NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 07-08-13

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NDSA Innovations Working Group Call Monday July 8, 2013, 2pm-3pm EST

In Attendance

  • Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
  • Micah Altman, MIT
  • Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council
  • Shelia Morrissey, ITHAKA
  • Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
  • Matthew McEniry, Texas Tech
  • Anne Wootton, PopUp Archive
  • Bailey Smith, PopUp Archive
  • Lily Pregill, NYARC

Action and/or in-the-works Items

  • Trevor has an upcoming interview with USGS on the Levels of Preservation
  • Jefferson is finishing up an interview with Jason Scott
  • Anne & Bailey will interview Emily Gore of DPLA at #digpres13
  • Matt is working on an interview with NARA
  • Jane has Theo Lindquist & Brian Schmidt interviews in the works
  • Jefferson will report back on the digital stewardship curriculum panel at #digpres13 and Trevor will write up something on the Kickstarter idea
  • Jane and Trevor will work on refining the challenge idea and hold an off-month call
  • Jefferson will work on scheduling a call on a digital preservation Q&A forum site -- Sheila, Matt, & Trevor will also be on the WG team for this
  • Jefferson & Trevor will get some folks together to write a Levels in Use paper
  • Potential informal Innovation WG meet-up during happy hour on Tuesday at #digpres13 (agenda item: buy your co-chairs a drink -- just kidding!)

Next Working Group Meeting

  • Monday September 9, 2-3pm EST
  • First Monday of Sept. is a holiday so note our call will be on the 9th!

Innovation Awards

Innovation Interviews

  • Pending interviews are noted above
  • A reminder that anyone is welcome to do an interview. The project google doc has all the information you need including examples, ideas, and sample questions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVLg5yBBkzNa5moriTaKB7w8MwEYnEmYJ5eYGXf9EN8/edit

  • #digpres13 might be a good place to corral folks for interviews if you see an interesting project or presentation

Digital Stewardship Curriculum

  • Jefferson will report back on the digital stewardship curriculum panel at #digpres13
  • Trevor will write up Kickstarter idea
  • We will discuss potential outcomes on the next call

Levels in Use

  • There have been a lot of recent examples of folks using the Levels of Preservation guidance. Let's talk to them and write a white paper about it!
  • Some noted use cases: Rhizome, USGS, ARTstor, Metaarchive (newspaper project), Vienna University of Technology (Meg/Andrea talked to them)
  • Ping NDSA-All asking for additional use cases
  • Jefferson will work on getting a list of use cases and a team together to do some interviews and turn it into a paper.

Digital Stewardship Innovation Challenge

  • Lots of challenges out there these days (x-challenge; supercomputing challenge); bar is low enough (threshold attainable) to make this open-ended and doable
  • Write-up of the idea was sent around to the list, pre-call
  • Would be an ongoing challenge, with evolving areas of focus
  • Could combine jury with Innovation Awards jury/team
  • Entries are written up as short papers about how people are running with the challenge
  • The difference between this and the award the challenge is ideally about spurring new work instead of recognizing work that happened already
  • Other difference is it is research/project based, not people based like Inno Awards
  • Needs to contain a picture or graphical representation
  • Would be wise to link challenges directly to topic areas in the forthcoming National Agenda document (or a subset of 3-4 of those topics)
  • Challenge should spur work in certain areas; work/projects are positioned in response to challenge
  • Challenge award can help projects get funding
  • We (NDSA Innovation WG) are explicitly issuing the challenge
  • Iteration question: could larger projects "check-in" at certain scheduled deadlines?
  • Time question: how often is the challenge issued?
  • Scope question: how conceptual/idea oriented vs. how a demonstrable finished project oriented; "proposed" research or "proof of concept"?
  • Scope question: ideation or prototype?
  • Lead time question: depends on scoping; frequency will depend on what sort of requirements or level of completion we expect of submissions
  • Narrowness was a problem with this idea in the past
  • Jane and Trevor will refine elements and schedule an off-month call to hone idea

Digital Preservation Q&A Forum

  • After the death of the Digital Preservation Stack Exchange (and the LIS one too), there has been widespread community interest in finding another platform for hosting a Q&A site.
  • Some folks at NDSA-NYC meeting were interested in chipping in on this effort.
  • There has been twitter chat with UK & European folks also interested in this effort (for those interested Andy Jackson has created "zombie" versions of the now-defunct sites: http://anjackson.github.io/zombse/)
  • There has also been talk on the Code4Lib listserv about the DP or LIS SE sites
  • Jefferson will contact all the interested parties (NYC, Innovation folks, UK/Euro folks) and arrange a skype/call/whatever to figure out next steps and a plan-of-action

National Agenda document

  • Will be released in conjunction with #digpres13 on July 23.

NDSA/NDIIPP Summer Meeting

  • July 23-25 - last day will be CurateCamp Exhibition
  • Innovation WG happy hour potential after the poster session on Tuesday.

Next Working Group Meeting

  • Monday September 9, 2-3pm EST
  • First Monday of Sept. is a holiday for note our call will be on the 9th!
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