NDSA:Meeting Minutes 01-27-12

NDSA Innovation Working Group Planning Call: January 27th, 3:00pm, 2012

In attendance

• Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
• Micah Beck, University of Tennessee
• Daniel Dodge, Thomson Reuters
• Barbara Taranto, New York Public Library
• Stephen Abrams, California Digital Library
• Micah Altman, Harvard University
• Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
• Jefferson Bailey, Library of Congress

Overview

This was a quick, focused call that primarily updated group members on the status of ongoing activities, especially the Insights interview series, the Innovation Awards program, and the Google Summer of Code project.

Action Items

Interviews:

• Micah Beck will continue to pursue his interview on performing arts preservation. Barbara suggested he speak with Jan Schmidt at NYPL instead of Doug Reside. She will provide contact info.
• Jefferson will follow-up with Michael Olson at Stanford Digital Forensics Lab. Questions were sent and we're awaiting his response.
• Trevor will work on arranging an interview with the folks at NIST.
• LC will keep an eye out re: the Google SOC announcement.
• Trevor/LC will talk to the IA & Duraspace folks about getting access to their past, successful SOC proposals.
• February call Doodle poll will go the week of 01/30/2012 for a late February call.

Interviews

• Barbara Taranto's interview is completed and submitted to LC and will be posted soon. We'll send out a link to the group once it is up.
• Trevor is going to interview someone from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) re their software registry project.
• An idea was proposed for somehow consolidating or organizing these interview into a publication or promoting or repackaging them in another way.
• General ideas for other interviews included something on the topic of videogame preservation, Keri Kraus at MITH (re her recent NYT op-ed), or Beth Kolko from Harvard/Berkman re her Hackademia project (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/01/kolko).

Awards Action Team

• The Awards program has been created and four broad categories created for recognition: person, project, institution, and future steward or educator. Nominations are open to anyone and anyone can be nominated. More details are available on the project wiki page (http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Annual_Awards_Team).
• The program will be announced soon, and a full promotion & outreach plan is in place. The announcement will be disseminated throughout NDSA and the digital preservation community.

Summer of Code

• We are still awaiting the announcement from Google.
• We have lined up mentors from CHMN, ODEM, Harvard/SafeArchive. Any others?
• The idea was mentioned for assembling the docs from past successful proposals in order to guide our proposals. Duraspace and Internet Archive are two partners that have successfully participated in this program and may be willing to share documentation.

Other

• The Neighborhood Watch idea is still under development. Future group discussion could look at ways to get the ball rolling on that project.
• There was some brainstorming on future Innovation projects, especially around the idea of demonstrating long-term access rather than asserting it, demonstrating capacity, and prototypes for better evangelizing about innovation and risk-taking in digital preservation
• Micah Altman is on the NDSA Coordinating Committee which is meeting soon with the Working Group chairs. If anyone has any suggestions for topics or areas of interest, contact any Working Group chair or Coordinating Committee member.