Community Cultivation

January 12, 2015

The Chrysalis Project White Paper: Opportunities for New Types of Research Alliances

How can we collectively design systems and organizations that will most effectively sustain innovative new varieties of digital scholarship over time? The Chrysalis project undertook a one-year planning effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study this question by researching models for implementing vertically integrated research alliances (VIRAs) designed to sustain digital scholarship. … Continue reading The Chrysalis Project White Paper: Opportunities for New Types of Research Alliances

May 2, 2014

Critical Moments: Chance, Choice, and Change in Scholarly Publishing

A recording of the first Vision Session at the NASIG 2014 annual conference.

The Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) II Action Assembly will align digital preservation efforts internationally between communities, including national libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, research centers, archives, corporations, and funding agencies. ANADP II will be a highly participatory event in which stakeholders will engage in facilitated discussions and action sessions to produce a set of concrete outcomes for the extended digital preservation community in three areas: Community Alignment, Resource Alignment, and Capacity Alignment. These specific action outcomes will include an international tools/services registry, a framework for applying OAIS to Distributed Digital Preservation methodologies, a catalogue of education and training opportunities, and quantitative data gathering around digital preservation costs.
November 20, 2013

Alignment Exemplars and Current Opportunities for Collaboration

The Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) II Action Assembly will align digital preservation efforts internationally between communities, including national libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, research centers, archives, corporations, and funding agencies. ANADP II will be a highly participatory event in which stakeholders will engage in facilitated discussions and action sessions to produce a … Continue reading Alignment Exemplars and Current Opportunities for Collaboration

Cooperative Approaches to Digital Preservation
April 2, 2009

Cooperative Approaches to Digital Preservation

In this panel, representatives from four archives – the MetaArchive Cooperative, Alabama Digital Preservation Network, Data-PASS, and the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System – discuss the versatility, low cost, and compelling benefits of using cooperative distributed digital preservation networks to safeguard categories of digital content that define our culture, identity, and history and that … Continue reading Cooperative Approaches to Digital Preservation