NDSA:October 24, 2012 Standards Working Group Notes

NDSA Standards and Practices Working Group WebEx meeting notes, October 24, 2012

Attending: Jimi Jones, Andrea Goethals(note taker), Meg Philips, Carol Kussman, Kate Murray, Stephen Davis, Dina Sokolova, Midge Coates, Karen Cariani, Linda Tadic, Kelcy Shepherd, Winston Atkins. (Apologies if I have left anyone out, please feel free to add your name.)

Meeting will be recorded. No objections noted.

The WebEx recording can be found here: TBD

2 new members introduced themselves:

• Kelcy Shepherd, Five Colleges, Inc. / University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Winston Atkins, Duke University Libraries

Jimi reminded us that it this was his last meeting as co-chair and that Kate Zwaard from the Library of Congress would be the next co-chair starting next month. Jimi will continue to participate in the NDSA in the Content Working Group and will attend the Partners meetings.

Staffing Survey Follow up:

• possible article in David Anderson's (Univ. of Portsmouth) new journal
• Christoph Becker is conducting the same survey for a UN members workshop which will primarily have European participants.
• Produce a full report of the results (will aim to produce this by next March). Meg, Andrea (and Carol after the call) volunteered to work on this report.
• Linda will report back on the results of talking about this on an upcoming panel.
• a PDF of the poster was put on the public Standards & Practices WG web page. If anyone would like the poster in a different format/version contact Kate.
• we will want to archive and preserve the survey data, possibly in the ICPSR data repository. Stephen suggested we preserve the poster
• repeat this in a few years (but making changes based on lessons learned from this iteration)
• those who took the survey, and those who worked on it, should jot down what we would want to change fairly soon while it's fresh in our minds

iPRES Conference

• Andrea will send around to the group her conference highlights
• Stephen found the difference between the large web archiving projects and Columbia's experience striking
• Meg found interesting the dynamic between the pure researchers and practitioners, in particular the TIMBUS project brought this to light
• Several liked Andy Jackson's format study. Stephen said this calls into question what exactly obsolescence means.

Wiki Project

• Andrea said that she discussed at a Coordinating Committee call the possibility that we might want help from others in advancing this project to the stage where we could begin publicizing it. (This was based on concern that Columbia is currently shouldering most of the work of this project).
• Stephen and Dina suggested that they continue to work on the revamping of the digital preservation article until December, and that they would flow up a flare when they need help with particular things. They would like us to help review their work. Some things we will need to consider are how much we want to try to keep to our strategy and how much we are willing to let others decide independently of our project.
• Dina and Stephen updated us on their work.