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Greetings,

Broadly speaking, the Standards and Practices Working Group will focus on developing, following and promoting effective methods for selecting, organizing, preserving and serving digital content. One of the chief duties for members will be to lend expertise and experience in order to develop rubrics for assessing and selecting target digital formats for the national digital collection.

It is ultimately your input that will determine the specific scope of activity for the group.

To that end, the working group contacts at LC are gathering information that will comprise a scope of work document for each group. To help track suggestions more formally we've implemented an IdeaScale instance, now officially open at www.ndsa.ideascale.com. IdeaScale is a free resource, but you do need to create an account.

IdeaScale has been used by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the FCC's National Broadband Plan initiative, the Mozilla Labs, Avid's ProTools software and the Boy Scouts (!) amongst many others to collect ideas from their customers/stakeholders, give those stakeholders a platform to vote on submissions and then allow the most important ideas to bubble to the top.

We encourage you to utilize IdeaScale to submit ideas for the Standards and Practices Working group and to comment on other postings to start the conversation on how to shape the output of the group. You are also free to submit ideas for other working groups, or to drop me a suggestion via email.

A more formal timetable will be released shortly for the development of the scope of work documents, but we are hoping to compile the top IdeaScale submissions by the end of September and distribute a draft scope of work by mid-October.

Submit early! Submit often!

Concurrently, we hope to have the Chair of the Standards and Practices Working Group in place by Oct. 15. If you are interesting in filling that position, please express your interest to me by October 1.  A fuller description of this position will be forthcoming.

Best,

Jimi


Jimi Jones
Information Technology Specialist
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress

(202) 707-2846
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