NDSA Innovation Working Group Call Monday May 19, 2014, 2pm-3pm Eastern

In Attendance

Next Working Group Meeting

A bunch of people have interviews in the works -- nice work everyone!
Innovation Awards are awarded! http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/05/software-digital-art-data-curation-archives-the-2014-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/
There will be an Innovation WG-led session at Digital Preservation 2014 (DP14) to seed the Digital Preservation Q&A site: http://qanda.digipres.org/
There will be an Innovation WG informal meet-up, happy hour-ish, Tuesday July 22 at DP14. Invitation will be sent to WG!

All - save the date for informal Innovation Happy Hour meet & greet & drink on Tuesday July 22 at DP14. Details will be sent.
Co-chairs need to work with DP14 planners to get Q&A session time set to try to include UK folks.

Chelcie - Director of Digital Scholarship at Haverford collaborating with Econ prof to preserve data from student-driven project. Data mgmt/preservation angle.
Matt - Bob Spengler of NARA on electronic records transfer
Jane - costume archiving with person from NEA conference
Jane - Bill Denton on augmented reality and archiving
Anne/Bailey - NewsApps interview, probably Scott Cline from ProPublica
Jefferson - Meghan Banach Bergin on her digital preservation policy survey

Done! Thanks to Sheila, Chelcie, and Matt for being on the review panel
Winners: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/05/software-digital-art-data-curation-archives-the-2014-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/
Received the best batch of nominations so far (3rd year)
The awards will be handed out during lunch on Tuesday July 22 at DP14

Located here: http://qanda.digipres.org/
People have just started using it, so have at it
We have an Innovation WG-sponsored session at DP14 where we will add existing Qs and As from zombie Stack Exchange, google group, others
Sheila has given us a name for this event: Coffee, Bagels, and Queries!
Co-chairs and any volunteers will work on formalizing a process for this
It may have to be an early afternoon session, though, due to DP14 schedule
We will continue to add new content under the radar
We will ping NDSA-All about the session once it is formalized
Down-the-road ideas: twitter hashtag? Auto-tweet out new questions?

DSII: http://dsii.ideascale.com/
Some ideas, not a whole lot -- please add if you have any
Great idea to interlink the Q&A site and the Challenge IdeaScale, i.e. issues that come up in one can be seeded into the other
Not sure this will be ready for DP14 - maybe a slow boil

Official NDSA Communications Officer position is in the works! Approved by Coordinating Committee. More details soon.
New member "onboarding" process is being formalized.
2015 National Agenda is coming together. Last chance for input - draft previously sent, contact co-chairs if you have input. The doc will be presented to funders and big-wig types in a special meeting at DP14.
Outreach WG is forming an education sub-group if anyone is interested.
A Web Archiving survey report is in the works and will be sent around for comment in June. Jefferson is helping write and will send to Innovation WG for feedback if it doesn't go to NDSA-All

Archiving 2014 - Interesting, but needs to transition away from the hardware specs and imaging stuff to thinking more about preservation challenge. Good presentations on born-digital architectural records and bwFLA emulation stuff, but needs a reboot overall
ARSC - Good project on Guyana Media Project and rapid mobile assessment of endangered collections
Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute - (co-taught by Innovation Award winner Trevor Munoz) Had a strong digital preservation focus - great course!