NDSA:Potential Speakers and topics

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Keynote Speakers

Suggestions from Program Committee:

• Henry Rollins
• Jonathan Zittrain
• James Boyle
• Chris Muller
• danah boyd

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

Suggestions from Program Committee:

• 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

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