NDSA:DP 2014

Program Committee

• Vickie Allen, PBS Media Library
• Meghan Banach Bergin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Vivek Navale, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
• Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University
• Nicole Scalessa, The Library Company of Philadelphia
• Erin Engle, LC
• Butch Lazorchak, LC
• Barrie Howard, LC
• Abbie Grotke, LC
• Abbey Potter, LC
• Trevor Owens, LC
• Michelle Gallinger, LC

Conference Calls and Minutes

Conference Call, Monday January 6, 2014 NDSA:DP14 Meeting Notes 14-01-06

Important Dates

DRAFT dates

1. January 6 : Program Committee Kick-off Call
2. TBD : Program Committee Calls
3. March 3: CFP announced
4. April 14: Deadline for CFP and Begin Proposal Review
5. May 2: Complete Proposal Review
6. May 5-6: Notification of proposal acceptance
7. May 7: Open Registration and publish draft agenda
8. June 30 : Close registration, unless reach maximum capacity at an earlier date
9. July 21 : Meetings on-site @LC
10. July 22-23 : Main Meeting
11. July 24 : CurateCamp

NDSA:Potential Speakers and Topics

Speakers

• Henry Rollins
• Jonathan Zittrain
• James Boyle
• Chris Muller
• danah boyd
• David Giaretta, Director, Alliance for Permanent Access
• Seamus Ross, Dean of iSchool, University of Toronto
• Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder, reddit and Open Internet advocate
• Folks from the Digging Into Data projects

Topics

• Reflection on advancement of digital preservation practice and tools and other long-range outcomes of development efforts since one of the first NDIIPP-funded projects, such as the Archive Ingest and Handling Test
• Review of what tools exist for digital preservation
• Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations
• Review of how organizations can collaborate and pull resources to achieve their missions
• Online transactions and security—consider a panel on Bitcoin. Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information
• Scientific data and other content at risk of obsolescence, and what methods, techniques, and tools are being deployed to mitigate risk—consider a panel led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI, e.g., Jane Greenberg, John Faundeen, or Chris Muller (mentioned above)
• Lack of digital preservation plans by commercial firms experienced in the deployment and management of DAMs, and lack of an understanding of the value of digital stewardship by executives—perhaps Stephen Wolfram (mentioned above) or David Rosenthal could address this issue in depth
• The right to be forgotten—danah boyd (mentioned above) has addressed this issue somewhat