Working Group Schedule

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

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 2029 Every 4 years
Levels of Digital Preservation 2024 2029 Every 5 years
Staffing Survey 2025 2028 Every 3 years
Storage Survey 2023 2026 Every 3 years
Web Archiving Survey 2023 2026 (In Progress) Every 3 years