Month: February 2022

Dutch Translation of the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix 

The NDSA is pleased to announce that Version 2 (2019) of the Levels Matrix has been translated into Dutch by Lotte Wijsman. 

Links to these documents are found below as well as on the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation OSF project page: https://osf.io/qgz98/

If you would be interested in translating the Levels of Digital Preservation V2.0 into another language please contact us at ndsa.digipres@gmail.com. 

 

Nederlandse vertaling van de 2019 Niveaus van de Digitale Duurzaamheid Matrix 

De NDSA is verheugd te kunnen aankondigen dat versie 2 (2019) van de Niveaus Matrix naar het Nederlands is vertaald door Lotte Wijsman.

Links naar deze documenten zijn hieronder te vinden, evenals op de 2019 Niveaus van de Digitale Duurzaamheid OSF projectpagina: https://osf.io/qgz98/ 

Als u geïnteresseerd bent in het vertalen van de Niveaus van de Digitale Duurzaamheid V2.0 in een andere taal, neem dan contact met ons op via ndsa.digipres@gmail.com. 

NDSA’s Evolutionary Leadership

Echoing the sentiments of other colleagues, digital preservation is not a state that is achieved; rather it is a comprehensive set of managed activities that are necessary to provide continued access to digital objects, beyond the limits of media failure or technological change. Similarly, leadership within an organization, especially one that is 100% volunteer driven, is not a state that is achieved, but one that is, or should, be constantly evolving. The continuous evolution of leadership can be attained through sound organizational governance.

To avoid getting caught in the traps of “cult of personality” leadership, or let’s just re-elect so-and-so, NDSA instituted term limits and staggered terms for its elected Coordinating Committee (CC) members. More recently it has established a form of Chair and Vice Chair leadership for the CC. A Vice Chair is elected from the CC and serves for one year in that role, shadowing the current Chair. The following year they succeed as the next Chair; as such they must have at least two years left in their current term when elected as Vice Chair. 

In 2021, I became the first Vice Chair to become Chair. This year, Nathan Tallman, Digital Preservation Librarian for Penn State University, and my former Vice Chair has become the CC’s new Chair. We have elected Hannah Wang, Educopia’s Community Facilitator for the MetaArchive Cooperative, as the 2022 Vice Chair. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming our new leaders!

~ Dan Noonan, Past Chair

Scheduling Changes for NDSA Interest Groups

Starting this month, February 2022, the NDSA Interest Groups will be moving to a rotating quarterly call schedule. This will help members who have wanted to participate in multiple Interest groups but didn’t have the time for two or more calls a month. It will also give Interest Group Co-Chairs more time and flexibility to plan these calls, while also creating opportunities for more cross-group pollination activities, such as quarterly themes and cross-group networking calls. 

Each Interest Group will meet once every three months, on the following schedule:

  • January 10: Standards & Practices
  • February 2: Content
  • March 21: Infrastructure
  • April 11: Standards & Practices
  • May 4: Content
  • June 20: Infrastructure
  • July 11: Standards & Practices
  • August 3: Content
  • September 19: Infrastructure
  • October 10: Standards & Practices
  • November 5: Content
  • December 19: Infrastructure

The updated schedule is reflected on the NDSA Calendar.

As a reminder, NDSA now has a Slack Workspace. Each Interest Group has a channel if you would like to continue conversations between Interest Group meetings. Join one, or join them all. Our workspace address and join link is available on each of the Interest Group meeting note documents.  

~ From the Co-Chairs of the Content, Standards & Practices, and Infrastructure Interest Groups

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