NDSA:Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation
Broadening and Networking the Field of Research in Digital Preservation
Action Team Members
- George Oates, Internet Archive
- Dan Dodge, Thomson Reuters
- Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
Project Overview
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. The action team will communicate over email and report their work on their wiki page. Email Trevor Owens (trow@loc.gov)if you would like to participate.
Format
Text: The group will conduct interviews/conversations over email, a wiki, or Google docs and then share the resulting text interviews through some manner of blog or wiki where they will invite conversation from the broader NDSA community and other interested parties. It might be ideal for this group to get the format and process for this down enough that a NDSA member could use them to play host to a interview/conversation and then this group would put it in the que.
Fields and Projects
- Digital records in medicine. Of particular interest, medical imaging
- Crowdsourcing projects, for example metadata games, Google image labeler, zooniverse
- Open access publishing, for example Public Library of Science
- Data visualization and UI designers interested in cultural heritage projects.
- Data mining approaches and tools for scholars, example Voyeur Tools
- digital archeology/forensics,
- virtualization of programming environments,
- material sciences
Todo
- Draft general introduction paragraph about what we are trying to do here that we can use as text to put contact people for these interview/conversations
- Pull together a set of general questions we can use, or at least a set of general guiding themes for these interview/conversations
- Come up with a pithy name
General Invitation/Introduction Paragraph
New voices in digital stewardship (or whatever better name we decide on) is an attempt by the Innovation Working Group of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) to engage with individuals working on projects related to preservation and discovery and access of digital materials. In this project, NDSA members engage non-members in conversations over email which are then posted for the community to comment on and discuss. The goal of these conversations is to generate innovative ideas for NDSA members and engage new communities in conversations about digital preservation and stewardship.
Guiding Questions
I had a tough time working up questions that could be general enough to work across all of the diverse fields we have discussed. While this set of questions is very general I would hope that it could serve as the basis to start a conversation which would then involve an additional set of questions that focus in on the particular relevant issues in a given context.
- Can you briefly describe your project and the field you are working in?
- What are the most pressing challenges in this work?
- What kind of implications does your project have for preservation, access and discovery of digital objects?
- Based on your work and field what kinds of work would you like to see the digital preservation and stewardship community take on?
Pithy Name Ideas
- Broadening Digital Preservation
- Digital Stewardship Conversations
- New Voices in Digital Stewardship
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Digital Preservation
- Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Digital Preservation