NDSA:December 2, 2015 Meeting Notes
December 2 meeting notes
In attendance
- Oliver Bendorf
- Maureen Harlow
- Margaret Maes
- Edward McCain
- Christie Moffatt
- Abbey Potter
- Michael Stoller
- Lauren Work
Members were asked to consider the following questions in advance of the meeting:
- What activities do you get the most out of? What do you find less useful?
- Monthly discussions
- Monthly presentations
- Signal blog posts
- Contributing the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Contributing to web archiving survey Reading the wiki Face to face collaboration
- Opportunity to work on projects with other members Sharing my own work and projects Etc.
- What content related issues would you like to see the CWG bring up or cover that it hasn't?
- What groups or projects should the CWG reach out to?
- What are your questions for DLF and the Library of Congress during the transition?
Feedback (please add!)
Working Group structure
- Discussed idea of smaller NDSA teams forming around specific topics and projects. One challenge mentioned was on how to best coordinate efforts across the organization.
- Support was expressed for cross-working group efforts (with the Standards WG on born-digital workflows, for example)
Activities
- Seemed to be good support for continuing case studies and Signal blog posts (Content Matters interview series)
- Member presentations are helpful and should continue
Focus
- Opportunity to broaden mission/rethink purpose statement
- Continue to support communities forming around subject areas (like born-digital news), but consider how this relates to the broader working group. Format/document type may be another approach to explore further.
- Reach out to the Dodging the Memory Hole group around born-digital news
Communication
- More information about the meetings would help members keep up if they miss a call
- Explore communication tools available via DLF
- Consider opening meeting minutes to a broader community
- Communicate more via listserv