NDSA:Main Page

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. This wiki is used internally, by its working groups, to share information and facilitate collaboration.

See the NDSA website for public-facing information, including a description of our working groups, major activities, and published resources.

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. As of January 2016, NDSA is hosted by the Digital Library Federation.

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://ndsa.diglib.org/get-involved/

What do you want to work on? Express your interest or vote for new ideas at IdeaScale

Calendar

Please see the public NDSA Calendar for a list of upcoming working group conference calls and presentations at conferences and meetings.

Current Projects

NDSA:Content Working Group

NDSA:Content Case Studies share compelling stories that demonstrate the value of digital preservation in our communities.
NDSA:Content Interview Series on the Signal blog share stories of content being preserved by NDSA members.

Cross-Working Group Projects

NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group

NDSA briefings: present digital preservation projects and challenges that your organization is working through to the NDSA community. Contact working group chairs to present during one of the monthly Webinars.

NDSA:Innovation Working Group

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.
Insights Interview Blog Post Series: Members are interviewing people with experience interesting to but outside of the digital preservation field.
Call for Technical Challenge!