The National Digital Stewardship Agenda identifies the highest-impact opportunities to advance the state of the art; the state of practice; and the state of collaboration within the next 3-5 years.

1. Announcing the 2014 National
Digital Stewardship Agenda
Micah Altman
Director of Research, Libraries
Head/Scientist Program on Information Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2. Why a national agenda for digital
stewardship?
• Effective digital stewardship is vital for:
– maintaining authentic public records
– growing a reliable scientific evidence base
– providing durable access to our cultural heritage
• Knowledge of ongoing research, practice, and
organizational collaborations is distributed
widely across disciplines, sectors, and
communities of practice

3. Why now?
Climate
Strong trends towards:
• More production of
digital content
• More
publishing, filtering and
access
• More learners and
collaborators
Weather

4. What Was Accomplished?
We have
identified high-impact opportunities to advance:
• the state of the art
• the state of practice
• the state of collaboration
We shall continue to support the agenda :
• Promoting dissemination and engagement
• Providing regular updates and revision
• Facilitating broad collaboration

5. How was this accomplished it?
• Through contributed community effort
• Integrating diverse perspectives
• The persistence, organization, and
commitment of the Secretariat

6. More Information
digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/na
tionalagenda
ndsa@loc.org