Strategic Plan
NDSA Leadership 2020 Strategy Map
The following outlines the strategic priorities of the NDSA in 2020.
Communications and Publications
To promote community and raise public awareness.
- Review Outreach and Marketing strategies
- Evaluate the role of OSF for NDSA publications.
- Highlight publications more effectively (high value to community)
- Plan and host annual DigiPres Conference
- Explore holding DigiPres internationally / co-sponsor with another org
Reports and Guidance
To advocate standards, encourage sustainable infrastructure, and broaden access to preserved digital materials.
- Advocate for international digital preservation through cooperative projects and best practice documents
- Explore broadening the international reach of the NDSA (short term)
- Review past communications with international organizations (eg: DPC)
- Explore broadening the international reach of the NDSA (short term)
- Continue to publish and update the NDSA Agenda
- Continue to publish and update Levels of Preservation
- Provide documented timelines for surveys and other reports that are cyclical. (e.g. Storage, Staffing)
- Establish Interest and Working Groups to pursue research and develop NDSA recommendations for standards and good practice guidelines
Knowledge Exchange
To facilitate cooperation and promote innovation.
- Promulgate and recast the NDSA as an international organization
- Address the word National in the title
- Develop a plan for how NDSA fits into various international digital preservation organizations and their associated conferences (DPC, iPres, PASIG)
- Seek professional partnerships that extend the NDSA’s mission and vision
Governance
To maintain a clear, transparent, and accountable governance structure of the NDSA.
- Establish/re-affirm Foundational Principles for NDSA
- How can we thrive as a self-sustained organization
- Revisit framing of membership types: organizational vs individual
- Framing of About page
- Potentially reorganize WGs/IGs for better alignment with NDSA mission/vision/ goals/activities
- Collate and structure all organizational statements
- Add relevant statements to the website
- Create vision statements as needed
- Review entire member package and add text to website
- Improve coordination to support working groups
- Coordinate Interest Group activities
- Facilitate planning of group activities so that groups are coordinated rather than duplicative
- Document Interest Group activities for consistency between groups
- Define the process of creating and vetting new Interest and Working Groups
- Manage Working Groups and create playbooks
- Oversee the development and sunsetting of Working Groups
- Document and make available an official process for creating Working Groups, notifying the larger membership of working group formation
- NDSA Agenda
- Oversee the development and sunsetting of Working Groups
- Determine appropriate frequency
- Manage running list of advances/publications in the field between each publication - Document past and possible future survey activities and coordinate surveys across groups as possible - Document past and possible future published reports for coordination across groups if necessary as part of reviewing timelines for published reports - Document activities - consistency between groups, way to pull together into some sort of annual accomplishments for NDSA - Enact all of the playbooks that were created in the previous goal term. Review and revise as needed.
- Coordinate Interest Group activities
- Grow program management capacity to support continued growth of NDSA
- Work with DLF staff to assign appropriate roles/ownership of NDSA administrative work
- Set a schedule for the CC elections and CC chair, what needs to be done when.
- Introduce and implement role of vice chair
- Create CC/NDSA Leadership strategic planning playbook
- Develop and document an onboarding process for new CC members, new WG members and new NDSA members
- Clarify our mission/action/guiding principles
- Grow conference revenues to support dedicated program coordination role
- Explore growing the annual conference to build enough of a funding stream to support hiring a program manager for NDSA at CLIR