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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!

We have roughly 9 plenary slots. These could be either solo keynotes or panels. The first two slots on the first day should probably be keynotes and should be rock starts.

We have 3 different sections of breakouts, with roughly 6 different concurrent sessions planned, for a total of 18 breakout sessions.

The list below is for individuals to be either a keynote or to lead a panel discussion (mostly keynote) Farther down there are draft potential sessions.

Consider Strongly

• Jennifer Pahlka, invited on 2/24. Strata Conference Video
• Cole Crawford, Open Compute Project Foundation Executive Director, to talk about the power of community-driven innovation, confirmed he is available to speak on 7/22

• Shannon Mattern, Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. She has written a lot of great stuff on libraries as spaces and infrastructure and has recently been teaching some amazing classes on digital archives http://www.wordsinspace.net/digital-archives/2014-spring/ You can see her participating in a panel here http://vimeo.com/9650676 (jump to 5:40). Butch +1

• Cory Doctorow, author, co-editor of BoingBoing. Video of this LC presentation.

• Rick Prelinger of the Prelinger Archive | presentation

• Yael Garten, senior data scientist LinkedIn Strata 2013 conference video
• Kate Crawford, Microsoft Research. We could ask her talk about researcher use of data. She also works with Danah Boyd. Watch vid here.

• Jonathan Zittrain Wikipedia article, TED talk 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
• Mathew Kirschenbaum on Software Registry
• Margaret Gould Stewart: YouTube's head of user Experience gave a really compelling talk about how YouTube thinks about Copyright
• Steven Morales, Director, Digital Preservation Network

• Steve Coast, Founder, OpenStreetMap Presentation

• Arfon Smith, Director of Citizen Science, Adler Planetarium, and Technical Lead for The Zooniverse interview -- could also be part of a collaboration or crowdsourcing panel
• Jessica McKellar, Python Software Foundation
• Jay Parikh is the VP of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, but inviting him to talk about the Open Compute Project. Here’s his keynote from a conference last year. He touched a little on scaling data centers, so we maybe we could get him interested in our digigreen panel from last year and comment on it.

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29558

Need to Research More

• Chris Dibona, Director of Open Source, Google
• Erynn Petersen, Outercurve Foundation, Executive Director
• Scott Chacon, Github
• O'Reilly folks such as Sarah Milstein and Sarah Novotny.
• Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab Vimeo
• Beth Kolko, her ideas about hackademia are really interesting. The whole idea of functional engineers is rather compelling [1]
• Katie Dowgiewicz, or someone from Cornell, to talk about Yiddish Translation project collaboration with Warwick University [2]
• Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Presentation, TED Talk
• Gil Elbaz, CEO, Factual Presentation
• Sriram Kosuri -- data DNA storage TED
• Jake Porway -- DataKind -- Strata Keynote, PopTech talk
• Maria Papova Brainpickings.org, author
• Lev Manovich, Director, Software Studies Initiative, University of California, San Diego YouTube
• George Oates, Art Director at Stamen Design. Formerly at Internet Archive and Flickr
• Mary Flanagan game designer metadata games article
• Katie Salen, game designer
• Doug Cutting creator of Hadoop
• Joel Selanikio, CEO of DataDyne; see a brief YouTube interview regarding the social impact of affordable technology ; [3] local
• CBS, NatGEO, Albert Yu-Min Lin
• Sarah Parcak, space archeology
• Jason Griffey, Associate Professor/Head of Library Information Technology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Blogger, doing lots of interesting stuff
• Jane McGonigal
• Somebody from Library License

OK But Not Quite

Potential speakers who have been invited, but cannot attend

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

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
• Mikel Maron, OpenStreetMap, spearheading OSM historic efforts

Software Preservation

• Recreate the panel from the NDIIPP briefing on Preserving .EXE report
• Matt Kirshenbaum
• NIST folks
• LC software curator

Revisiting Archive Ingest and Handling Test:

• Old Dominion (Michael Nelson)
• Johns Hopkins University (Sayeed Choudhury or Tim DiLauro)
• Stanford University
• Harvard University (Stephen Abrams, now at CDL)
• 9/11 Archive at George Mason

Digital Preservation Tools Overview:

• Bagit
• LC CTS
• also could include inadvertent preservation tools like Github (ask Ed Summers/Trevor)

Preserving Digital News

• Greg Price from Newsdiffs and YouTomb (could also be under Web Archiving panel)
• Jacob Harris, NY Times
• Mine NICAR site

BIG DATA:

• Jerry Johnston, Geospatial Information Officer, Dept of Interior. Geospatial Platform to host BD
• Yael Garten, senior data scientist LinkedIn Strata 2013 conference video
• Alyssa Henry (Amazon Web Services) 2.0 Summit
• Doug Cutting creator of Hadoop
• LC - Carl Watts or NavCC
• someone from NASA about their code.nasa.gov or nebula cloud computing platform [4]
• NCAR rep to talk about Community Data Portal and/or Chronopolis/iRODs distributed storage (PI Don Middleton does sport a great beard!
• NARA - ask Meg Phillips who is the BD person at Archives II. Perhaps Margaret O. Adams, Supervisory Archivist, Archival Electronic Records Operations, National Archives and Records Administration
• SDSC - Brian Schottlaender or David Minor
• UMD - Mike Smorel or Joseph JaJa
• ICPSR - George Alter
• JHU - Tim DiLauro
• USGS - ask Richard Huffine who is the BD person

Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations:

• Kate Zwaard, LC
• Other peeps who have to manage developers and have a "real" view of what managing these projects means

Archiving social media

• Facebook
• Google Data Liberation
• LinkedIN
• Aaron Cope on Flickr tools and other tools etc.
• Pinterest -- NYPL is on pinterest so we could probably get a contact through them
• youtube
• foursquare
• twitter (?)

Collaboration:

• DPLA
• Digital Preservation Network (DPN) (might even consider giving them a plenary---see above)
• organizations or projects using technology platforms or social advocacy methods to collaborate for access to open data for the public good. (AKA Erin's attempt at an all-local panel.)
• Ellen Miller, executive director Sunlight Foundation
• Jerry Johnston, Geospatial Information Officer, Dept of Interior. Geospatial Platform to host BD
• Eric Gundersen, CEO Mapbox presentation bio

Preserving Digital Audio

• John Spencer from BMS/Chace
• Maureen Droney from the Academy
• Authors of LC Recorded Sound report (Sam Brylawski? Very entertaining speaker)
• Someone from DDEX
• More info at [5]

Scientific Data At-Risk:

• led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI (Don Hagen)
• Jane Greenberg
• John Faundeen
• Chris Muller

Data Management Plans

• NSF data management plans
• CDL data management plan tool
• NIH data management plans
• NARA

File Format Action Plans

• NARA: Arian, Kevin Devorsey, Don Chalfant
• Lee from LC

Web Archiving Panel

• usual suspects

Personal Digital Archiving

• selection of the best presentations from PDA 2014 in Indianapolis

Digital forensics:

• MITH

Crowdsourcing

• From Andrew Turner: panels on Crowdsourcing, particularly perhaps Geo-crowdsourcing. I'm thinking a discussion like for OSM, particularly Mikel Maron (local in DC, founder of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap). He helps impoverished communities work with OSM such as the Kibera slums in Nairobi, or citizens of Myanmar, Philippines, etc. If citizens & hackers are gathering their own data who is thinking about how this is preserved (each iteration) as well as to ensure they don't go back to a blank map?

The hardest digital content to preserve

• Rhizome
• Ben Fino-Radin from MOMA
• Games
• the hardest things!

Levels Workshop

• breakout session most likely and do a "Levels of Preservation" workshop
• John Faundeen on USGS levels activity
• Andrea Goethals, Harvard
• Meg Phillips, NARA

Cloud Computing as part of Stewardship Infrastructure

• Duracloud
• Amazon Glacier
• Gail Truman and Nancy Silver's thing

The LOLs of Nations: Understanding Global Memes

• Ben Valentine (soon to be a resident at the Internet Archive. Build off of the discussion at this SXSW panel.

Towards a Proposal for Digital Preservation Testbeds

• Building on a "research question" from 2014 National Agenda, what needs to be done to develop a digital stewardship testbed (or testbeds)

Commercial digital archiving services:

• ArchiveMatica
• Preservica

Linked Open data

• Ed Summers
• Jon Voss, Historypin

Education Panel

• NDSA Standards folks to talk about the Staffing Survey and next steps
• Representative of ALISE
• Archival education person such as Helen Tibbo
• Somebody in a library school that runs a digital stewardship certificate program (like Simmons College

Speculative Future

• Could do another thing with farther out ideas

Panel on "outside" efforts

• Data Conservancy (and other NSF-funded things)
• What are some other big digital preservation things that weren't funded by NDIIPP?
• NSF Datanet programs

Research uses of Preserved Digital Content:

• social scientists using twitter
• the work at the Hathi Trust Research Center
• Digital Afterlife folks
• issues around pages of the deceased on social media

A Panel of Digital Preservation Pioneers

• to reminisce about the good old days

Gaps Discussion: Where are the gaps in digital stewardship and how can we address them?

• sustainability
• infrastructure
• technology
• funding

NDSA Reports Panel

• A breakout to explain and discuss the implications for different NDSA reports released over the year. Geospatial appraisal and selection, Staffing Survey, PDF/A-3 report, etc.

Preserving Email:

Digital Preservation Plans in Commercial Firms:

• Stephen Wolfram
• David Rosenthal

The right to be forgotten, opting out of digital preservation infrastructures:

• Danah Boyd issues (though not her because she can't come)
• opting out of LC twitter archive?

Online Transactions and Security:

• Bitcoin.
• Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information
• Andreas Antonopoulos from O'Reilly

Economic models for collaborative preservation:

The NSA as a digital preservation organization: