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Hello everyone, I've been working with LoC and NDIIP for several years now, first with the Archive-It program (helping a group called the Electronic Literature Organization get its collection efforts up and running) and then more recently as a co-PI on the Preserving Virtual Worlds project (btw, we just completed our final report on this one; it's a monster, 60,000 words, and we look forward to getting it out there into the community). As the job titles in my sig suggest, my profile is likely a bit different from most others here. I'm an English professor, but I also work in the emerging field known as digital humanities. I was trained as textual scholar and bibliographer, meaning I'm interested in the history and transmission of written documents as physical artifacts. That interest now extents to born-digital documents and records, thus my interest in the NDSA. I've done a good deal of work with manuscript collections around digital personal papers, including a report on Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections forthcoming in a couple of months from CLIR, and this pilot study on Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use, funded a couple of years back, by NEH: http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=111&id=37 In the context of this group, I imagine my contributions as being around content collection for digital personal papers (or "eManuscripts," as the British like to call them), particularly in the arts and humanities. Best, Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC, a Living/Learning Program in the Honors College) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter