Hello NDSA Community,



The NDSA Innovation Working Group awards action team is excited to announce the first set of projects, individuals, and organizations to receive NDSA Innovation Awards.



From nearly fifty compelling nominations the awards action team selected the following five winners. Please join us in congratulating them for their hard work.



Future Steward: Mat Kelly, Graduate Student at Old Dominion University: Recognized for his work on WARCreate, a Google Chrome extension that allows users to create a Web ARChive (WARC) file from any browseable webpage. http://matkelly.com/warcreate/



Institution: State Library and State Archives of North Carolina: Recognized for their work educating state employees and information professionals on digital preservation through their www.digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov<http://www.digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov> website, online tutorials, and digpres411 Twitter account. http://digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov/



Project: AIMS Project (An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship): Recognized for their work developing a framework for stewarding born-digital content and filling the gap between applying standards such as OAIS and the necessary workflows and tools for implementation. http://born-digital-archives.blogspot.com/; white paper at http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims/whitepaper/



Individual: Peter Krogh, Photographer: Recognized for his work on The DAM Book http://www.thedambook.com, the dpBestflow website http://dpbestflow.org/, and as a special advisor to the Shutha project (http://shutha.org/), each of which have helped raise awareness and make information on digital preservation practices accessible to photographers.



Individual: Dr. Anthony Cocciolo, Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute: Recognized for his innovative approaches to teaching digital preservation practices, in particular his work partnering classes with archival institutions to work on the digitization and digital preservation of analog audio collections. http://www.thinkingprojects.org



The awards will be presented at the upcoming DigitalPreservation 2012 conference July 24-26, 2012Washington DC. More information on the conference is available here: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/ndiipp12.html

Congratulations to all our winners!

Jefferson Bailey
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress
202.707.8654



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