NDSA:December 2, 2015 Meeting Notes

December 2 meeting notes

In attendance

• Oliver Bendorf
• Maureen Harlow
• Margaret Maes
• Edward McCain
• Christie Moffatt
• Abbey Potter
• Michael Stoller
• Lauren Work

Members were asked to consider the following questions in advance of the meeting:

• What activities do you get the most out of? What do you find less useful?
  • Monthly discussions
  • Monthly presentations
  • Signal blog posts
  • Contributing the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Contributing to web archiving survey Reading the wiki Face to face collaboration
  • Opportunity to work on projects with other members Sharing my own work and projects Etc.

• What content related issues would you like to see the CWG bring up or cover that it hasn't?

• What groups or projects should the CWG reach out to?

• What are your questions for DLF and the Library of Congress during the transition?

Feedback (please add!)

Working Group structure

• Discussed idea of smaller NDSA teams forming around specific topics and projects. One challenge mentioned was on how to best coordinate efforts across the organization.
• Support was expressed for cross-working group efforts (with the Standards WG on born-digital workflows, for example)

Activities

• Seemed to be good support for continuing case studies and Signal blog posts (Content Matters interview series)
• Member presentations are helpful and should continue

Focus

• Opportunity to broaden mission/rethink purpose statement
• Continue to support communities forming around subject areas (like born-digital news), but consider how this relates to the broader working group. Format/document type may be another approach to explore further.
• Reach out to the Dodging the Memory Hole group around born-digital news

Communication

• More information about the meetings would help members keep up if they miss a call
• Explore communication tools available via DLF
• Consider opening meeting minutes to a broader community
• Communicate more via listserv