NDSA:Content teams

Click on the content team name for more information about each group.

NDSA:Big Picture Group

Co-facilitator: Grotke, Abbie | Library of Congress, and Co-Chair of the NDSA Content Working Group | abgr@LOC.GOV

Co-facilitator: Hartman, Cathy | University of North Texas/ Co-Chair of the NDSA Content Working Group | cathy.hartman@UNT.EDU

As much of the effort of the Content Working Group breaks down into specific format- and genre-focused teams, the purpose of the “Big Picture Team” is to provide a venue for continued discussion of the broader perspective on content preservation. On the one hand the group will observe the work of the specific action teams and look for gaps not being covered or natural alliances between the activities of various teams. On the other hand the group will seek to place the work of the Content teams within the larger context of NDSA’s mission and of activities taking place beyond NDSA.

NDSA:Government Content Team

Facilitator: McAninch, Glen | Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives | Glen.McAninch@ky.gov

The Government Content Team is interested in the preservation of U.S. local, state, federal born. The focus of the group is to identify best practices for all phases of the lifecycle of government records from creation, appraisal, guidance on formats, transfers of records along with their provenance and individual file content metadata, ingest and processing transfers into the archives, description of records, archival storage, versioning, risk assessment and planning, preservation actions like making transformations, and enabling access digital content.

NDSA:Geospatial

Facilitator: Abrams, Brett | National Records and Archives Administration | Brett.Abrams@nara.gov

The Geospatial Content Team is interested in exploring challenges and solutions to the long-term preservation, stewardship and accessibility of digital mapping information.

NDSA:News, Media, and Journalism

Facilitator: Hanna, Kristine | Director, Archiving Services, Internet Archive / kristine@archive.org

The News, Media, and Journalism Content Team is interested in the preservation of national, local, regional news, citizen journalism and community news, whether eprints or websites of news organizations.

NDSA:Science, Mathematics, Technology and Medicine

Facilitator: Moffatt, Christie | National Library of Medicine | moffattc@mail.nlm.nih.gov

The Science, Mathematics, Technology and Medicine Content Team is interested in the preservation of blogs, citizen science, educational games, forums, more. . .

NDSA:Social Sciences

Facilitator: Lyle, Jared | University of Michigan/Data-PASS | lyle@umich.edu

The Social Sciences Content Team is interested in the preservation of social science data.

NDSA:Cultural Heritage

Co-facilitator: Sternfeld, Joshua | National Endowment for the Humanities | JSternfeld@neh.gov

Co-facilitator: Truman, Gail | Truman Technologies | gail@trumantechnologies.com

The Cultural Heritage Content Team is interested in the preservation of ...

As of June 2013, NDSA:Arts & Humanities merged with NDSA:Cultural Heritage

Groups thought about but not currently active

These groups were discussed but at the time of the content group formation, there were not enough interested members. If people would like to kickstart these, please let Cathy or Abbie know!

• Religion and Philosophy
• Business and Economics
• Politics and Law
• Education: ideas about what it could be:
  • The Education Content Team is interested in the preservation of the broad and wide ranging materials such as course syllabi, eportfolios, ETDs, but also resources on topics such as teaching, pedagogy. Shouldn't we be concerned about what's going on in the evolving arena of technology-enhanced learning that needs preserving?
  • K2grey is probably (;>) too broad, but could use a variety of perspectives beyond the higher ed, e.g., museum education programs, and could even involve tourism.

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