NDSA:Potential Speakers and Topics

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Speakers and Themes

Keynote Ideas

• Margaret Gould Stewart: YouTube's head of user Experience gave a really compelling talk about how YouTube thinks about Copyright
• Jonathan Zittrain Wikipedia article, see also
  • Berkman Center for Internet & Society site
  • Abstract regarding JCDL 2006 keynote on redaction, identity vs. privacy, etc.
  • Cathy Marshall's blog post regarding above keynote
• James Boyle Wikipedia article, see also
  • Duke Law School webpage
  • D-Lib Magazine article referencing Boyle's JCDL 2003 keynote on Creative Commons and the public domain
• Carol Goble, see also JCDL 2012 keynote on workflow and e-science, etc.
• Chris Muller
• David Giaretta, Director, Alliance for Permanent Access
• Seamus Ross, Dean of iSchool, University of Toronto
• Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder, reddit and Open Internet advocate
• Folks from the Digging Into Data projects
• Cathal Gurrin, Lecturer, Dublin City University and life logger
• Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Interactive Computing, Associate Professor and wearable computing pioneer
• Steve Mann, the father of wearable computing
• Gordon Bell, MyLifeBits experimental subject computer scientist
• Martin Källström, CEO, Narrative, a tiny, wearable, automatic camera and app that gives you a searchable and shareable photographic memory
• Hampapuram K. Ramapriyan, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, who can provide a talk on " Preservation Data for earth Science"
• John Faundeen, USGS Archivist, who can provide archival data management practices, policies, and standards for the USGS
• Steve Del Reco, who developed NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit, and can talk about the digital preservation of climate data
• Margaret Hedstrom on the NSF SEAD project (Sustainable Environment - Actionable Data), link includes video
• Mark Parsons, Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance
• Cole Crawford or Chris Kemp, OpenStack, to talk about the power of community-driven innovation

Potential speakers who have been invited:

• danah boyd on 2/18 by Barrie, declined
• Cole Crawford on 2/20 by Barrie, response pending
• Amber Case TED Talk, on 2/20 by Erin, declined
• Henry Rollins, declined

Suggestions from DP13 feedback survey for speakers:

• Tim Berners-Lee
• Tom Cramer, DPN
• Deborah Kempe, NYARC
• Stephen VonRoekel, Fed CIO
• Don Mennerich, NYPL
• Linus Torvalds, Linux, Github
• Bob Young, Redhat
• Mark Ewing, Redhat
• Dave Olson, VP Community at Hootsuite
• Jack Dorsey, Twitter creator
• Sree Sreenivasan

Many interesting folks at http://www.allthingsopen.org/

• Scott Chacon, Github
• Chris Dibona, Director of Open Source, Google
• Jessica McKellar, Python Software Foundation
• Erynn Petersen, Outercurve Foundation, Executive Director

Themes or Topics

• Reflection on advancement of digital preservation practice and tools and other long-range outcomes of development efforts since one of the first NDIIPP-funded projects, such as the Archive Ingest and Handling Test
• Review of what tools exist for digital preservation
• Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations
• Review of how organizations can collaborate and pull resources to achieve their missions
• Online transactions and security—consider a panel on Bitcoin. Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information
• Scientific data and other content at risk of obsolescence, and what methods, techniques, and tools are being deployed to mitigate risk—consider a panel led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI, e.g., Jane Greenberg, John Faundeen, or Chris Muller (mentioned above)
• Lack of digital preservation plans by commercial firms experienced in the deployment and management of DAMs, and lack of an understanding of the value of digital stewardship by executives—perhaps Stephen Wolfram (mentioned above) or David Rosenthal could address this issue in depth
• The right to be forgotten—danah boyd (mentioned above) has addressed this issue somewhat
• The research use of what we are preserving could be an interesting panel. Could include social scientists using twitter and the work at the Hathi Trust Research Center, plus more!

Suggestions from DP13 feedback survey for topics:

• Digital forensics
• Email experts
• Economic models for collaborative preservation
• Commercial digital archiving services
• NSA or other data mining organizations
• Someone from Google, Cisco, Internet Archive
• Someone archiving social media