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Hello NDSA community, Nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 NDSA Innovation Awards! The NDSA Innovation Working Group 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] We encourage all NDSA members to submit nominations. We will be hitting listservs over the next few days and a blog post on The Signal is forthcoming, but also please promote the awards throughout your community. For more information on the details of last year’s recipients, you can examine our post on the topic<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/06/announcing-five-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/>and you can check out interviews with award winners Mat Kelly<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/08/warcreate-and-future-stewardship-an-interview-with-mat-kelly/>the creator of WARCreate, Lisa Gregory<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/08/getting-the-digpres411-an-interview-with-lisa-gregory-of-state-library-of-north-carolina/>of the State Library of North Carolina, Bradley Daigle<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/09/the-aims-project-and-the-stewardship-of-born-digital-archival-materials-an-interview-with-bradley-daigle/>of the AIMS Project, and Anthony Cocciolo<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/09/students-saving-sounds-an-interview-with-anthony-cocciolo/>of Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science. 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. Help us recognize and reward innovation in digital stewardship. Submit a nomination now <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/awards.html>! Thanks, Innovation Working Group Awards Team & co-chairs ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/scripts/wa-DIGITAL.exe?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1