The National Digital Stewardship Alliance report "Web Archiving in the United States: A 2013 Survey," has just been released and is available at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/documents/NDSA_USWebArchivingSurvey_2013.pdf.

The survey, conducted by a team of NDSA members, led by the Content Working Group, took place from October through November of 2013, and builds upon a similar survey undertaken by the NDSA in late 2011.  The goal of the survey was to better understand the landscape of web archiving activities in the United States by investigating the organizations involved, the history and scope of their web archiving programs, the types of web content being preserved, the tools and services being used, access and discovery services being provided, and overall policies related to web archiving programs.

You can read more about the report on the Signal blog:

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/10/results-from-the-2013-ndsa-u-s-web-archiving-survey/   

The August Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available:

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201408.pdf

Included in this issue:

·         Digital Preservation 2014: It's a Thing

·         Preserving Born Digital News

·         LOLCats and Libraries with Amanda Brennan

·         Digital Preservation Questions and Answers

·         End-of-Life Care for Aging, Fragile CDs

·         Education Program updates

·         Interviews with Henry Jenkins and Trevor Blank

·         More on Digital Preservation 2014

·         NDSA News, and more

The latest Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available!

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201407.pdf

 

In this issue

• Featuring "Digital Preservation and the Arts" including Web Archiving and Preserving the Arts, and Preserving Digital and Software-Based Artworks
• An Interview with Marla Misunas (and friends) of SFMOMA, part 2
• Community Approaches to Digital Stewardship
• Exhibiting GIFs, with Jason Eppink
• NDSA News with the latest reports
• Conversation Corner, interviews with Ted Westervelt, Lisa Gitelman and Shannon Mattern
• Residency Program updates
• Upcoming events

 

 

Sue Manus

Library of Congress/NDIIPP

www.digitalpreservation.gov

sman@loc.gov

 

News

The NDSA Innovation award winners were announced. They will receive their award at the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting July 22, 2014. The winners are:

• Institution: National Software Reference Library, National Institute for Standards and Technology
• Project: XFR STN (Transfer Station), The New Museum
• Individual: Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland
• Future Steward: Emily Reynolds, World Bank

Your Feedback Requested

Kim Schroeder from Wayne State University is conducting a survey about the obsolescent formats housed at organizations. This information will contribute to an article she is writing. You can participate here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BPFY3F6

Reports from recent meetings:

The Content Working Group June meeting featured two speakers discussing preservation of Research Data – this was the fourth and last in our series of talks about the Content Areas outlined in the 2014 National Agenda. Minutes from the meeting and presentation slides can be found on the NDSA Wiki:

http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=June_4_Meeting_Minutes

Standards and Practices WG call on preserving software-based artwork was packed with information and highly attended. A form to submit questions to the presenters and their slides from the meeting are available at the NDSA wiki: http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Standards_and_Best_Practices_Working_Group

Upcoming Webinars:

Monday June 16, 1-2pm EDT

Standards & Practices WG call continuing discussion on preserving digital and software based artworks

Tuesday June 24, 2pm EDT

Infrastructure WG call featuring Dan Ryan from the Olive Executable Archive who will present and lead a discussion on the project.

More at the NDSA calendar: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/calendar.html

Upcoming Meetings:

Digital Preservation 2014

Georgetown Marriott

July 22-24, 2014

Registration is full but you can add your name to the waiting list by emailing ndiipp@loc.gov.

CURATEcamp: Digital Culture

Catholic University Law School

July 25, 2014

Register ASAP https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WXnKRCdBZOULwzEjnO8hzaUlkkjcEfu901fzntpw6fI/viewform

Digital POWRR workshop

Sept. 9, 2014

San Francisco, CA

From Theory to Action: A Pragmatic Approach to Digital Preservation Tools and Strategies.

To register for this workshop, go to http://www.digitalpowrr.eventzilla.net/. If the demand for this workshop exceeds the number of participants allowed, the POWRR team will conduct another workshop the following day….so please add your name to the wait list, if necessary.

More at the NDSA calendar: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/calendar.html

Abigail Potter

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)

Office of Strategic Initatives

Library of Congress

abpo@loc.gov

202.707.7371

The May 2014 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available! http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201405.pdf

In this issue:

·         Shaking the Email Format Family Tree

·         Interview with Jonathan Sterne: The Meaning of the MP3 Format

·         The Why and What of Web Archives

·         Protect Your Data:  Information Security

·         A Defining Experience:  The Residency Class of 2014

·         Digital Stewardship Innovation Challenge, and other NDSA news

·         Conference reports on Personal Digital Archiving 2014, NDSR Symposium, Computers in Libraries

·         In our conversation corner, interviews with Meg Phillips of NARA, George Jungbluth of NOAA, Marla Misunas of SFMOMA

·         Some upcoming events, and more…

Sue Manus

Library of Congress/NDIIPP

www.digitalpreservation.gov

sman@loc.gov

Dear NDSA Members,

1)      New NDSA web pages. If you are ever curious about how the NDSA works, when the next working group call is or what you can do to contribute, you can find all of this information and more on our new and improved NDSA web pages:

a.       Calendar of events: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/calendar.html

b.      About: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/about.html

c.       Get Involved: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/getinvolved.html

d.      Members List: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/memberslist.html

e.      Resources for Members: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/members.html

f.        FAQ: http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/FAQ.html

2)New NDSA listservs. We’ve needed to switch some services up so we have new addresses for NDSA listservs. Please delete the old email addresses and use these from now on, all of the emails were transferred from the old system to the new:

a.       All members: NDSA-ALL@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV

2. Content Working Group: NDSA-CONTENT@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV
3. Outreach Working Group: NDSA-OUTREACH@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV
4. Infrastructure Working Group: NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV

e.      Innovation Working Group: NDSA-INNOVATION@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV

6. Standards and Practices Working Group: NDSA-STANDARDS@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV

g.       Coordinating Committee: NDSA-COORDINATING@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV

h.      Geospatial Content Team: NDSA-GEO@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV

3)      Nominations are now open for the 2014 NDSA Innovation Awards. Please take a moment to nominate an individual, project, organization, or future steward via the quick-and-easy online nomination form. More details on the background of the awards, eligibility criteria, information on past winners, and the prizes can be found on the recent Signal blog post announcing the opening of nominations for this year's awards. Nominations will be accepted until Friday May 2, 2014. Please help us spread the word about the awards and ensure that deserving people and projects are nominated.

4)      The Digital Stewardship Innovation Ideas Challenge has launched. Submit your  ideas on how to tackle the research challenges highlighted in the 2014 National Agenda

a.       Applied Research for Cost Modeling and Audit Modeling

b.      Understanding Information Equivalence & Significance

c.       Policy Research on Trust Frameworks

d.      Preservation at Scale

e.      Evidence Base for Digital Preservation

Read more about the Challenge on The Signal

5)      Recently Released: Don’t miss these recent NDSA reports:

a.       Geospatial Data Stewardship Key Online Resources report was just released by the Content Working Group – Geospatial Content subgroup.

b.      The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3 File Format for Archival Institutions from the Standards & Practices Working Group

6)      Your comments, please. Trevor Owens released a call from the Infrastructure & Standards working groups for comment on draft guidelines for establishing and evaluating “fixity”. Please look over the draft and let us know your thoughts.

Thank you to all members who contribute to the NDSA and help to make it an active and informative group. We hope you can join us July 22-24 in DC for the annual DigitalPreservation 2014 meeting and CurateCAMP. The program and registration will be announced soon.

 

The February issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available!
www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201402.pdf<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201402.pdf>

Included in this issue:

*         Spotlight on Digital Collections, including an interview with Lisa Green on Machine Scale Analysis of collections, and a look at the Cultural Heritage of the Great Smoky Mountains

*         Digital Preservation Aid in Response to Tornado

*         NDSA Digital Content Area:  Web and Social Media

*         Wikipedia and Digital Preservation

*         AV Artifact Atlas, FADGI interview with Hanna Frost

*         Several updates on the Residency Program

*         Listing of upcoming events including the IDCC (Feb 24-27), Digital Maryland conference (March 7), Computers in Libraries (April 7-10), Personal Digital Archiving 2014 (April 10-11)

*         And other articles about data, preservation of e-serials, and more.

Sue Manus
Library of Congress / NDIIPP

 

www.digitalpreservation.gov

sman@loc.gov

202-707-3741

Minutes from our NDSA CWG January 8 call, which featured four fabulous presentations on the National Agenda Digital Content Area "Electronic Records", are available here:

http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Jan_8_2014_Minutes

Here's a link to the webex recording of the event:

https://issevents.webex.com/issevents/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=63872777&rKey=4700ace2786dcb9c

Many thanks to Erin Engle for notetaking, and of course to our presenters, Erik, Glen, Sarah, and Bob.

Our next CWG is next Wed, Feb 5 at 11am and will feature member presentations and general updates.

Our next session in our series on the National Agenda content areas will be:

March 5, 2014 at 11am ET

Moving Image and Sound – National Agenda Content Area

Speakers:

 *   John Spencer, BMS/Chase

 *   Karen Cariani, WGBH

 *   Linda Tadic, Audiovisual Archive Network

 *   Kat Bell, Dance Heritage Coalition

Call in information will be sent out closer to the date. Hope to see you then.

Abbie

Abbie Grotke ~ Web Archiving Team Lead ~ NDIIPP ~ Office of Strategic Initiatives ~ Library of Congress abgr@loc.gov<mailto:abgr@loc.gov> ~ @agrotke ~ 202-707-2833

The NDSA Coordinating Committee and Secretariat value and are committed to transparency and open exchange. A copy of the minutes from the 8 January 2014 meeting of the Coordinating Committee meeting is attached. All documentation for this meeting can be found on the wiki, available from:

http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=2014_Jan_Regular_Meeting