center in Washington, DC.
• Matthew Bloch the New York Times digital mapmaker
• Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships Director of Historypin.
• Deborah Boyer Azavea
• Matthew Knutzen New York Public Library
• Rodrigo Davies, Research Assistant at MIT’s Center for Civic Media on crowdfunding government

• Reflection on advancement of digital preservation practice and tools and other long-range outcomes of development efforts since one of the first NDIIPP-funded projects, such as the Archive Ingest and Handling Test
• Review of what tools exist for digital preservation
• Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations
• Review of how organizations can collaborate and pull resources to achieve their missions
• Online transactions and security—consider a panel on Bitcoin. Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information
• Scientific data and other content at risk of obsolescence, and what methods, techniques, and tools are being deployed to mitigate risk—consider a panel led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI, e.g., Jane Greenberg, John Faundeen, or Chris Muller (mentioned above)
• Lack of digital preservation plans by commercial firms experienced in the deployment and management of DAMs, and lack of an understanding of the value of digital stewardship by executives—perhaps Stephen Wolfram (mentioned above) or David Rosenthal could address this issue in depth
• The right to be forgotten—danah boyd (mentioned above) has addressed this issue somewhat
• The research use of what we are preserving could be an interesting panel. Could include social scientists using twitter and the work at the Hathi Trust Research Center, plus more!

Suggestions from DP13 feedback survey for topics:

• Digital forensics
• Email experts
• Economic models for collaborative preservation
• Commercial digital archiving services
• NSA or other data mining organizations
• Someone from Google, Cisco, Internet Archive
• Someone archiving social media