Hello Everyone -

Andy Maltz here, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences'
Science and Technology Council.

For more information on the Council, please see:
http://www.oscars.org/science-technology/council/index.html

And for some background on the Academy's interest in digital
preservation, please see:
http://www.oscars.org/science-technology/council/projects/dmpafp.html

We're just coming off of 3 years of NDIIPP work, which includes
publication of the reports mentioned in the previous link.  Our interest
in the NDSA is driven by the many unsolved problems related to digital
preservation, and we are currently working on the post-NDIIPP context
for the Academy's work in this area.  We believe that the NDSA will help
set that context, and we look forward to working with all of you.

Best regards,
Andy

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From: The NDSA Standards working group list
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Jimi
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:28 AM
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Subject: [NDSA-STANDARDS] Welcome to the National Digital Stewardship
Alliance's Standards and Practices Working Group

Welcome to the NDSA Standards and Practices Working Group!

Each working group will have co-chairs, one from the NDSA community, and
one from the Library of Congress. I'm Jimi Jones and I'll be the Library
of Congress co-chair for this working group. While the NDSA
organizational structure is beginning to be put into place (including
who the working group chair from the NDSA is), the LC co-chairs wanted
to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves and officially kick off
the working group listservs.

The first order of business is to make sure you are the appropriate
person from your institution to be signed up for the Standards and
Practices working group. If a colleague of yours will be participating
in this group instead of you, or in addition to you, please contact me
directly ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) for them to be added to
the listserv (or if you'd like to be removed). We encourage multiple
participants within and across working groups. And remember, your
institution can switch to a different working group at any time if a
particular group is not a good fit.

The second thing we'd like to do is to get a better sense of the
participants who are on this list and interested in the Standards
Working Group.

I invite you to post a quick message to say hello, introduce yourselves,
and tell us a little about what brought you to this NDSA Working Group!

I'll get us started:


I started here at the Library of Congress very recently - this past
March - so I'm a newbie to this institution! I am serving as Digital
Audiovisual Formats Specialist here at the Office of Strategic
Initiatives and NDIIPP. Prior to working here at LC I was Project
Coordinator for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's
Audiovisual Self-Assessment Program, an IMLS-funded project
(http://www.library.illinois.edu/prescons/avsap). I am a 2007 graduate
of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois
and I am in my second year of teaching as Adjunct Professor for that
program. I teach a course entitled LIS 590 AVL: Audiovisual Materials in
Libraries, Museums and Archives. Prior to my master's work I worked as
an audiovisual archivist at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott
Library. I spent two years developing the Marriott Library's Utah
Independent Film Archive, a collection of film and video art made by
Utah artists (http://tinyurl.com/3yff6vt). I have worked professionally
as videographer, cinematographer and editor and in 2003 I received my
bachelor's degree in film production from the University of Utah.

I'm looking forward to working with all of you!

Best,

Jimi

Jimi Jones
Information Technology Specialist
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress

(202) 707-2846
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