November 2, 2011, 11am ET

Attendees

Anderson, Janice Snyder | Georgetown University Law Library | anderjan@law.georgetown.edu
Anderson, Martha | Director, NDIIPP, Library of Congress | mande@loc.gov
Baker, Timothy D. | Maryland State Archives | timb@MDSA.NET
Beers, Elizabeth | University of Michigan Library | embeers@umich.edu
Carpenter, Kris | Internet Archive | kcarpenter@archive.org
Chudnoff, Dan | George Washington University | dchud@gwu.edu
Fallon, Tessa | Columbia University | taf2111@columbia.edu
Fido-Radin, Ben | Rhizome | ben.finoradin@rhizome.org
Grotke, Abbie | Library of Congress, Co-Chair of the NDSA Content Working Group | abgr@LOC.GOV
Hanna, Kristine | Internet Archive | kristine@ARCHIVE.ORG
Hartman, Cathy | University of North Texas/ Co-Chair of the NDSA Content Working Group | cathy.hartman@UNT.EDU
Jones, Gina | Library of Congress | gjon@loc.gov
Johnston, Leslie | Library of Congress | lesliej@loc.gov
Moffatt, Christie | National Library of Medicine | moffattc@mail.nlm.nih.gov
Nacin, Andrew | Wordpress | andrewnacin@gmail.com
Owens, Trevor | Library of Congress | trow@loc.gov
Potter, Abbey | Library of Congress | abpo@LOC.GOV
Reib, Linda | Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records | lreib@LIB.AZ.US
Schmitz Furhrig, Lynda | Smithsonian Institution | SchmitzfuhrigL@si.edu
Smith, Stephanie | Maryland State Archives
Taylor, Nicholas | Library of Congress | ntay@loc.gov
Wurl, Joel | National Endowment for the Humanities | jwurl@neh.gov

(Attendees from NDSA member organizations in bold)

AGENDA

Welcome/Introductions

Attendees introduced themselves and talked about their specific interests in this project.

Brief report on background of this idea

Abbie provided a quick report on how we got to this meeting (referring to the distributed blog proposal). She summed up the three ideas listed in that proposal, but explained that this meeting was to focus particularly on the "Flag for opt-in to preservation and harvesting" idea.

Discussion on #3

Some of the questions received before the meeting included:

If a blog owner opts-in, would that guarantee preservation?
Will blog owners expect backup services if they opt-in?
How do we get notified that blogs have opted-in? Are notices sent somewhere? Some other ideas:
A Google spreadsheet that gets auto-updated; preservationists could refer to and pick and choose what to preserve.
Machine-readable tag that could be used to auto-detect sites that have opted-in (a la creative commons)
A feed of some sort?
How often/frequently would notifications or updates to whatever process we put in place occur?
Is a license/agreement needed?
What sorts of information would we want from the blog owner besides permission? (category/subject? Frequency of change information? Other data?)
Do we want data shared about who is preserving what? If organizations are picking and choosing what to preserve from the available blogs, might be good to have that information available to others (publicly or among NDSA members?)

• Next Steps/Action Items