NDSA:Innovation Working Group
Statement of Purpose
By encouraging and sharing innovative methods of digital preservation practices and technologies, we plan to distribute, document, and share emerging concepts, while conducting and guiding research and development with engaged partners to find solutions where none exist.
Current Action Team Projects
NDSA:Digital Preservation X-Challenges
Innovation in Digital Preservation Challenges and Prizes This group will plan and launch a set of challenges and/or prizes in to spur innovation in digital preservation. Work will focus on defining the challenges, promoting them, and exploring ways to identify funding to support challenges if it is determined that funding would be appropriate.
NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation
This project will develop a plan to bring individuals outside of the organizations and specialties currently participating in the NDSA, but whose work is relevant to digital preservation, into conversation with the field. Examples of potential related fields include but are not limited to, digital archeology/forensics, virtualization of programming environments, material sciences, and humanities computing. The group will first develop a plan of action and scope to focus on a way to expand the network of individuals and researchers. This team's work might include hosting a set of interviews, dialogs, or talks which could be shared on a blog, as a webinar series, or through some other communications platform.
See NDSA:Future projects for areas for the group to explore at a latter date.
Current Members
A list of current members is posted here: NDSA:Innovation Working Group Members.
Meeting Schedule and Minutes
Action Team Kick Off: March 8, 2010 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 03-8-11
Working Group Charter Discussion: November 5, 2010 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET - NDSA:Meeting Minutes 12-7-10
Practices
- Listserv: for ongoing communication
- Web site: for public dissemination of group’s work
- Monthly conference call: for coordinating ongoing activities
- Wiki: our common work space
Participation
Participation in the Innovation Working Group is restricted to NDSA member organizations. Contact co-chairs Micah Beck or Jane Mandelbaum to join the working group.
Participants in the working group will participate in working group phone calls, undertake tasks to help the working group accomplish goals, and be active in helping accomplish the goals of the working group.
Action Teams may be created around specific tasks. These Action Teams may be self organized by members of the working group and may include non-NDSA members as the work requires. Non-NDSA members will not be participants in the Working Group but may contribute to the activities of any Action Team. Action Teams will update the Working Group about their accomplishments and progress.