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Keynote Ideas

Cleared out some of the longer list of speakers that are not really under consideration and put them here. Keep those fresh ideas coming!

• Jennifer Pahlka, we invited her to DP13 and she was interested but unavailable. Currently on a fellowship at OSTP, running through the summer?
• 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
• Mathew Kirschenbaum on Software Registry
• Cole Crawford or Chris Kemp, OpenStack, to talk about the power of community-driven innovation
• Steven Morales, Director, Digital Preservation Network
• Arfon Smith, Director of Citizen Science, Adler Planetarium, and Technical Lead for The Zooniverse interview -- could also be part of a collaboration or crowdsourcing panel
• Chris Dibona, Director of Open Source, Google
• Jessica McKellar, Python Software Foundation
• Erynn Petersen, Outercurve Foundation, Executive Director
• Scott Chacon, Github
• O'Reilly folks such as Sarah Milstein and Sarah Novotny.
• Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab Vimeo
• Cory Doctorow, author, co-editor of BoingBoing
• Steve Coast, Founder, OpenStreetMap Presentation
• Beth Kolko, her ideas about hackademia are really interesting. The whole idea of functional engineers is rather compelling [1]
• Katie Dowgiewicz, or someone from Cornell, to talk about Yiddish Translation project collaboration with Warwick University [2]
• Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Presentation, TED Talk
• Gil Elbaz, CEO, Factual Presentation
• Sriram Kosuri -- data DNA storage TED
• Jake Porway -- DataKind -- Strata Keynote, PopTech talk
• Maria Papova Brainpickings.org, author
• Lev Manovich, Director, Software Studies Initiative, University of California, San Diego YouTube
• George Oates, Art Director at Stamen Design. Formerly at Internet Archive and Flickr
• Mary Flanagan game designer metadata games article
• Katie Salen, game designer
• Doug Cutting creator of Hadoop
• Joel Selanikio, CEO of DataDyne; see a brief YouTube interview regarding the social impact of affordable technology ; [3] local
• CBS, NatGEO, Albert Yu-Min Lin
• Sarah Parcak, space archeology
• Jason Griffey, Associate Professor/Head of Library Information Technology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Blogger, doing lots of interesting stuff
• Jane McGonigal
• Somebody from Library License

Potential speakers who have been invited:

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

Keynotes, Panels or Breakouts

The following could be either plenary panels or breakout sessions depending on an overall evaluation of their quality. Additionally, stellar individuals might make for a good keynote.

PLACE:

• Andrew Turner, the Chief Technology Officer of Esri R&D Center in Washington, DC.
• Matthew Bloch the New York Times digital mapmaker
• Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships Director of Historypin.
• Deborah Boyer Azavea
• Matthew Knutzen New York Public Library
• Rodrigo Davies, Research Assistant at MIT’s Center for Civic Media on crowdfunding government

Revisiting Archive Ingest and Handling Test:

• Michael Nelson
• Johns Hopkins
• Etc.

Software Preservation

• Recreate the panel from the NDIIPP briefing
• Matt Kirshenbaum
• NIST folks
• LC software curator

Digital Preservation Tools Overview:

• Bagit
• LC CTS
• also could include inadvertent preservation tools like Github (ask Ed Summers/Trevor)

BIG DATA:

• Jerry Johnston, Geospatial Information Officer, Dept of Interior. Geospatial Platform to host BD
• Yael Garten, senior data scientist LinkedIn Strata 2013 conference video
• Alyssa Henry (Amazon Web Services) 2.0 Summit
• Doug Cutting creator of Hadoop
• LC - Carl Watts or NavCC
• someone from NASA about their code.nasa.gov or nebula cloud computing platform [4]
• NCAR rep to talk about Community Data Portal and/or Chronopolis/iRODs distributed storage (PI Don Middleton does sport a great beard!
• NARA - ask Meg Phillips who is the BD person at Archives II. Perhaps Margaret O. Adams, Supervisory Archivist, Archival Electronic Records Operations, National Archives and Records Administration
• SDSC - Brian Schottlaender or David Minor
• UMD - Mike Smorel or Joseph Ja-Ja
• ICPSR - George Alter
• CENDI - Don Hagen
• JHU - Tim DiLauro
• USGS - ask Richard Huffine who is the BD person

Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations:

• Kate Zwaard, LC
• Other peeps who have to manage developers and have a "real" view of what managing these projects means

Archiving social media

• Facebook
• Google Data Liberation
• LinkedIN
• Aaron Cope on Flickr tools and other tools etc.
  • Pinterest -- NYPL is on pinterest so we could probably get a contact through them
  • youtube
  • foursquare
  • twitter (?)

Collaboration:

• DPLA
• Digital Preservation Network (DPN) (might even consider giving them a plenary---see above)
• organizations or projects using technology platforms or social advocacy methods to collaborate for access to open data for the public good. (AKA Erin's attempt at an all-local panel.)
• Ellen Miller, executive director Sunlight Foundation
• Jerry Johnston, Geospatial Information Officer, Dept of Interior. Geospatial Platform to host BD
• Eric Gundersen, CEO Mapbox presentation bio

Scientific Data At-Risk:

• led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI
• Jane Greenberg
• John Faundeen
• Chris Muller

Data Management Plans

• NSF data management plans
• CDL data management plan tool
• NIH data management plans
• NARA

File Format Action Plans

• NARA: Arian, Kevin Devorsey, Don Chalfant
• Lee from LC

Personal Digital Archiving

• selection of the best presentations from PDA 2014 in Indianapolis

Digital Preservation Plans in Commercial Firms:

• Stephen Wolfram
• David Rosenthal

Commercial digital archiving services:

• ArchiveMatica
• Preservica

Linked Open data

• Ed Summers
• Jon Voss, Historypin

Research uses of Preserved Digital Content:

• social scientists using twitter
• the work at the Hathi Trust Research Center
• Digital Afterlife folks
• issues around pages of the deceased on social media

Digital forensics:

• MITH

A Panel of Digital Preservation Pioneers

• to reminisce about the good old days

Gaps Discussion: Where are the gaps in digital stewardship and how can we address them?

• sustainability
• infrastructure
• technology
• funding

Preserving Email:

The right to be forgotten, opting out of digital preservation infrastructures:

• Danah Boyd issues (though not her because she can't come)
• opting out of LC twitter archive?

Online Transactions and Security:

• Bitcoin.
• Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information
• Andreas Antonopoulos from O'Reilly

Economic models for collaborative preservation:

The NSA as a digital preservation organization: