NDSA:Clearinghouse of Digital Preservation Information
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How can the NDSA leverage technology to build a full and complete information resource or provide pointers to a curated list of information sources?
What are existing outlets for disseminating information, concentrating on those that are already successfully providing information about digital preservation, but also exploring interesting, creative venues for spreading the message.
The NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box activity aggregates information, while also linking to marketing and other communication materials.
Some things already exist that are worth exploring:
Digital Curation Exchange
(http://digitalcurationexchange.org/) "The Digital Curation Exchange has been created to serve as a "town center" for the practitioners, researchers, educators, and students of digital curation. Users can create an account and add digital curation events, jobs, resources or questions and discuss what others have shared in the comments section.
The site is designed to provide an environment in which you can engage with a rich digital curation community. More than just a resting place for materials, DCE serves as a starting point for discussions on topics about and for digital curation. This is a free and open space for the exchange of digital curation information, and anyone with an interest in digital curation is welcome to join and participate.
The Digital Curation Exchange is supported by IMLS funds awarded to the Closing the Digital Curation Gap Project (http://ils.unc.edu/gap/index.html) [IMLS Sponsor Award #LG-05-09-0040] and was initiated under the DigCCurr II project (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/aboutII.html) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information & Library Science."
Digital Humanities Now
(see the NDSA Ideascale link at http://ndsa.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Launch-automated-digital-stewardship-innovation--new-journal-/29396-4760) "Digital Humanities Now is a real-time, crowdsourced publication. It takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, projects, tools, collections, and announcements are worthy of greater attention.
Digital Humanities Now is fully automated. It is created by ingesting the Twitter feeds of hundreds of scholars followed by @dhnow (a list of scholars taken from a digital humanities Twitter list), processing these feeds through Twittertim.es to generate a more narrow feed of common interest and debate, and reformatting that feed on http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/, in part to allow for further (non-Twitter) discussions.
Dan Cohen of the George Mason Center for History and New Media made dhnow using Wordpress and the twittertimes algorithm and has offered assistance in setting it up.
The Digital Humanities Questions & Answers (http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/) site could be a model for the type of forum we could set up. Set up "Digital Preservation Questions & Answers" and "staff" it with members of the NDSA Outreach Working Group.
Education Resources
National Calendar of Digital Preservation Courses: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/index.html
Association for Library and Information Science Education: http://www.alise.org/