NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 11-04-13

NDSA Innovation Working Group Call Monday November 4, 2013, 2pm-3pm Eastern

In Attendance

• Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
• Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council
• Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
• Matthew McEniry, Texas Tech
• Anne Wootton, PopUp Archive
• Bailey Smith, PopUp Archive
• Edward McCain University of Missouri Libraries
• Micah Beck, University of Tennessee
• Sheila Morrissey, Ithaka
• Mike Ashenfelder, Library of Congress

Next Working Group Meeting

• Monday January 6, 2014, 2-3pm Eastern

Action Items

• Edward will pursue interview about the Public Media Platform
• Mike will look into an interview with NASA
• Jefferson will work on two others (VHP and an Educopia digital newspapers one)
• Matt, Anne, Trevor, Jefferson, Jane (and anyone else!) will put some test DSI Ideas Challenge submissions in the Ideascale site to test the platform. Jefferson will send details.
• Waiting on OPF to put a test Q&A site online. Once up, we will email the WG the link and volunteers can help test that platform.
• Trevor will put together a proposal for getting NDSA approval for organizational commitment to Q&A site. We'll keep WG in loop about other activities around that project.

Innovation Interviews

• Anne had a good one with Emily Gore of DPLA: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/10/digital-stewardship-and-the-digital-public-library-of-americas-approach-an-interview-with-emily-gore/
• Jefferson will submit his completed one with Walker Sampson on e-records
• Action items lists other interview to-dos

Digital Stewardship Innovation Idea Challenge

• Updated and finalized document for "Ideas" challenge is here: https://docs.google.com/a/metro.org/document/d/1guIxvcVox0Bd-2jyoH48dSor9jgfdHIHKh6pfk9U2KA/edit
• Some WG members agreed to submit sample proposals. Jefferson will send an email to WG list with details.
• Deadline for test submissions is end-of-year (?) so we can review them on next call
• On next call we will figure out schedule, outreach, etc, for launching the challenge
• Goal is to present awards at annual NDSA meeting (mid/late July 2014)

Digital Preservation Q&A Forum

• Had a call with multiple WG members, as well as others in the digpres community, including reps from UK and Europe.
• OPF has agreed to set up a Q&A site on their servers. Will do so in the next few weeks and then we will test features/functionality and have another call to plan outreach/promo/launch
• We will seek full NDSA approval of participation in the project and will coordinate outreach and solicit the participation of affiliated organizations
• May be the potential for WG to help host/run/promote events or action teams to help push this project forward.

Other Comments

• Enjoy the upcoming holidays everyone and we will reconvene in 2014!