NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 11-04-14

NDSA Innovation Working Group Call Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 2pm-3pm ET

In Attendance

• Jane Mandelbaum, LC
• Trevor Owens, LC
• Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
• Michelle Gallinger, Gallinger Consulting
• Emily Reynolds, IMLS
• Maureen Harlow, PBS
• Lauren Work, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Sarah Quimby, Minnesota Historical Society
• Sibyl Schaefer, Rockefeller Archives Center

Next Working Group Meeting

• Tuesday January 6, 2015 (2015, say wha!!!), 2-3pm ET

TL;DR & Action Items

• Folks will email some listservs for Q&A site outreach
• Folks have some interview ideas & plans
• Jefferson to write up short paper ideas for feedback/distro

Recent Conferences/Events of Interest

• 404/Linkrot symposium: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/404/
• DLF: (Community Google Docs): https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#folders/0B9KcGf1gyIuvM3Y3cDJGUHNscTA
• CNI (D.C. Dec 8-9) - Will be a session on 2015 National Agenda -- additional speakers/presenters welcome!
• BRDI Big Data event - http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_152373

Digital Preservation Q&A Site

• Draft outreach message: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pl66QKkZPbqlHD8a8ffZfzzUradHK0AttQjbc2xMTvI/edit
  • Customize as needed
  • Other blog posts to draw from: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/07/digital-preservation-questions-meet-digital-preservation-answers/ | http://lipalliance.org/2014/09/29/questions-and-answers-for-digital-preservation/ | http://qanda.digipres.org/about
• Sign up for a listserv to email and note on doc when done: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pl66QKkZPbqlHD8a8ffZfzzUradHK0AttQjbc2xMTvI/edit

Insights Interviews

• Jefferson - Ian Milligan (maybe digital history macroscope and/or Dragan/Rhizome on WA tool)
• Emily - Bethany Nowviskie
• Lauren - AP Trust / UVA
• Jane - augmented reality person
• In works - Meghan Banach Bergin, Christie Petersen, Ippolito

Short Papers Ideas

• Guidance on Web Archiving
  • 2-3 pages max
  • For a general audience, no jargon
  • Summarizes current practices, current challenges, and how site owners / content creators can make sites archive friendly
  • Would be something that could be handed out to site owners, legislators, and the like
  • Could also be a model for basic, simple, handout-style guidance for other types of born-digital collections: born-digital personal collections, electronic records, etc
  • Jefferson will write up abstract and has a couple of collaborators and will get more via ndsa-all

• Mock Digital Disaster Planning
  • Maybe write up a blog post to help get feedback on framing the idea
  • Pose the questions of if/why that would be useful
  • Idea of coordinating with SAA's MayDay event on disaster planning (http://www2.archivists.org/initiatives/mayday-saving-our-archives) in May 2015 -- could orient delivery date around that
  • Idea of working on the idea/paper/whatever at IIPC (April 2015) and at LC Storage Meeting (Fall 2015)
  • Maureen will help (as possible pre-delivery) and Jane will help behind the scenes
  • Jefferson will write up an abstract, but may need name not on a blog post

Other NDSA Goings-on

• Web Archive Report: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/10/results-from-the-2013-ndsa-u-s-web-archiving-survey/
• Fixity Report: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA-Fixity-Guidance-Report-final100214.pdf