NDSA:Outreach Mission Action Team
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Description of Work
The “Statement of Purpose” Action Team will explore the high-level mission that drives a digital preservation awareness campaign. What is the dominant message that the NDSA hopes to propagate regarding the preservation of digital information? Are different messages (or variations on a single message) necessary to reach different audiences?
New name and additional work description from 12/10/2010 Outreach meeting minutes:
Statement of Purpose Team, What is the overarching mission, goal and message of this campaign? How will the overarching message be sliced and diced to appeal to different audiences? How will we know when we have succeeded in fulfilling our mission? What overall and far-reaching changes in how digital preservation “operates” in homes, schools and libraries are possible?
Action Team Members
- LEADER: Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library (daniel.cornwall@alaska.gov)
- Pete Watters, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, pwatters@lib.az.us
- Deborah Rossum, SCOLA, drossum@SCOLA.ORG
- Butch Lazorchak, Library of Congress, wlaz@loc.gov
If you are interesting in joining this Action Team, please contact Daniel Cornwall to sign up.
Ideas
This section is a space for people to brainstorm about either what our message should be like or how to go about crafting it.
- Save your memories. Share your memories.
NOTES:
- Any message we put out should have some simple step our audience can take to improve preservation of their resources.
- We will likely need a slightly different message to each target audience.
- It might be better for the message to reflect future gain (you'll be able to have "this" if you act) than future loss (you'll lose "this" if you don't act).
- That said, objects now known to be lost (say, organizations' first websites circa 1992-94) might be effective examples of what's at stake.
- Maybe it's just because I'm paying attention now, but I'm seeing a lot of buzz on personal digital preservation, mostly from LC. Should we distill these tweets, articles, web pages to discern their common message?
Digital Preservation Drivers
NDSA:Digital Preservation Drivers
(Moved the drivers to their own page)
Metaphors
"Next they find a metaphor that connects the motivation to the end goal and develop scenarios to help them create meaning." - Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions, pg. 130
"Smartening up" not "dumbing down."
Not "honing," --> "clarifying."
Actions
If we are successful in getting our message across to people, what do we want them to do?
Nothing
Riot
Think about the issue
Call our toll-free hotline
Learn more
Actively preserve something
Reorganize their hard drive
Buy a product
Give money
Share with their social network
Resources
Made to Stick - Companion website to book Made to Stick about crafting compelling messages.
Examples of articles, tips on personal archives of digital material
Acronis Backup and Recovery video
One man’s experience with a growing digital photo library
“Chronicle of Life” (10MB for $10, TRAC)
JISC Beginner’s Guide to Digital Preservation
NYT article on the Digital Beyond
Why Digital Preservation is Important for You
Library of Congress - Personal Archiving: Preserving Your Digital Memories
Mashable tips on backing up social media
Rolling Stone “Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis”
Rolling Stone sidebar “Five tips on Preserving Your Digital Collection”