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National Digital Stewardship Alliance

The 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.

NDSA members are working on:

  • 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.
  • [[NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation|Insights Interview Blog Post Series] Members are interviewing people with experience interesting to but outside of the digital preservation field.


Join one of the working groups to learn more:

NDSA:Content Working Group
NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group
NDSA:Innovation Working Group
NDSA:Outreach Working Group
NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group


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


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