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Sounds like a good plan. /Stephen At 02:19 PM 8/4/2011, Goethals, Andrea wrote: >I also like the idea of using Wikipedia for descriptions of Dig. >Pres.-related standards. I still think there's value though in including >best practices and guidance documents, and also early and in-process >standards efforts, which don't seem amenable to their own Wikipedia >pages (but I'd like to hear others' thoughts on this). Maybe we could do >some hybrid solution where we have a website as Jimi suggested that can >link to descriptions in Wikipedia where they exist, or contain info >about the ones that aren't "Wikipedia-worthy" (which is a funny notion). >This website could also have space for institutional usage/trend >information that we could gather from the related survey we discussed on >the last call. > >Andrea > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:NDSA- > > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Paul >Davis > > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:44 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: [NDSA-STANDARDS] Wikipedia for Standards Survey? > > > > Folks: Let me add support for Wikipedia as a platform for this > > effort. Wikipedia is actually where I often start out when looking >for > > technical standards and file format definitions. Here are some > > articles I > > have actually consulted recently: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg_2000 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV#Related_video_formats > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bext > > > > Apart from helping to create / maintain Wikipedia articles on >different > > standards and practices, we might be able to develop a new page called > > Digital Preservation Standards and Practices, drawing some of the > > content > > from the existing Digital Preservation page: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation > > > > which itself needs a lot of work. The list of standards on our new > > page > > could be more lightly 'cataloged' than perhaps was done in the >planning > > so > > far. > > > > It would be great to work in an environment where experts in other > > fields > > could contribute to the knowledge base, although I can say as a > > sometime > > Wikipedia contributor, that that can sometimes be a little unsettling > > too. Not sure if there would be a way to scope such a page or set of > > contributions so that they can reflect libraries' needs and >approaches. > > > > > > Stephen Paul Davis ~ Director, Libraries Digital Program > > 207A Butler, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY > > email: [log in to unmask] ~ ph(212)854-8584 fax(212)854-0089 > > > > > > > > At 11:53 AM 8/4/2011, you wrote: > > >Jimi: I think that this is a more realistic solution than the one we > > have > > >been exploring. If no participating institution is able to take > > ownership > > >of the more complex one we have been discussing, we should likely > > revert > > >to something more simple. > > > > > >I think it's probably important to remember that the goal of this > > working > > >group isn't necessarily to catalog all the standards that are out > > there, > > >but "to facilitate a community-wide understanding" of them. I > > understand > > >that a catalog or some sort of annotated list is the first step, but >I > > >believe that is only part of the issue at hand. > > > > > >Shane Beers > > >Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Michigan > > >[log in to unmask] > > >(734) 615-2686 > > > > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: The NDSA Standards working group list > > >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > > Jones, Jimi > > >Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:59 AM > > >To: [log in to unmask] > > >Subject: [NDSA-STANDARDS] Wikipedia for Standards Survey? > > > > > >Here's a radical idea re: our standards survey. How about we just > > update > > >existing Wikipedia pages and create new ones for standards that >aren't > > yet > > >in existence? We can update the existing pages to conform to what we > > were > > >planning to put into our survey (in terms of fields) and make new > > ones. > > >Then we have some kind of website that collocates links to the > > Wikipedia > > >pages by type (metadata standards, AV file format standards, still > > image > > >format standards, etc). That way we leverage what content is already > > in > > >the pages and we don't have to figure out some data entry/retrieval > > tool. > > > > > >This isn't a fully-formed thought but I wanted to throw it out there > > to > > >see what y'all think. > > > > > >Jimi > > > > > >## > > > > ############################ > > > > To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: > > write to: mailto:NDSA-STANDARDS-SIGNOFF- > > [log in to unmask] > > or click the following link: > > >http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA- > > STANDARDS&A=1 > >############################ > >To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: >write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >or click the following link: >http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STANDARDS&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STANDARDS&A=1