NDSA:March 22, 2012

News Team Meeting Minutes

March 22, 2012

Attendees: Lori Donovan (for Kristine), John, James, Cathy, Christie, and Abbie

Call attendees talked a bit about their efforts with news preservation so far;

Cathy talked about the sample content case study sent by email, this represents work they've done at UNT. This one covers eprint/pdf versions of printed newspapers. She talked through the idea of the case study. They've joined some Texas press associations and are attending conferences to reach out. There is interest in the local newspapers in preservation. Big newspapers not as concerned.

Abbie reported on efforts at LC to do a pilot with Newspaper Association of America with our Copyright Office - there is an eprint component but also a web harvesting pilot that has recently happened. LC has also tried in the past to ask permission to archive news sites, but getting permission has been tough.

James reported on activities by CRL to come up with models/approaches to preservation [James, I missed some of the details, can you fill in?]