Month: September 2022

Announcing Incoming NDSA Coordinating Committee Members for 2023-2025

Please join me in welcoming the three newly elected Coordinating Committee members Shira Peltzman, Deon Schutte, and Bethany Scott. Their terms begin January 1, 2023 and run through December 31, 2025. 

Shira Peltzman is the Digital Archivist for UCLA Library Special Collections where she works with stakeholders on an enterprise-wide basis to preserve and make LSC’s born-digital material accessible to the widest possible audience. As a current member of the NDSA Staffing Survey Working Group, she has seen firsthand the importance of undertaking this work collectively and the impact that it has on the field. Shira is interested in serving as a member of the NDSA Coordinating Committee because she would like to help guide and coordinate this work to maximize the quality, relevance, consistency, and overall effectiveness of the publications that come out of all Interest and Working Groups.

Deon Schutte worked as a freelance typesetter in the educational publishing industry in South Africa for many years. In 2018 he completed his B.INF (Bachelor of Information Science) through the University of South Africa and his B.INF Honours in 2019. Deon is a MPhil (Master of Philosophy, specializing in Digital Curation) candidate at the University of Cape Town. His research interests are hermeneutics, heuristics, and sensemaking as cognitive processes that support the curation of archival arrangements. Deon serves as the Chair of the Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers, and he is a Fellow of the South African Chefs Association. He works at Africa Media Online as the project manager of a team that is tasked with the organizing and arrangement, prior to digitisation, of the extensive personal archive of one of the prominent politicians of the anti-Apartheid struggle.

Bethany Scott is the Head of Preservation & Reformatting at the University of Houston Libraries. In this role she provides strategic leadership for the Libraries’ physical and digital preservation programs, and digitization and reformatting services for the Libraries and its patrons. Bethany also serves as Product Owner of the Libraries’ open-source digital access and preservation ecosystem, which incorporates Avalon, Hyrax, Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace. Her areas of expertise include digital preservation, born-digital archives, scanning and imaging, and reuse of archival metadata.

We are also grateful to the very talented, qualified individuals who participated in this election.

We are indebted to our outgoing Coordinating Committee members, Courtney Mumma, Dan Noonan, and Nathan Tallman, for their service and many contributions. To sustain a vibrant, robust community of practice, we rely on and deeply value the contributions of all members, including those who took part in voting.

 

Hannah Wang, Vice Chair

On behalf of the NDSA Coordinating Committee

New NDSA Code of Conduct Website

A Code of Conduct webpage is now available sharing information on NDSA’s Code of Conduct practices.  The website links to the Code of Conduct itself, but also provides information on how to report code of conduct violations.  

In most NDSA online spaces, the quickest way to report any concerns or violations is to complete an anonymous form.  Other options include reaching out to Chairs of groups or someone in the Leadership group.  

In addition to this information being available on the website, it is also available at the top of all the Interest Group meeting notes as well as being a pinned post on all Slack channels. 

 

NDSA Interest Group Meetings Open to All

NDSA Interest Groups meet quarterly on a rotating schedule. Meetings are held via Zoom and are open to all. You are invited to attend to learn more about digital preservation, to meet colleagues in other organizations, and to keep up to date on NDSA. Meeting registration is not used, so you are free to drop in as your schedule permits.  The three Interest groups focus on the following areas: Infrastructure, Standards and Practices, and Content.  Please visit the group webpages to learn more about each interest group, including links to meeting agendas and notes, which includes Zoom meeting information.

Interest group meetings for the remainder of 2022

September 29, 3 pm Eastern time

  • Infrastructure
  • Co-chairs: Robin Ruggaber and Eric Lopatin
  • https://ndsa.org/groups/infrastructure/
  • In September, the Infrastructure Interest Group will shift its meeting format to a reading group approach. With our Infrastructure hats on, we intend to discuss two documents that have recently been introduced through different means to the larger digital preservation community. Between now and the end of September, please take some time to review:
    • The Digital Preservation Declaration of Shared Values (version 3 draft) put forth by the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative, and
    • Preservica’s Charter for Long-term Digital Preservation Sustainability

October 17, 1 pm Eastern time

  • Standards and Practices
  • Co-chairs: Felicity Dykas and Ann Hanlon
  • https://ndsa.org/groups/standards-and-practices/
  • Note that the October meeting date was changed to avoid a conflict with the DLF Forum.
  • Guest speakers Amy Currie and Sharon McMeekin from the Digital Preservation Coalition will give an overview of the newly released DPC Digital Preservation Competency Framework.

November 2, 1 pm Eastern time

December 19, 3 pm Eastern time

There is much happening with digital preservation infrastructure, content, and standards and practices. The more people at the table, the better our digital preservation efforts will be. Please join us!

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