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Cross posting from the Outreach list. Deborah, are you sitting in on this? Maybe you can report out at our next call, in case there is anything we should be contributing to the effort re: content topics? Abbie -----Original Message----- From: The NDSA Outreach working group list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carol Minton Morris Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 11:01 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [NDSA-OUTREACH] INVITATION: OWG Storytellers to meet on Aug. 18 Hi Everyone, On behalf of the NDSA OWG the Storytellers invite you to continue or join the July 20 workshop discussion on August 18, 2011 at 3:00 pm. Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 866-469-3239 Participant access code: 21408589 At our July Workshop one of the OWG break-out groups (Amanda French-Omeka and Zotero, THAT Camp unconference organizer and notorious twitter-er, Leslie Parilla-Smithsonian, all 18 institutions have field books/notes-moving these field books/notes into central management is an outreach task, Deborah Rossum-one of two digital archivists at the educational non-profit SCOLA (67TB of data and growing), content from 155 countries 85-86 different languages and dialects represented, Kim Shroeder-Teaching adjunct at Wayne State U who is glad that there is an OR group, looking forward to telling/sharing stories, Bill Lefugy-mgr. of communications team at LOC-digi pres.gov web site; facebook page; twitter; blog; NDSA coordinating comm. Interested in how to get more info abt NDSA activities out through NDIIPP mechanisms. Karen Starr-Arizona State Libraries; interested in digitization and getting out of silos, and Carol Minton Morris-OWG co-chair; DuraSpace dir. of marketing and communications, Open Repositories Conference steering committee, slave to 140 characters) discussed sharing great stories about preservation and archiving adventures, mishaps, best practices, dangers, successes and... *Please feel free to respond to the list with specific agenda items. Here are some topics that what we may want to consider discussing on our call:* * Editorial focus --What kinds of stories will we tell? --Is there a structure for telling a particular type of story about preservation and archiving issues that makes sense? --What sort of "container" will stories be part of: an online serial publication or ad hoc releases of content on a wiki or web site? *Formats --Will these stories exist as online text-based documents? --Rich media such as video, audio or all of the above? * Preservation and access --Where will this corpus of stories live? --Who will host? --How will we cover costs? * Frequency --How often will we produce a story? * Workflow --What does this look like? --Is there an integrated workflow attached to the creation/publication of each story? --Can we distribute responsibility for various steps? * Dissemination/distribution --How will we get the word out about availability? --How will we place these stories in front of those who need this inspiration/information? Please send ideas and feedback. All the best, Carol -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications [log in to unmask] Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter@DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace> Twitter@DuraCloud <http://twitter.com/duracloud> http://DuraSpace.org ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-OUTREACH list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-OUTREACH&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-CONTENT list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-CONTENT&A=1