I would also find it very useful as we redefine our group.

Karen
 

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On 11/10/11 4:26 PM, "Mark Evans" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I am also interested in pursuing this.
>I can certainly reach out to institutions in Europe that have been using
>our preservation technology for some years.
>I think such an exercise will help identify significant gaps in skills
>and 
>roles that are required.
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>I am very interested in this.  It's the kind of things my member libraries
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>On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Meg Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Standards and Practices Working Group-
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>> Warning: this message has nothing to do with the current wiki work.  I'm
>> going to attempt to use the Listserv to raise a new topic and we'll see
>> what happens!
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>> Recently I've had several interesting conversations with people at other
>> institutions about how the work of digital preservation is and should be
>> organized and staffed within organizations.  We've touched on issues
>like:
>> what different roles are necessary to do digital preservation, what is
>the
>> division of labor, what kinds of skills are needed, are developers
>within a
>> digital preservation unit or outside it, would people be willing to
>share
>> org charts and position descriptions, and on and on.
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>> Information like this could be useful for many reasons, including simply
>> finding out how many different ways of doing this there are,
>benchmarking,
>> identifying effective practices, and maybe making a case to strengthen
>> staffing at our own institutions.
>>
>> This topic clearly isn't related to "standards", but it probably is
>> related to "practices."  I was wondering if other members of this group
>> would have any interest in conducting a survey of institutions to find
>out
>> how they organize and staff the digital preservation function, and how
>they
>> would like to organize and staff it.  We could do something relatively
>> simple, on the model of the storage survey recently conducted by another
>> NDSA working group.
>>
>> I would definitely be interested in working on something like this if
>the
>> group thought it was appropriate and worthwhile, and if anyone was
>willing
>> to work on it with me.  I'd be even more interested in seeing the
>results
>> of a survey like this!
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Meg
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>> Meg Phillips
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