NDSA:Meeting Minutes 5-24-12

Agenda/notes

Attendees: Kim Shroeder, Deb Rossum, Carol Minton Morris (rec.)

• Beyond video: are there other ways to collect/distribute data loss and/or preservation and access stories?

• As Kickstarter curators we have all noticed that the projects we curate get funded quickly, and are generally about initiatives that are larger than a single project and about the kinds of things we want to tell stories about. Should we be digging deeper and telling the stories "under" our curated KS projects in a more in-depth way?

• Should we be thinking of alternative storytelling methods (beyond video)?

• Linking current events to data loss and salvation concepts could be something that a student group would be interested in.

• Student PSA video projects underway, Kim Schroeder

Kim Schroeder is leading a student team in an effort to create a series of PSA-type videos. The project is well underway

• A series of 3 PSA-type videos will be presented at the NDSA Conference in July in three categories: documents, video/audio, imagery

• Short n sweet stylistically

• Goal is to show how fragile digital is and use humor to tell stories

• An inventory on YouTube uncovered some very dry examples of P & A-related videos

• There are separate research and writing teams working on each video.

• Goal is to get feedback at the conference from NDSA Outreach and others, build out a budget, and launch a fundraising effort on Kickstarter to fund a longer video data loss stories project.

• Kim will send final scripts to this group for feedback/advice.

• NDSA brand will be used depending on feedback from OWG.

• First idea was to use a grandparent-figure to tell the story; now they want to do a little goofier; horror or a vampire kind of thing.