Northwest Digital Archives Committee and Contacts

Charge for FY10

• Work to retain current members and attract additional ones in pursuit of expanded collection exposure across the region.
• Write and submit NEH grant to add new members, facilitate the participation of current members, and add additional finding aid to the database. (July 2009)
•  Write and submit NHPRC grant to integrate traveling archivist and institutional mentoring program. (October 2009) 
•  Monthly publication of use stats, finding aid numbers, top retrievals, and regular reminders of available stats
•  As a strategic issue, focus on attracting and retaining non-academic institutions as members
• Collection-level finding aids

Calculate how many collection-level finding aids are in the database

Encourage addition of more collection-level finding aids

• Add digital content to existing finding aids
• Determine how many finding aids currently have links to digital content
• Encourage members to add links and promote existing tools for doing so
• Assess why members are or are not adding links
  

• Remind members of the tools that we have developed and develop short video tutorials for using them
• “Pause for Applause,” celebrate members’ successes, small and large, that relate to our program and to key initiatives
• Continue NWDA News weekly
  

• Advocacy
• Respond to member needs for advocacy support, on their request
• Develop elevator speech/key bullet points as one of member tools
• Use Easy Access and other archival publications to highlight members’ successes through program membership
  

• Digital Program work
• Continue to be involved with the Alliance’s DP development.
  

• Tools development
• Complete development of web encoding template
• Create Archivist’s Toolkit interest group within NWDA for institutions interested in exploring implementation
  

• Ongoing administration

• Begin examination of membership, governance, and cost distribution of budget in advance of digital program development

• Sponsor annual Committee meeting
• Reconsider timing of this and other in-person meetings; pursue video conferencing
  

• Continue to play a role, as needed, with WCL and special collections/archives issues

• Cross-search capabilities
• Work with OCLC and Archive Grid to facilitate more harvesting of NWDA finding aids, as members desire
• Respond to opportunities to explore cross-search capabilities with other EAD consortia
  

Program Manager

The Northwest Digital Archives Program Manager serves in an ex officio and non-voting capacity on the NWDA Steering Team

Working Groups

Standards Working Group

Usability Design Working Group