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Nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Innovation Awards. The NDSA established the Innovation Awards last year to recognize and encourage innovation in the field of digital stewardship. These awards focus on recognizing excellence in the following areas: - Individuals making a significant, innovative contribution to the digital preservation community. - Projects whose goals or outcomes represent an inventive, meaningful addition to the understanding or processes required for successful, sustainable digital 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 programs taking a creative approach to advancing knowledge of digital preservation issues and practices. You can submit a nomination via this quick, easy online submission form<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html>. You can also submit a nomination by emailing a brief description, justification, and the URL and/or contact information of your nominee to [log in to unmask] Nominations will be accepted until May 16, 2013. The prizes will be plaques presented to the winners at the Digital Preservation 2013 meeting taking place at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. on July 23-25, 2013. Winners will be asked to deliver a brief presentation about their activities as part of the awards ceremony and travel funds are expected to be available for these invited presenters. For more information on the details of last year’s recipients, please see this blog post<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/06/announcing-five-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/> from LC's The Signal blog. Help us recognize and reward innovation in digital stewardship. Submit a nomination now <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html>! Thanks, The NDSA Innovation Working Group