NDSA:Organizational Outreach

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During the call of 12/12/11 there was a discussion on how the NDSA Outreach WG can facilitate connections to other organizations that have an interest in digital preservation.

This would include traditional library and archive organizations such as the American Library Association (ALA) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), but might also include industry associations such as NASCIO and NCSL, vendor associations such as AIIM or the Open Geospatial Consortium, and others.

Our task is to identify the most important organizations to connect with, and to identify what we want from those organizations and also what we have to offer. We'll begin to sort out each of these lists on the listserv, with the goal of having this be completed by early 2012 so we can begin the active outreach.

The "Ask"

What are the five things we want to ask each organization to do?

The "Offer"

What are the five things the NDSA can offer to each organization?

• We can offer to bestow the title of "strategic NDSA partner" on an organization that we have a relationship with (what would this entail?)