Working Group Schedule

The NDSA, chiefly through its Working Groups, conducts surveys and produces reports about different aspects of digital preservation practice. It also stewards the Levels of Digital Preservation. The majority of these publications are made available on the NDSA Zenodo community .

Additional guidance was created for co-chairs of Survey working groups to assist them with the many aspects of running this type of working group.

The following table outlines the anticipated schedule for NDSA survey working groups. It is intended to help members plan for future opportunities to participate. Dates are approximate and may change based on community needs and volunteer availability. Working group projects may span multiple years before publication.

Survey	Last Completed	Next Anticipated Start	Typical Cycle
Fixity Survey	2025-2026	2029	Every 4 years
Levels of Digital Preservation	2024-2026	2029	Every 5 years
Staffing Survey	2025-2026	2028	Every 3 years
Storage Survey	2023-2024	2026	Every 3 years
Web Archiving Survey	2023-2023	2026 (In Progress)	Every 3 years