NDSA:Meeting Notes
NDSA Meeting May 6, 2015
Attendees:
- Maureen Harlow
- Rachel Howard
- Edward McCain
- Gail McMillan
- Christie Moffatt
- Abbey Potter
- Abby Smith Rumsey
- Imogen Smith
- Lauren Work
iPRES conference (Nov. 2-6, Chapel Hill, NC) panel proposals due May 15
Ideas for proposals:
- Ed McCain suggested a panel on born-digital news preservation
- also a suggestion for a panel on work with content creators
- Gail would like to help but not attending iPRES
- email will be sent to CWG listserv to solicit additional ideas and participants
NDSA transition
- RFP issued May 1-June 30, 2015 for a planned transition to a new host by September 30, 2015.
- working groups will continue through transition
- members encouraged to share comments, concerns, suggestions for hosts, and questions
- A question was asked about any proposals received. As of May 6, only inquiries have been made.
Member news
- LC released new access interface to web archive collections
- Ed McCain shared information about a research project to assess the value/utility of born-digital news. Campus focus groups (at the University of Missouri) will followed by a survey. Ed will share updates at a later meeting.
Member presentation: Imogen Smith, Dance Heritage Coalition
- Recently received a Knight Foundation Prototype Fund Grant
- goal to provide links between born-digital performance media and related writings
- beginning with in-person outreach to producers and users of the resources
- locating and ingesting content; some content is feely available online and some are not
- diverse array of content and formats
- 6 months to see what can be produced
- looking for feedback!
- Abbey Potter suggested webrecorder.io (https://webrecorder.io/) might be a useful tool to explore
Next CWG meeting will be Wednesday, June 3 at 11 a.m. EST