As a reminder, NDSA is publishing monthly posts summarizing the activities taken by the Leadership Team as well as highlighting past and upcoming activities, which can also be found on the calendar. If you are looking to catch up, you can read the February update.

NDSA is working to keep the listserv current with members and as a result, email addresses which bounce back will be removed from the list. You can always sign-up for the updated list at any time with your current email address. NDSA also has Slack available to members. Sign-up to view channels devoted to specific interest groups or job announcements.

Leadership Updates

The Climate Watch Working Group welcomed a new co-chair, Julie Shi, to act as the Lead Coordinator and Logistics. Sylvia Umana has resigned from her position on the Coordinating Committee.

Membership Updates

The NDSA Coordinating Committee voted on new members in the March 2026 Leadership Team meeting as part of the quarterly review of member applications. Look for the new member announcement soon.

Organizational Transition Updates

Website update

Updates to the content and infrastructure of the NDSA website continue. If you see any broken links or other errors, please report those to the chairs of the Communications and Publications Working Group.

Nonprofit Incorporation

NDSA continues to work with our partners at NISO to formally incorporate the organization as a nonprofit. This work is ongoing as members of the NDSA Leadership Team meet with recommended professionals to work through this process.

Interest and Working Group Updates

Interest Groups

  • The Infrastructure Interest Group has announced meeting topics for the rest of the year including distributed digital preservation networks in June and challenges and opportunities with OCFL adoption in September.

Working Groups

  • The Conference Planning Working Group held its first full planning committee meeting in March and is working to finalize dates for the 2026 conference and establish subgroups.
  • The Excellence Awards Working Group is making adjustments and improvements to the judging process and will bring recommended changes to the NDSA Leadership Team for review at a future meeting.
  • The Fixity Survey Working Group is working on final review of the report with the Communications and Publications Working Group.
  • The Levels of Preservation Working Group has released version 2.1 of the Levels of Digital Preservation and will resume office hours in the summer after the close of the academic year.
  • The Staffing Survey Working Group is finishing up the first draft of the survey report.
  • The Web Archiving Survey Working Group is finishing its review of past surveys and is incorporating considerations for international responders for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adherence.

Upcoming Meetings and Opportunities

Use the NDSA Calendar to look for events of interest and find out when NDSA Leadership meetings are taking place.

  • The Membership Working Group will be hosting a New Member Orientation Call on April 23 at 1:00 pm Eastern. Both brand new and longstanding NDSA members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Keep an eye on the NDSA-All listserv for an announcement with sign-in details!
  • The Standards and Practices Interest Group will be hosting their second meeting of the year on April 20. The meeting will be a presentation and discussion that continues to focus on content provenance and authenticity.

Check out the Get Involved webpage for ways to deepen your engagement with NDSA. Current opportunities include:

  • The longstanding Content Interest Group is currently on hiatus. If you are interested in chairing this group please reach out to Leadership at chair [at] ndsa [dot] com to learn more and talk about group formation.