NDSA:Innovation Meeting Minutes 09-09-13

NDSA Innovation Working Group Call Monday September 9, 2013, 2pm-3pm EST

In Attendance

Jane will work to condense questions/bullets from DSI Ideas Challenge guidelines and create short response sections to each set of questions. Will send to group for comment.
Trevor will look into using the NDSA IdeaScale instance for DSI Challenge submissions as far as form-based or template entries. Also look into ability to add images, media therein.
Anne, Matt, Jefferson, Trevor will create sample submissions to test the format.
Jefferson will assemble preliminary list of professors/teachers to ping about DSI Project Challenge being part of grad school coursework. Will send to group for comment.
Multiple people are working on interviews -- see below section.
Jefferson will follow-up with Practical Digital Forensics guide co-authors.

Survey results showed people like both challenges (idea & project) and think each should be done once a year.
Survey agreed on recognition of winners at annual meeting and via blog posts.
Survey comments suggested the number of bullets/questions to address was too high and required writing/application too lenghty. Group agreed to hone these down [Jane will take a first pass then send around to the group].
Group decided the each question (or question set) should have a direct, brief response, similar to Knight style of "issue & 50ish-word response." [Jane will work on linking abbreviated question to specific entry fields]
Group decided they can be announced simultaneously but staggered and scheduled six months apart with a heads-up that DSI-Project will be later/forthcoming.

The DSI-Idea challenge should be first, as it has a lower barrier of entry.
All ideas are eligible including those already grant funded, student-driven, anything.
Using NDSA IdeaScale instance as a platform. Short form and can be voted up and down by public/community. [Trevor will look into using existing IdeaScale instance].
- Current NDSA IdeaScale instance is here: http://ndsa.ideascale.com/
IdeaScale allows for up and down voting as well as comments, advice, notice of potential collaborators, feedback, etc.
Group agreed to all work on sample submission to help hone focus and questions
- [Jane will condense questions with fewer bullets and responses to address each bullet/question(s) -- this will make submission more form-ish. Will pass to group for feedback].
- [Once form is set, Anne, Matt, Jefferson, Trevor (and anyone else that wants to) will do sample submissions to test format].
Make the graphical representation and/or attached media an optional part of submission instead of required. [Trevor will look into if attachments are possible in IdeaScale]

Schedule for six months after Idea challenge
Projects can be in process or not yet started
Idea to tie this in with teaching efforts to have students submit projects
Idea to ping professors sooner rather than later given Spring semester planning, pre-Thanksgiving.
[Jefferson will assemble a list of professors/teachers/programs we know and pass to group for additions.]

For both challenges we will need to work on scheduling to make sure they have time to get apps, feedback, evaluation, and selection all the before NDSA Annual Meeting in July

Anne has an interview with Emily Gore of DPLA. Will send this week!
Jane has an interview with Brian Schmidt, astrophysicist interested in data stuff.
Matt has a potential interview with NARA on digital preservation or electronic records; if can't get clearance or commitment, will maybe ping Trevor and Jefferson for NARA e-recs contacts.
Jefferson has some Levels of Preservation-related interview. Will ping Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz re digital collection in VHP.
Trevor will ping Lisa Greene of Common Crawl (spoke at NDSA meeting) about an interview.

Digital Forensics practical resources & cost list [Marty Gengenback was interested in helping with this. Jefferson will email him].
Digital Preservation Q&A Forum idea [Jefferson needs to email some people about this]

Ping Innovation Group to ask IPres attendees what was cool or interesting as far as innovative work that was discussed or presented in Lisbon.
NDSA National Agenda promotion and outreach is ongoing.