Levels of Preservation Teaching, Advocacy, and Outreach Update

The Levels of Preservation Steering Group is pleased to announce the official release of its first round of training support materials for those who want to teach and educate others in the Levels of Preservation. This has been the product of many months’ refinement and editing – not to mention lots of wordsmithing! Our heartfelt thanks go out to Nance McGovern (MIT) and the rest of the TAO group for their hard work on this project.

The training support packet includes a comprehensive slide deck packed with information as well as a guide for users to help determine the relevant components of the slide for any style of presentation. The deck can be edited and repurposed to suit your needs or audience. Slides could be used for a full day workshop, a webinar, or just a quick infomercial like presentation. The guide helps break down which slides may be most useful for each type of presentation, however feel free to use the slides that work for your purpose or audience. We simply ask that you cite NDSA as the source as noted in the deck.

The materials (as well as a whole host of other NDSA publications) can be found here: https://osf.io/je439/

~ Bradley J. Daigle; Chair, Levels Steering Working Group

NDSA Adds Three New Members

As of 8 June 2021, the NDSA Leadership unanimously voted to welcome its three most recent applicants into the membership.

Each new member brings a host of skills and experience to our group. UCLA is the largest digital library in the University of California system and collects every format, they collect, preserve, and publish petabytes of data. The Crowley Company has provided commercial and archival digitization and micrographic services for those needing to digitally preserve content since 1980. Matthew Breitbart, NDSA’s first Affiliate Member, is an expert at FADGI standards and an M-19-21-SME who has worked with digital information in museums and the private sector.

Each organization participates in one or more of the various interest and working groups – so keep an eye out for them on your calls and be sure to give them a shout out. Please join me in welcoming our new members. To review our list of members, you can see them here.

~ Nathan Tallman, NDSA Vice Chair

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