The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working
Group<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/innovation.html>is
pleased to open the nominations for the 2014
NDSA Innovation Awards <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html>.
These awards are an example of the NDSA's commitment to encourage and
recognize innovation in the digital stewardship community. For more
information on the details of last year's recipients, please see the blog
post announcing last year's
winners<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/06/and-the-winner-is-announcing-the-2013-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/?loclr=blogsig>
.

The NDSA Innovation Awards focus on recognizing excellence in one or more
of the following areas:

   - *Individuals *making a significant, innovative contribution to the
   field of digital preservation;
   - *Projects *whose goals or outcomes represent an inventive, meaningful
   addition to the understanding or processes required for successful,
   sustainable digital preservation stewardship;
   - *Organizations *taking an innovative approach to providing support and
   guidance to the digital preservation community;
   - *Future stewards*, especially students, but including educators,
   trainers or curricular endeavors, taking a creative approach to advancing
   knowledge of digital preservation theory and practices.

Acknowledging that innovative digital stewardship can take many forms,
eligibility for these awards has been left purposely broad. Nominations are
open to anyone or anything that falls into the above categories and any
entity can be nominated for one of the four awards. Nominees should be
US-based people and projects or collaborative international projects that
contain a US-based partner. This is your chance to help us highlight and
reward novel, risk-taking, and inventive approaches to the challenges of
digital preservation.

Nominations are now being accepted and you can submit a nomination using
this quick, easy online submission
form<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html?loclr=blogsig>.
You can also submit a nomination by emailing a brief description,
justification and the URL and/or contact information of your nominee to
ndsa (at) loc.gov.

Nominations will be accepted until *Friday May 2, 2014* and winners
announced in mid-May. The prizes will be plaques presented to the winners
at the Digital Preservation 2014 meeting taking place in the Washington, DC
area on July 22-24, 2014. Winners will be asked to deliver a very brief
talk about their activities as part of the awards ceremony and travel funds
are expected to be available for these invited presenters.

Take a moment and nominate your favorite person or
project<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html?loclr=blogsig>
!