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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. 

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

2022 Update from the Levels of Digital Preservation Steering Group

What happened with the Levels in 2021?

Like many of us, a free recall of what we accomplished in 2021 was a bit harder than expected. However, here is a brief list:

  • The Teaching, Advocacy, and Outreach group finalized their materials and published to OSF for anyone to use (see their blog post for more information)
  • Multiple presentations to various groups interested in the Levels
  • Discussing and responding to feedback provided to us in our feedback form
  • Regular Steering Meetings (seems simple but you know, 2021…)

 

Looking ahead

We have a lot on our collective plates for 2022. Here is a brief list of what is top of mind for the Steering Group:

  • Create bi-monthly office hours for anyone interested in the Levels of Digital Preservation (NDSA members and beyond!) to drop in and discuss a given topic as well as general business, guest speakers, collaboration updates, etc.
  • Explore interest in specific Levels expansion sets via public office hours
    • Economic factors
    • Risk
    • Environmental impacts
    • Access
  • Formalize governance structure for Steering and various subgroups
  • Continue to track and parse impact of the Levels as well as gather feedback.

 

Levels in Translation

Also, we are proud to update you on the multi-lingual progress of the Levels. To date, there are translations in Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. This is an amazing indicator of community engagement and use of the Levels. If you are working on a translation, let us know!

 

Levels Invitation: Join us

Finally, as we are looking ahead to the work we note above, we would like to extend an invitation to join the Levels of Digital Preservation Steering Group. We hope to match up expertise and creativity with some of the elements we have identified for exploration in 2022. We have created a brief submission form for you to indicate interest and outline the role you would like to play in helping us shape the next iteration.

Thank you to all of you who continue to use, adapt, and promote the NDSA Levels – this is a community standard – one which needs to remain both vibrant and useful to the digital preservation community. We rely on you to help us. If there is anything you think we need to dive into, please use the form or plan on joining one of our office hour sessions. Those should start up in the Spring so keep an eye out!

Just a reminder that we continue to accept feedback – please use this to reach out to the team or give us your thoughts!

 

Bradley Daigle, Chair

On behalf of the Levels Steering Group

 

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