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NDSA Creates the Communications, Outreach, and Publications Working Group

As part of our ongoing effort to be transparent and informative, the Leadership of the NDSA approved the creation of a new working group to assist with communications about NDSA activities with the NDSA membership and beyond.  We are looking for people to join in the effort!  Any interest can be expressed by completing the following form by the end of January 2020. 

Group Purpose: To develop, enhance, and refine the communications strategy with the NDSA membership. 

Group Activities: The main expected activities of the group are listed below by public facing and operational categories.  

Public Facing Activities

  • Website: Review and update website for accuracy and timely information.  Edit web pages as requested by the Leadership team.   
  • Social media: Posting to NDSA Twitter etc about NDSA and member activities, publications, etc
  • Blog: Coordinating and posting blog posts about activities, publications, etc
  • Update the shared online events and activities calendar

Operational Activities 

  • Management of Working Groups: Help monitor the processes of the multiple working groups that run on cycles (e.g. Fixity, Staffing Survey). Facilitate group timelines and work with the groups to produce their final published product. 
    • Set up a schedule of known groups that run on cycles.
    • Contact past/present co-chairs of the group prior to next iteration
    • Monitor work (if necessary)
    • Help spin group back down, collect files in NDSA google drive, 
  • Survey Coordination: There are many groups that routinely survey the NDSA membership (or greater).  This group would help coordinate the timing of these surveys across all groups so the membership is not overwhelmed with surveys. 
    • Set up a schedule of known upcoming surveys
  • Publications: This group would be responsible for managing and finalizing NDSA publications
    • Working with groups to know what publications are in the works
      • Recommendations for where/how to store working files, data sets, etc
    • Understanding the desired timeline for publication from the group and setting deadlines.
    • Putting publication into the official Publishing Template format
    • Reviewing publication (basic run through)
    • Publishing on NDSA OSF site
    • In coordination with public facing team:
      • Putting info on NDSA webpage about new publication (if appropriate)
      • Producing a blog post about new publication
      • Producing social media posts about new publication

 

To complete this work we are looking for individuals from NDSA member organizations to join us.  Specific roles that are needed include::

  • Social Media posters/writers
  • Blog posters/writers
  • Teams for
    • Managing working groups and their output
    • Publications Coordinator

Any interest can be expressed by completing the following form by the end of January 2020.  It is not expected that each individual will be doing all tasks – unless they choose to do so! Participating in NDSA in this manner is a great way to understand and interact with all of NDSA activities.

NDSA Announces the Levels of Digital Preservation 2.0

After over a year of hard work, the Levels of Digital Preservation Working group announces the Levels of Digital Preservation 2.0!

In 2018 the NDSA sent out a call to the larger digital preservation community asking for interest in updating the Levels of Preservation.  Response was high – 125 individuals responded! NDSA then convened the Levels of Preservation Working group, which divided up into subgroups to tackle the many areas the community wanted to see addressed in a Levels Reboot. Individuals worked with their chosen subgroups.   

The Implementation Subgroup, led by Corey Davis and Eleni Castro, surveyed the community to see how the Levels had been used in the past and what people liked and didn’t like.  This information was one of the sources used to assist with the revision of the Levels Matrix. The survey results are available on the NDSA OSF site.  

The Revisions Subgroup, led by Karen Cariani and Dan Noonan, met almost weekly for months to address the community’s needs and concerns about updating the Levels Matrix.  Their dedicated work produced the updated Levels Matrix and Implementation Guide.

The Assessment Subgroup, led by Carol Kussmann and Amy Rudersdorf, worked to further explore how the Levels had been used as an assessment.  A report of findings was published on the NDSA OSF site.  In addition, an Assessment Tool that is based on the updated Levels Matrix was created to be used as part of an assessment.  

The Curatorial Subgroup, led by Bradley Daigle and Angela Beking have a public draft available of both the visual and written components. The Curatorial work is meant to form the basis of a series of discussion and decision points around how collections materials can be mapped to the Levels and other elements within an organizations’ preservation strategy.   

The next steps are to create a subgroup to address the development of strategy and additional materials to support the Levels of Digital Preservation v2.0 educational and advocacy efforts. Please contact Bradley Daigle at ndsa.digipres [at] gmail [dot] com if you are interested in working on this or being added to the Levels of Preservation Google Group.  

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