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
Calendar
Please see the public NDSA Calendar for a list of upcoming working group conference calls and presentations at conferences and meetings.
http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/calendar.html
Current Projects
NDSA:Content Working Group
- NDSA:Content Case Studies share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.
- NDSA:Content Interview Series on the Signal blog share stories of content being preserved by NDSA members.
Cross-Working Group Projects
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 Webinars.
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.
- NDSA:Call for Technical Challenge! http://dsii.ideascale.com/
NDSA:Outreach Working Group
- NDSA:Outreach Toolkit (NDSA informational resources for presentations, reports, papers, etc.)
- NDSA:Digital Preservation in a Box
- Kickstarter Curated Pages
- NDSA:Organizational Outreach
Standards and Practices Working Group
- Digital Preservation WikiProject. This is the Signal blog post that talks about the project and links to the WikiProject page.
- NDSA:Staffing Survey