NDSA:Main Page
National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of present and future generations.
Members of the Alliance pledge to work together to make a sustained contribution to digital stewardship action implemented through the working groups. There is no fee for membership, contribution is made though work.
Join with other organizations committed to the preservation of the nation's digital heritage to share expertise, tools and practices to benefit your local efforts while contributing to the stewardship of a grouping national collection of diverse digital content.
You can express your organization's interest in membership at: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/join.php
What do you want to work on? Express your interest or vote for new ideas at: IdeaScale
Current Projects
NDSA:Content Working Group
- NDSA:Content Case Studies share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.
- Geospatial Content
- Science Content
NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group
- NDSA briefing -- present digital preservation projects and challenges that your organization is working through to the NDSA community. Sign up to present during one of the monthly WebEx.
NDSA:Innovation Working Group
- NDSA:Annual Innovation Awards a committee of NDSA members solicits and reviews nominations to give out recognition awards to promote innovative work in the field.
- NDSA:Levels of preservation Members are defining a brief set of guidelines on tiered levels of digital preservation.
- Insights Interview Blog Post Series Members are interviewing people with experience interesting to but outside of the digital preservation field.
- Call for Technical Challenge!
NDSA:Outreach Working Group
- Digital Preservation in a Box
- Kickstarter
- Wayne State Student Chapter Video
NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group
- Format Registry
- Staffing Survey