{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/1","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/usnationalarchives/opengovplan","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/1/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/1/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/1/events","html_url":"https://github.com/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/1","id":176217980,"number":1,"title":"Section 3 (Flagship Initiatives), Initiative 10 (Digitization) - Need more visibility into digitization partnerships and easier access to the records they produce","user":{"login":"Asparagirl","id":97600,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/97600?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl","html_url":"https://github.com/Asparagirl","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2016-09-11T03:56:45Z","updated_at":"2016-11-18T20:11:06Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi NARA,\n\nThank you for putting your Open Government Plan up on GitHub and asking for feedback from the public.  It's an encouraging sign that the agency is moving in the right direction.\n\nRight now, your \"digitized by partners\" web page...\nhttp://www.archives.gov/digitization/digitized-by-partners.html\n...lists which digitization partner has digitized which of your holdings.  It's a simple \"who did what\" list.\n\nBut because these items sent out for digitization are usually not available to the general public and the researcher community while that work is in progress, we really need much more frequent updates on what's going on with them, while we wait for access to be restored.\n\nYou should add more fields to the table on that page, including but not limited to:\n- the date the digitization work was begun on that particular item;\n- the current status of the digitization work on that particular item (updated at least once a month - and note that of this writing, that web page as a whole has been stale for over nine months, since January 2016)\n- the date the digitization work was completed on that particular item;\n- the date the materials went online for embargoed use on the partner website;\n- the date that the embargo period will (or did) end for that item;\n- the date the no-longer-embargoed item had its contents (the new images) added to the NARA catalog\n- the date the basic metadata created about the item by the partner was also added to the NARA catalog\n\nThis newly expanded table should also probably become an XLS or CSV dataset on your data.gov data catalog, which frankly looks pretty sparse at the moment.\n\nIdeally, this page would also list a new \"coming soon\" section, so the researcher community will know what's coming next.\n\nEven a quick perusal through the public comments left on your own blog, NARAtions, will make it clear why these new fields and this increased communication is sorely needed:\n\nhttps://narations.blogs.archives.gov/2015/07/31/ancestry-com-partnership-agreement-for-public-comment/\nand\nhttps://narations.blogs.archives.gov/2015/08/27/thank-you-for-feedback-on-renewal-of-the-ancestry-com-partnership-agreement/\n\nFinally, has there been any thought about making either the digitized images, or the newly-created metadata that goes with them, or both, available as a single bulk-download per item, either through the data.gov data catalog or through another method such as a torrent?  Or perhaps for sale on a USB drive?  That is, right now when the items are finally added to your catalog, they're searchable in the catalog one by one, image by image, but could there be an easy way for the public to get access to the entire set or to the metadata for an entire set?\n\nThank you for your time and your public service.\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/comments/261630026","html_url":"https://github.com/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/1#issuecomment-261630026","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/usnationalarchives/opengovplan/issues/1","id":261630026,"user":{"login":"Asparagirl","id":97600,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/97600?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl","html_url":"https://github.com/Asparagirl","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Asparagirl/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-11-18T20:11:06Z","updated_at":"2016-11-18T20:11:06Z","body":"Thank you for the update!\r\n\r\nOf all the suggestions I had in my original comment, I think the two that need to be prioritized are the \"what's in progress right now\" and \"what's coming soon\" lists on the website, just so everybody kind of has an idea what's being done and what the roadmap is.  Neither of those exist yet.  Obviously, adding exact dates would be great, but even something as simple as \"Scheduled for digitization in second half of 2017: records X and Y with partner Z\" would really help, as a stopgap measure."}}
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