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National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of present and future generations.

Members of the Alliance pledge to work together to make a sustained contribution to digital stewardship action implemented through the working groups. There is no fee for membership; contribution is made though work.

Join with other organizations committed to the preservation of the nation's digital heritage to share expertise, tools and practices to benefit your local efforts while contributing to the stewardship of a grouping national collection of diverse digital content.

You can express your organization's interest in membership at: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php

What do you want to work on? Express your interest or vote for new ideas at IdeaScale

Calendar

Upcoming Dates

• Mon, 27 Jan, 1:00pm - Standards WG call
• Mon, 27 Jan, 3:00pm - Content WG call on the Web Archiving Survey
• Tue, 28 Jan, 2:00pm - Infrastructure WG call

• Feb. 24 - 27 - IDCC14 NDSA National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Poster Presentation by Helen Tibbo and Micah Altman, in San Francisco, CA.

• Mar. 25 - NERCOMP Digital Curation and Higher Education IT: Lessons from the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship by Micah Altman, Director of Research, Libraries, in Providence, RI.

• Apr. 7 - 9 - 29th Annual Computers in Libraries Levels of Digital Preservation and the 2014 Agenda will be discussed by Butch Lazorchak and Trevor Owens in Washington, DC.

• April 24-26 - 2014 Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting, NDSA National Agenda for Digital Stewardhsip Poster Presentation by Jamie Schumacher in Kansas City, MO.

Current Projects

NDSA:Content Working Group

• NDSA:Content Case Studies share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.
• NDSA:Content Interview Series on the Signal blog share stories of content being preserved by NDSA members.

Cross-Working Group Projects

• Levels of preservation
• Green Bytes: Sustainable Approaches to Digital Stewardship

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

• NDSA briefing -- present digital preservation projects and challenges that your organization is working through to the NDSA community. Sign up to present during one of the monthly WebEx.

NDSA:Innovation Working Group

• NDSA:Annual Innovation Awards a committee of NDSA members solicits and reviews nominations to give out recognition awards to promote innovative work in the field.
• NDSA:Levels of preservation Members are defining a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.
• Insights Interview Blog Post Series Members are interviewing people with experience interesting to but outside of the digital preservation field.
• Call for Technical Challenge!

NDSA:Outreach Working Group

• NDSA:Outreach Toolkit (NDSA informational resources for presentations, reports, papers, etc.)
• NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box
• Kickstarter Curated Pages
• NDSA:Organizational Outreach

Standards and Practices Working Group

• Digital Preservation WikiProject. This is the Signal blog post that talks about the project and links to the WikiProject page.
• NDSA:Staffing Survey

Completed Projects/Activities

NDSA:Content Working Group

• NDSA:Web Archiving Survey

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

• NDSA:Cloud Presentations
• NDSA:Qualitative Storage Questions
• NDSA:Infrastructure Storage Survey

NDSA:Innovation Working Group

• NDSA:Summer of code
• NDSA:Storage ping

Other Related Activities

Digital Preservation Meeting

• DP 2014