Sounds like a good plan. /Stephen

At 02:19 PM 8/4/2011, Goethals, Andrea wrote:
>I also like the idea of using Wikipedia for descriptions of Dig.
>Pres.-related standards. I still think there's value though in including
>best practices and guidance documents, and also early and in-process
>standards efforts, which don't seem amenable to their own Wikipedia
>pages (but I'd like to hear others' thoughts on this). Maybe we could do
>some hybrid solution where we have a website as Jimi suggested that can
>link to descriptions in Wikipedia where they exist, or contain info
>about the ones that aren't "Wikipedia-worthy" (which is a funny notion).
>This website could also have space for institutional usage/trend
>information that we could gather from the related survey we discussed on
>the last call.
>
>Andrea
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:NDSA-
> > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Paul
>Davis
> > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:44 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [NDSA-STANDARDS] Wikipedia for Standards Survey?
> >
> > 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
> > email: [log in to unmask] ~ ph(212)854-8584  fax(212)854-0089
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >[log in to unmask]
> > >(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
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >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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