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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:[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