NDSA:Content Working Group

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Statement of Purpose

The Content Working Group will focus on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with NDSA partners who will acquire the content, preserve it, and provide access to it.

Members

A list of current participants is posted here: NDSA:Content Working Group Members.


How to Get Involved

Contact co-chairs Cathy Hartman (Cathy.Hartman@unt.edu) and Abbie Grotke (abgr@loc.gov) to join the working group or to learn more about how to get involved.

Every member is encouraged to join one or more NDSA:content teams. We encourage all members to participate in the working group in some capacity: whether by calling into a meeting, joining an Action Team and helping with small or large tasks to accomplish Action Team goals, helping take minutes for our meetings, or contributing ideas via the listserv or phone calls. Any contributions are welcome! New members or existing members interested in getting more involved in the Content Working Group should review the current scope of work and action team information below. Contact your co-chairs Cathy or Abbie, or any of the Action Team leads, for more information or to jump right in and participate.

If you have a new idea for an action team or something that the Content Working Group might take on, please offer it up to the group! We want to be doing things of interest to the entire working group.

Scope of Work

NOTE: This, our original scope statement from 2010, is under revision. A NDSA:draft scope is available for discussion at the July 2012 partner meeting.

The Content Working Group’s current scope of work is to:

A) Develop or contribute to a registry of content already preserved by NDSA members.

B) Develop a clearinghouse that will enable a variety of stakeholders (content producers, archives and libraries and other potential preservationists) to:

  • Determine what specific types of content or collections are at risk.
  • Identify at-risk content or collections for preservation.
  • Match orphan collections with appropriate trusted partner for access and preservation.

Message from the Co-Chairs about Restructuring in 2012

See the NDSA:Plan for 2012 page for the message sent to the list January 18, 2012 about restructuring to break into content teams.

Content Teams

See a list of NDSA:content teams and sign up to join one!

Or jump to the Content Team pages directly:

NDSA:About the Content Teams

NDSA:Content Team To-Dos

Prior Activities

Here are links to some prior activities undertaken by the CWG.

Content Registry Action Team

Visit the NDSA:Content Registry Action Team (Group A) page for information. Work on the registry is now on hold, although some related work is being done on the NDSA:Levels of preservation with other working groups.

Clearinghouse Action Team

Visit the NDSA:Clearinghouse Action Team (Group B) page for information about work plans, meetings, and participants.

Appraisal of Local Government Information Action Team

An outcome of the CWG workshop, a need was determined for guidance on appraisal for local government information. This group has since been absorbed into the Government Content Team. http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Content_teams

Blog Preservation Action Team

An outcome of the CWG workshop, an action team was formed to explore the idea of a blog preservation plugin. Visit the NDSA:Blog Preservation page for more information. This project is currently on hold while we explore options other than working directly with Wordpress (that didn't pan out). One option we're investigating is a funded project via IIPC (netpreserve.org).

Web Archiving Survey

A survey of Web Archiving organizations in the U.S. was conduced in October 2011 and results were compiled and published in July 2012. NDSA:Web Archiving Survey links to the report and an addendum with further information for NDSA members.

Meeting Schedule and Minutes

2012 Meetings of the full Content WG Note: Other more regular meetings of the Content Teams will take place; see the NDSA:content teams page for more details.

NOTE: Next two were changed during June call, since we're meeting at end of July in person, pushing next call to September.

  • September 5, 2012 - 11:00AM - 12:00 PM EDT -
  • November 7, 2012 - 11:00AM - 12:00 PM EDT -


2011 Meetings

In 2011, regular Webex meetings were from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET the first Wednesday of each month.

2010 Meetings

Two meetings were held in 2010 to kick-off the Working Group and to develop the charter:

Practices

The group will work and collaborate using the following tools and mechanisms:

  • Listserv: contact Abbie (abgr@loc.gov) to be added or removed. The list archives are available to members (requires login).
  • Regular conference calls/Webex: see meetings section below.
  • Annual conference
  • Wiki: you're here!
  • IdeaScale: http://ndsa.ideascale.com/
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