1. The National Digital Stewardship Alliance: Stewardship, Collaboration, Inclusiveness, Exchange

2. An initiative of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) A collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and business entities to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of citizens now and in the future. Community-driven, action-oriented

4. Stewardship: Commitment to managing digital content over the long-term Collaboration: The strength of communities working together Inclusiveness: A broad range of participants and approaches increases the likelihood that content will be preserved Exchange: The open sharing of ideas, services and software Values

5. The Library of Congress and Members of the NDSA are committed to serving as digital stewards of America's national digital collection and employing standards, systems, and cooperative relationships that advance digital stewardship. Members commit to pursuing and participating in collaborative stewardship endeavors for at- risk digital content. Objectives

6. Have a Voice Share knowledge Drive action Learn from experts Impact change Benefits of Participation

7. NDSA Membership Over 110 member organizations have joined the NDSA since it was founded in July 2010. Examples: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Document Conservation Center, National Park Service, New York Public Library, National Library of Medicine, Thomson Reuters, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, California Digital Library, Harvard University, NARA, OCLC, Montana Department of Administration/State Information Technology Services Division, Public Broadcasting Service, many more. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/ Diverse public and private sector membership http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners Open to any U.S.-based organization committed to the preservation of digital cultural heritage

8. NDSA Working Groups Members commit to participating in one of the five working groups of the Alliance: Content Infrastructure Innovation Outreach Standards and Practices

9. Content Identify content already preserved, investigate guidelines for the selection of significant content, enable discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and match orphan content with NDSA partners who will acquire the content, preserve it, and provide access to it

10. Content Teams Big Picture Group Government Content Team Geospatial News, Media, and Journalism Science, Mathematics, Technology and Medicine Social Sciences Cultural Heritage Arts & Humanities

11. Infrastructure Identify and share emerging practices around the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration and similar activities supporting the long- term preservation of digital content.

12. Innovation Encourage and share innovative methods of digital preservation practices and technologies in order to distribute, document, and share emerging concepts, while conducting and guiding research and development with engaged partners to explore new solutions and opportunities.

13. Outreach Build relationships with stakeholder communities. Identify and assess tools the NDSA community needs for communication. Identify, prepare and promote key digital preservation information resources. Recognize and act on opportunities for outreach within the NDSA and to the larger community

14. Standards and Practices Facilitate a community-wide understanding of the role of standards in digital preservation and how to use them effectively to ensure durable collections.

15. Highlights Content: Taking care of over 150 billion digital cultural heritage items Web sites, texts, images, geospatial data, datasets, TV broadcasts, motion pictures, sound recordings, government records, business records

16. Highlights Preservation Storage System Survey conducted 2011 76% of membership keep copies in multiple geographic locations Results published on The Signal

17. Highlights “Digital Preservation in a Box” A gentle introduction for a general audience of professionals who work with digital information but have no digital preservation experience http://dpoutreach.net/

18. Highlights NDSA Innovation Awards Recognizing innovation in the field of digital stewardship Four categories: Individual, Project, Institution, Future steward 2012 winners announcement at: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreserv ation/2012/06/announcing-five- ndsa-innovation-award-winners/

19. Highlights WikiProject Digital Preservation Improving Wikipedia’s coverage of digital preservation and the organization of information and articles on the topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Digital_Preservation

20. Highlights Kickstarter Curator Page Build the NDSA brand Engage with projects doing stewardship work and help the NDSA understand the new economics of these types of activities http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/NDSA

21. More information about the Alliance is at www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/ Read about NDSA work on The Signal blog blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/ Follow on Twitter: @NDSA2@NDSA2