Northwest Digital Archives Committee and Contacts

Charge for FY11 (July 2010-June 2011)

• Program growth and development
• Initiate a serious discussion of other things we could provide that add value to membership in NWDA; present at annual meeting
• Apply for an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant to expand the usefulness of EAD beyond current presentations
• Tools development
• Archivist’s Toolkit support and development
• Continue to explore ways to work with legacy data in EAD to help institutions make more of their finding aids accessible
• Produce technical and administrative documentation that records and clarifies NWDA’s current practices and procedures
• Training and Education
• Support for EAD training and encoding, including mentor support
• Move NWDA training to webinars for greater accessibility
• Technical support transition
• Transfer technical infrastructure and support from WSU to the Alliance by the end of calendar year 2010
• Members should experience minimal to no disruption of services
• Ongoing services to members as outlined at http://orbiscascade.org/index/nwda-membership
• Ongoing administration
• Sponsor annual Committee meeting (Helena, MT, April 2011)
• Actively work to meet members’ needs
  
• Continue to play a role with OCLC: WCL, WMS, and special collections
• Progress: Program Manager appointed as liaison to OCLC at the Alliance
• Digital program work
• Digital Services Team involvement
• Actively support development of the cross-search utility
• Active role in communication through NWDA News, particularly on digital preservation issues; assess quality of communication at annual meeting
• Retain current members and recruit new ones
• Concentrate on retaining and recruiting non-academic members, including a consideration of single membership category/price
• Look at ways to serve and attract smaller institutions
• Publication of general use stats monthly
• Production of customized reports as members request them
• NHPRC grant implementation, which will add six new members in FY12
• Continue to look at costs, total budget, and distribution, making clear the value of expenses
• Re-apply for NEH grant to add three new members and retain three current one
• Progress: Application submitted July 15, 2010 
  

Program Manager

The Northwest Digital Archives Program Manager serves in an ex officio and non-voting capacity on the NWDA Steering Team

Working Groups

Standards Working Group

Usability Design Working Group