Category: NDSA

Call for Nominations to the NDSA Coordinating Committee – Extended

NDSA will be electing three members to its Coordinating Committee (CC) this year, with terms starting in January 2023. CC members serve a three year term, participate in a monthly call, and meet at the annual Digital Preservation Conference. The Coordinating Committee provides strategic leadership to the organization in coordination with group co-chairs. NDSA is a diverse community with a critical mission, and we seek candidates to join the CC that bring a variety of cultures and orientations, skills, perspectives and experiences, to bear on leadership initiatives. Working on the CC is an opportunity to contribute your leadership for the community as a whole, while collaborating with a wonderful group of dynamic and motivated professionals. 

If you are interested in joining the NDSA Coordinating Committee (CC) or want to nominate another member, please complete the nomination form by 11:59pm EDT Friday, August 19, 2022 which asks for the name, e-mail address, brief bio/candidate statement (nominee-approved), and NDSA-affiliated institution of the nominee. We particularly encourage and welcome nominations of people from underrepresented groups and sectors. 

As members of the NDSA, we join together to form a consortium of more than 260 partnering organizations, including businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, professional associations and universities, all engaged in the long-term preservation of digital information. Committed to preserving access to our national digital heritage, we each offer our diverse skills, perspectives, experiences, cultures and orientations to achieve what we could not do alone. 

The CC is dedicated to ensuring a strategic direction for NDSA, to the advancement of NDSA activities to achieve community goals, and to further communication among digital preservation professionals and NDSA member organizations. The CC is responsible for reviewing and approving NDSA membership applications and publications; updating eligibility standards for membership in the alliance, and other strategic documents; engaging with stakeholders in the community; and working to enroll new members committed to our core mission. More information about the duties and responsibilities of CC members can be found at the NDSA’s Leadership Page.

We hope you will give this opportunity serious consideration and we value your continued contributions and leadership in our community.

Any questions can be directed to ndsa.digipres@gmail.com. 

Thank you,

Hannah Wang, Vice Chair

Programs are Live for CLIR’s 2022 Events: DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, DigiPres, DHC Symposium

Join us in Baltimore October 9-13, 2022. October 9: Learn@DLF; October 10-12: DLF Forum; October 12-13 NDSA Digital Preservation & Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium

The Council on Library and Information Resources is delighted to announce the release of the full programs for our in-person conferences happening in Baltimore, MD this October: the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) Forum and Learn@DLF, NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2022: Preserving Legacy, and CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium. This year’s programs are remarkable, and you won’t want to miss them.

Explore the Programs

Our events will take place on the following dates:

We are especially grateful to our volunteer Reviewers and Program Committees, without whom these fabulous programs would not have come together. And, thank you to all who submitted proposals. This year’s field was competitive, and it shows in the strong programs we’re sharing today.

Secure the early bird rate, register for our events, book your hotel, browse our new community-written Baltimore local guide, and start planning for yet another memorable week with CLIR. 

DLF member organizations receive one complimentary DLF Forum registration as part of their member benefits. Not sure who received your code? Contact us at forum@diglib.org. 

We will continue updating the Covid-19 Health Protocols information on our website. If you have any questions, please write to us at forum@diglib.org. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore this fall.

-Team DLF

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NDSA Welcomes Three New Members

As of 14 June 2022, 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. 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.

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc.

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator supports contemporary emerging artists who explore and experiment with new forms and themes that challenge traditional definitions of Caribbean and Latin American art. Diaspora Vibe is an IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) awardee that has worked in partnership with the University of Miami’s Special Collections and Digital Library of the Caribbean at Florida International University to preserve, digitize, and increase access to its archive focusing on artists from the Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora.

Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries

RIT Libraries has been committed to and engaged in digital preservation activities for seven years. They are excited to become active and engaged members of NDSA in order to learn and develop strategies that will enable them to make a stronger case locally for development and implementation of a digital preservation infrastructure. They are most interested in the areas of infrastructure, sustainability, and standards and best practices.

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries

UTA Libraries focuses on web archives using Archive-It, preserving born-digital related to the collecting areas of UTA Special Collections in the UTA Libraries Digital Archive, powered by Preservica, and preserving data in the Mavs Dataverse with the assistance of the Texas Digital Library. They are excited to be a part of the larger international conversation surrounding digital preservation, staying up-to-date with technological change, and monitoring new developments in the digital preservation field.

Posted by Hannah Wang, Vice Chair of the NDSA Coordinating Committee on behalf of the Coordinating Committee

 

Registration is Now Open for CLIR’s 2022 Events, Keynotes Announced

Join us in Baltimore October 9-13, 2022; October 9: Learn@DLF; October 10-12: DLF Forum; October 12-13: NDSA's Digital Preservation and the Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium

The Council on Library and Information Resources is delighted to announce that we have opened registration for our in-person conferences happening in Baltimore, Maryland this October: the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) Forum and Learn@DLF, NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2022: Preserving Legacy, and CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium.

Our events will take place on the following dates:


We’re also very excited to announce the keynote speakers for all of our events:

  • David Nemer and Meredith Broussard will be in conversation, moderated by Sara Mannheimer
  • Dorothy Berry will keynote DigiPres with “Keeping Whose History, For Whom: Writing the Stories Digital Preservation Tells”
  • Michelle Caswell will keynote the Digitizing Hidden Collection Symposium with “‘So that Future Organizers Won’t Have to Reinvent the Wheel’: Activating Digital Archives for Liberatory Uses”


Secure the early bird rate, register for Learn@DLF workshops, book your hotel, browse our new community-written Baltimore local guide, and start planning for yet another memorable week with CLIR. 

Learn more about our events and keynotes on the DLF Forum Blog.

Register Today

If you have any questions, please write to us at forum@diglib.org. If you’d like to know more about our Covid-19 Health Protocols, click here. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore this fall.

-Team DLF

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Office Hours for the Levels of Digital Preservation

The NDSA Levels Steering Team is excited to announce the introduction of bi-monthly open office hours. In these informal sessions, we will welcome all members of the digital preservation community to chat about the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation and ask questions about their use and how to move forward. The sessions will also be used to gather community input on the future direction of the Levels and “next steps”.   To begin, each session will include an open discussion and a focused topic discussion. We are also crafting a list of future topics that anyone can contribute to for future meeting discussion topics.

The first open office hour will be on the 20 April (1130 EST). The focused discussion for our first session will be the topic of Documentation and the Levels. Have you ever wondered how to document that you are giving “Level 3” care to a collection, for a donor, senior manager, or other stakeholder? Do you want to demonstrate that your solution is capable of providing a certain Level of Preservation, depending on its implementation? Do you think that documentation is worthwhile – or not worthwhile – and want to discuss the “whys”? Then this open office hour is for you!  The second part of the meeting will be open questions and discussion.

Come join us!

(Meeting connection details will be shared soon in an NDSA-All email. Questions contact ndsa.digipres [at] gmail [dot] com)

NDSA Welcomes Four New Members

As of 8 March 2022, the NDSA Leadership unanimously voted to welcome its four most recent applicants into the membership. Each new member brings a host of skills and experience to our group. 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.

 

Quantum Corp

Quantum Corp’s goal is to be the leading provider of management and storage services for unstructured data. They mainly focus on designing solutions to address the problems associated with managing and the storage of large data repositories and archives.

 

University of Cape Town Libraries

University of Cape Town Libraries is particularly interested in growing broad-based general awareness, basic understanding, and active participation in their digital preservation systems & services for the university as a whole. Their burgeoning network of Data Stewards & Champions, an interdisciplinary community of practice working to develop and maintain a vibrant, sustainable data culture, is an important vehicle for this.

 

Vanderbilt University Library

Vanderbilt University Library is interested in learning from others’ digital stewardship experiences as well as sharing theirs with the NDSA community. The Library currently holds digital archives with audiovisual, textual, and image-based content. They are using several different systems to archive them, including Glacier, ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, Fedora, and Portico. The Library preserves a number of collections, including the TVNews archive and Vanderbilt yearbooks.

 

WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services, Inc.)

WiLS is a non-profit membership organization that facilitates collaboration and innovation in order to advance library service in the state of Wisconsin and beyond. Since 2005, WiLS has provided consortium management and leadership for the Recollection Wisconsin statewide digital collections program. Notable and recent WiLS digital stewardship projects and initiatives include Recollection Wisconsin’s Curating Community Digital Collections program (IMLS), the Digital Readiness Community of Practice implementation project (NHPRC), mentorship of two national cohorts of tribal libraries engaged in community memory projects (through the IMLS’s Accelerating Promising Practices initiative), and their work with the Ho-Chunk Nation and other Wisconsin tribal communities to increase their capacity in digital collections development and management.

 

~ Hannah Wang, Vice Chair of the NDSA Coordinating Committee

 

NDSA and DPC Announce Cooperation on Awards Programs

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) and Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce an agreement for close coordination and cooperation on their respective awards programs.

The NDSA began in 2010 as a global network of collaborative partners supplying advocacy, expertise, and support for the preservation of digital heritage, promoting a vision in which all digital material fundamentally important to our cultures receives appropriate, effective, and sustainable stewardship to protect and enhance its persistent value, availability, and (re)use.  The annual NDSA Excellence Awards were established in 2012 to recognize and encourage exemplary achievement in the field of digital preservation stewardship.  Since then, 53 awardees have been honored in Individual, Organization, Project, Sustainability, Educator, and Future Steward categories presented during the annual NDSA Digital Preservation conferences.

The DPC was established in 2002 to provide advocacy, community engagement, workforce development, capacity-building, good practice, and good governance in support of resilient long-term access to digital content and services.  The biennial DPC Digital Preservation Awards began in 2005 to raise public awareness about digital preservation and to endorse and celebrate outstanding work in the field.  Thirty-one honorees have been recognized in categories of Collaboration and Cooperation, Research and Innovation, Teaching and Communications, Distinguished Student Work, Safeguarding Digital Legacy, and Outstanding Initiative in Commerce, Industry, and the Third-Sector, as well as individual Fellowships.

The NDSA and DPC each originally focused on national concerns and membership.  However, both now actively encompass and encourage broader international participation.  In view of the overlapping scope of their goals, activities, members, and audience, and to avoid potential confusion regarding eligibility for their respective awards programs, the NDSA and DPC have agreed to a coordinated awards framework.

While both organizations will continue with their own awards programs, the NDSA Excellence Awards will move from an annual to a biennial basis interleaved with the DPC Digital Preservation Awards.  Thus, each year the international digital preservation community can look forward to the presentation of a single set of awards.  Activities performed in the two years prior to an Award’s presentation year are eligible for consideration.  Additionally, each Awards program will invite representative participation of the other on their juries, to promote greater consistency in criteria and evaluation as well as helping ensure organizational continuity between the two programs.  Both organizations will also amplify each other’s award-related communications via their own outreach channels.

This cooperation began with the NDSA’s 2021 Excellence Awards, when Sharon McMeekin, DPC Head of Workforce Development, participated in the judging by the NDSA Excellence Awards Working Group.  Kari May, Digital Archives and Preservation Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh and NDSA Excellence Awards Working Group member, is similarly participating on the DPC Jury for its upcoming 2022 Digital Preservation Awards.  There will not be an NDSA Excellence Awards presentation in 2022; that will next take place in 2023.

“We are delighted with our new cooperative approach with the DPC,” says Krista Oldham, University Archivist at Texas A&M University and co-chair of the NDSA Excellence Awards Working Group.  “It provides a more consolidated process and greater public visibility for honoring exemplary activity throughout the worldwide digital preservation community.”

”The Digital Preservation Awards are designed to endorse and celebrate outstanding work in digital preservation,” explains Sarah Middleton, Head of Advocacy and Communications for the DPC and coordinator of the Digital Preservation Awards.  “Synchronizing and sharing the spotlight with the NDSA Excellence Awards in this way means we are able to highlight even more work which deserves that recognition.”

More information about the NDSA and DPC awards programs and other organizational initiatives is available on the NDSA and DPC websites or by contacting ndsa.digipres@gmail.com or info@dpconline.org.

Call for Proposals open for NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2022!

The NDSA is very pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals (CFP) is open for Digital Preservation 2022: Preserving Legacy (#DigiPres22) to be held on October 12-13, 2022 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Submissions from members and nonmembers alike are welcome, and you can learn more about session format options through the CFPs. The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, April 25, 2022, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

 

View the CFP and Submit

 

Digital Preservation 2022 is held in partnership with NDSA’s host organization, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). 

NDSA strives to create a safe, accessible, welcoming, and inclusive event and adheres to DLF’s Code of Conduct as well as the DLF Forum Health Protocols. 

We look forward to seeing you at DigiPres22! 

~ 2022 DigiPres Planning Committee

 

Separate calls are being issued for CLIR’s 2022 events: 

Learn@DLF (October 9) is the dedicated workshop series for digging into tools, techniques, workflows, and concepts. Through engaging, hands-on sessions, attendees will gain experience with new tools and resources, exchange ideas, and develop and share expertise with fellow community members.

The 2022 DLF Forum (October 10-12), DLF’s signature event, includes digital library practitioners and others from member institutions and the broader community, for whom it serves as a meeting place, marketplace, and congress. Find the call for proposals here: https://forum2022.diglib.org/calls-for-proposals/

The Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium (October 12-13): event will create opportunities for reflection on the current state and future potential of digitization practice in collecting institutions, including how the digital cultural record can better reflect the diversity of human thought and experience, how law and ethics affect strategies for access, and how technologies and standards can improve discovery and learning. Find the call for proposals here: https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/events/2022-symposium/call-for-proposals/

Submissions from members and nonmembers alike are welcome, and you can learn more about session format options through the CFPs. The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, April 25, 2022, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

 

Calls for Proposals for 2022 CLIR Events are Now Live

Join us in Baltimore October 9-13, 2022; October 9: Learn@DLF; October 10-12: 2022 DLF Forum, October 12-13: NDSA Digital Preservation/Digitizing Hidden Collections symposium

 

CLIR/DLF is delighted to share our Calls for Proposals for CLIR’s 2022 events, happening in person in Baltimore, Maryland.

Our events will take place on the following dates:

    • The DLF Forum (#DLFforum, October 10-12), our signature event, includes digital library practitioners and others from member institutions and the broader community, for whom it serves as a meeting place, marketplace, and congress. This year, the Forum’s guiding focus is gratitude. Learn more and check out the CFP here
    • Learn@DLF (#LearnAtDLF, October 9) is our pre-conference workshop day for digging into tools, techniques, workflows, and concepts. Through engaging, hands-on sessions, attendees will gain experience with new tools and resources, exchange ideas, and develop and share expertise with fellow community members. The CFP for Learn@DLF is incorporated with the Forum’s and can be found here.
    • NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2022: Preserving Legacy (#DigiPres22, October 12-13), NDSA’s major meeting and conference, will help to chart future directions for both the NDSA and digital stewardship, and is expected to be a crucial venue for intellectual exchange, community-building, development of best practices, and national-level agenda-setting in the field. Learn more and check out the CFP for this year’s event here.
  • CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium (#digHC, October 12-13), is a two-day event for CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections grant recipients and the wider library and archives communities to celebrate and reflect on five years of project work. Recipients’ collective experiences will create opportunities to discuss the current state and future potential of digitization practice in collecting institutions. Learn more and check out the CFP here.

For all events, we encourage proposals from members and non-members; regulars and newcomers; digital library practitioners and those in adjacent fields such as institutional research and educational technology; and students, early-career professionals and senior staff alike. We especially welcome proposals from folks who can bring diverse professional and life experiences to the conference, including those from minority racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, immigrants, veterans, those with disabilities, and people of all sexual orientations or gender identities.   

Session options range from 5-minute lighting talks at the Forum to half-day workshops at Learn@DLF, with many options in between.

The deadline for all opportunities is Monday, April 25, at 11:59pm Eastern Time.

If you have any questions, please write to us at forum@diglib.org, and be sure to subscribe to our Forum newsletter to stay up on all Forum-related news. If you’d like to know more about our Covid-19 Health Protocols, click here. We’re looking forward to seeing you this fall.

-Team DLF

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. 

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