NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 03-04-13

NDSA Innovations Working Group Call Mar 04, 2013 2pm-3pm

In Attendance

Prepare the page (change dates on existing page) and get people to start nominating
Trevor: nominated the Pop-up Archive
The WG should announce that we are looking for nominations
Old list had decent bit of nominations but a lot
Trevor and Ricky will update list
Important to remember that nominees should still be alive
Purpose of the Awards is to nominate projects from different fields or people that don’t already have many awards. People who normally wouldn't come to our attention

Interviews: Ongoing, Sheila SCAPE and DPC event. William Kilbride, Scape Project. Preservation at scale. All of interest.
Jefferson sent Jason Scott questions. Awaiting response.

Exciting research topics: up on the Draft version of the agenda on the wiki.
Jane has been doing research to see what research is on digital preservation. Used Google scholar, not journal aggregates.

Speaker series: Funders idea discussed with analogy of speed dating
SWAT: Conversations on this, around the NYPL space.
- Lots of agreement that this would be a good thing to do – media archeology lab in NYPL collaborate with metro. Possibility to do this out at long island city location. Possibility for NYU ITP and or CUNY. Pratt’s campus (Might be a good idea to separate out getting the work done in NYPL’s long island place, and having smaller space at NYPL for public programming.)
- Should look for alternatives of NYPL as space provider (speak to Don about this)

Last mentioned 10 months ago
Move of private beta and into public
Already has near 70 questions
WG asked to think of ways to get more people involved
- Possibility is to incentivize like an invite get to go to a conference or we interview that person
WG should think of different listservs that could add to this and send it to them
- Some lists are TADA, Photographers association, SNIA, ELDB, and AMIA
Suggested that we advertise to people in DAM works (including students), science data management, and traditional conservation preservation community.
See if Lori Emerson and more Digital Humanities people can pass it around

Partnership with e-recycling to buy old hardware off them really cheap
Think of new digital preservation pedagogical work (it would be hypothetical work to then be applied)
- Wait for after the agenda
- WG has heard discontent about digital preservation grad programs. Area could need some innovation