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The 2022 Digital Preservation (aka DigiPres) conference in Baltimore was a huge success and a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues. NDSA Leadership is grateful to the Organizing Committee for putting together an engaging program, to Jes Neal and Stacey Erdman for their thoughtful leadership, and to CLIR and DLF for their support and collaboration. We wanted to take a moment to share some of Leadership’s personal highlights from the days’ events:

• It was really energizing to be in physical space with so many people I’ve only seen on Zoom for the past few years. One of my favorite sessions was Alex Kinnaman’s presentation on recovering from a ransomware attack – it made me think a lot about cybersecurity, its impact on digital preservation, and the importance of preventative measures. I also loved Dorothy Berry’s keynote about the stories that digital preservation tells.  -Hannah Wang

• I really enjoyed each of the “Emerging Technologies” presentations; Jasmine Mulliken’s work on digital scholarly monographs was an interesting case study of a multi-faceted approach for preserving complex digital objects. With my co-chair Lauren Work, we presented some findings from the recently published NDSA 2021 Staffing Survey Report and had an engaging Q&A with the audience about the survey and resulting report. It was great to catch up with colleagues, including those whom I hadn’t seen in a couple of years and others whom I had never met in-person before but have worked with on NDSA initiatives.  -Elizabeth England

• Due to a family emergency, I was only able to attend the first half-day of DigiPres 2022. Still, it was an invigorating half-day allowing me to reconnect with many people I have only seen virtually in the past few years and to make new digipres friends. The interactive workshop on Mailbag was a highlight for me, it was the smoothest tech workshop I’ve seen, there were nearly no technical glitches and everyone was able to follow along on their own laptops. You could tell the audience was eager to try it out and see how Mailbag could help them with their own email preservation workflows. I regret having to miss the Fixating on Fixity session and am watching the OSF proceedings repository to see if the slide deck is uploaded.  -Nathan Tallman

• I’ve been fortunate to befriend many colleagues over the last decade or so, and connecting with them in person for the first time in several years reaffirmed my commitment to values-based practice. Perhaps for that reason, DigiPres sessions that focused on digital preservation staff and their needs and concerns drew my attention most. In particular, Elizabeth England and Lauren Work did an excellent job parsing some of the results of the 2021 Staffing Survey—for me, emphasizing how much top-down advocacy and resource support for digital preservation is needed. That presentation was followed by a detailed discussion of George Blood’s experiments with WGBH’s Raananah Sarid-Segal and Caroline Oliveira Mango on the carbon impact of cryptographic hashes, which further reinforced how valuable the dedicated time and attention of staff is necessary to refine our practices to reduce climate impact.   -Courtney Mumma

• Like others, I was delighted to be in Baltimore for NDSA and to meet many of my colleagues in person, many for the first time. For me, the most impactful session I attended was “A Digital Preservation Reckoning: If we don’t lead with values, where do we end?” Led by Hannah Wang, Courtney Mumma, Sibyl Schaefer, and Andrew Diamond, the session engaged the audience to consider risk and accountability for the digital preservation services we use. Lots of food for thought and valuable considerations for how we approach digital preservation as a profession. I also enjoyed Jasmine Mulliken’s presentation on digital preservation and publication, “The Story of a Digital Scholarly Publication, as Told by its Preservation Format.” Exciting and extremely useful to see a demonstration and deconstruction of how a multimodal publication might be archived, documented, and stored, and how use is affected by preservation strategies.  -Ann Hanlon

The recordings of the 2021 Digital Preservation Conference: Embracing Digitality are now available as a playlist on the NDSA YouTube Channel! If you missed a session during the conference – or perhaps didn’t have the opportunity to attend – now is your chance to catch up on all the great stuff you may have missed. Many thanks to our DLF conference counterparts for posting these.  

Additionally, a page has been created on the NDSA OSF site called NDSA’s Digital Preservation Conference Links. This will provide a centralized location to find links to past years’ conference materials. This page uses the wiki to link to the slides and recordings of available DigiPres conference sessions.  

Much gratitude to our NDSA community and beyond for making #DigiPres21 one for the books. Stay tuned for more information about the 2022 conference!

Onwards and upwards,

Tricia Patterson (2021 Chair) 

Session recordings from the virtual 2020 NDSA Digital Preservation conference are now available on NDSA’s YouTube channel, as well as on Aviary. The full program from Digital Preservation 2020: Get Active with Digital Preservation, which took place online November 12, 2020, is free and open to the public.

NDSA is an affiliate of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Each year, NDSA’s annual Digital Preservation conference is held alongside the DLF Forum and acts as a crucial venue for intellectual exchange, community-building, development of good practices, and national agenda-setting for digital stewardship.

Enjoy,

Tricia Patterson; DigiPres 2020 Vice-Chair, 2021 Chair

The NDSA calls for volunteers to join our Planning Committee for the 2021 Digital Preservation conference.

Digital Preservation (DigiPres) is the NDSA’s annual conference – open to members and non-members alike – focused on stewardship, curation, and preservation of digital information and cultural heritage. The 2021 meeting will take place on November 10-11th 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri, just after the DLF Forum. 

NDSA is an affiliate of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and the DigiPres conference is held in concert with the annual DLF Forum. CLIR continues to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and after successfully pivoting to a virtual format for 2020, will be making a call on this for 2021 by early spring 2021. 

Planning Committee responsibilities include:

• Defining a vision for the conference
• Crafting and distributing a Call for Proposals
• Reviewing and selecting proposals
• Identifying a keynote speaker
• Determining the conference schedule
• Moderating sessions
• Supporting membership through recruitment and mentorship efforts
• Collaborating with the DLF Forum planning committee on community events, equity and inclusion, and sponsorship opportunities

We expect to have monthly group calls from January-November, and this year’s committee will have an exciting opportunity to creatively sustain some of the conveniences and benefits of our virtual platform as we negotiate meeting in person again. 

Join us by completing this form by Friday, January 15th, and please share widely.

We look forward to working with you!

Tricia Patterson, 2021 Chair

Jes Neal, 2021 Vice Chair/2022 Chair