Folks:  Let me add support for Wikipedia as a platform for this 
effort.  Wikipedia is actually where I often start out when looking for 
technical standards and file format definitions.  Here are some articles I 
have actually consulted recently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg_2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV#Related_video_formats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bext

Apart from helping to create / maintain Wikipedia articles on different 
standards and practices, we might be able to develop a new page called 
Digital Preservation Standards and Practices, drawing some of the content 
from the existing Digital Preservation page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation

which itself needs a lot of work.  The list of standards on our new page 
could be more lightly 'cataloged' than perhaps was done in the planning so 
far.

It would be great to work in an environment where experts in other fields 
could contribute to the knowledge base, although I can say as a sometime 
Wikipedia contributor, that that can sometimes be a little unsettling 
too.   Not sure if there would be a way to scope such a page or set of 
contributions so that they can reflect libraries' needs and approaches.


Stephen Paul Davis ~ Director, Libraries Digital Program
207A Butler, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
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At 11:53 AM 8/4/2011, you wrote:
>Jimi: I think that this is a more realistic solution than the one we have 
>been exploring. If no participating institution is able to take ownership 
>of the more complex one we have been discussing, we should likely revert 
>to something more simple.
>
>I think it's probably important to remember that the goal of this working 
>group isn't necessarily to catalog all the standards that are out there, 
>but "to facilitate a community-wide understanding" of them. I understand 
>that a catalog or some sort of annotated list is the first step, but I 
>believe that is only part of the issue at hand.
>
>Shane Beers
>Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Michigan
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>(734) 615-2686
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: The NDSA Standards working group list 
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jones, Jimi
>Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:59 AM
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>Subject: [NDSA-STANDARDS] Wikipedia for Standards Survey?
>
>Here's a radical idea re: our standards survey. How about we just update 
>existing Wikipedia pages and create new ones for standards that aren't yet 
>in existence? We can update the existing pages to conform to what we were 
>planning to put into our survey (in terms of fields) and make new ones. 
>Then we have some kind of website that collocates links to the Wikipedia 
>pages by type (metadata standards, AV file format standards, still image 
>format standards, etc). That way we leverage what content is already in 
>the pages and we don't have to figure out some data entry/retrieval tool.
>
>This isn't a fully-formed thought but I wanted to throw it out there to 
>see what y'all think.
>
>Jimi
>
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