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This group will plan and launch a set of challenges and/or prizes in to spur innovation in digital preservation. Group members will focus on defining the challenges, promoting them, and exploring ways to identify funding to support challenges if it is determined that funding would be appropriate. The action team will communicate over email and report their work on their wiki page. Email Jane Mandelbaum (jman@loc.gov) if you would like to participate. | This group will plan and launch a set of challenges and/or prizes in to spur innovation in digital preservation. Group members will focus on defining the challenges, promoting them, and exploring ways to identify funding to support challenges if it is determined that funding would be appropriate. The action team will communicate over email and report their work on their wiki page. Email Jane Mandelbaum (jman@loc.gov) if you would like to participate. | ||
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* Digital Story Telling Challenge: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/p/tsdigs.aspx | * Digital Story Telling Challenge: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/p/tsdigs.aspx | ||
* Knight News Challenge: http://www.newschallenge.org/ | * Knight News Challenge: http://www.newschallenge.org/ | ||
Revision as of 09:25, 9 March 2011
This is where this action team will make its plans.
Digital Preservation X-Challenges
Action Team Members
- Micah Beck, University of Tennessee
- Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
- John Spencer, BMS/Chace
- Dean Farrel, State Library of North Carolina
- Micah Altman, Harvard University
- Mike Smorul, University of Maryland
Project Overview
This group will plan and launch a set of challenges and/or prizes in to spur innovation in digital preservation. Group members will focus on defining the challenges, promoting them, and exploring ways to identify funding to support challenges if it is determined that funding would be appropriate. The action team will communicate over email and report their work on their wiki page. Email Jane Mandelbaum (jman@loc.gov) if you would like to participate.
Examples of different prize/challenge models
- Digital Story Telling Challenge: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/p/tsdigs.aspx
- Knight News Challenge: http://www.newschallenge.org/
- X-Prize: http://www.newschallenge.org/
- Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/
- High Performance Computing Challenge: http://www.hpcchallenge.org/