Hi Emily,

We can certainly add this to the agenda for Monday's call, just after the certifications project discussion. For those of us in the group who aren't familiar with the questions that were asked in the past ARL surveys about digital reformatting and digital preservation, that might be helpful to look at either before or during the call if possible.

I don't think anyone in the group would object to sharing staffing survey data. We are working on a final report for the staffing survey and are also archiving the data at the ICPSR so that we can share the results more broadly. We are aiming to finish these around the end of April, but in the meantime if they want to see how questions were worded I'm attaching a copy of the questions.

Andrea 

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> Subject: [NDSA-STANDARDS] Proposed discussion topic for 3/18 NDSA
> Standards and Practices meeting
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> A group of librarians from ALA/ALCTS/PARS (American Library
> Association/Association for Library Resources and Technical
> Services/Preservation and Formatting Section) is working on revisiting
> the Preservation Statistics that ARL stopped collecting a few years
> back. There will be several questions related to digital reformatting
> and digital preservation, the boundaries of which can get murky,
> particularly with respect to time-based media.
> 
> If the group is amenable, I'd like to invite Annie Peterson (Tulane)
> and Helen Bailey (MIT) to join the call on Monday to talk about what
> sorts of digital preservation metrics would be useful, relatively easy
> to collect on a regular basis, and applicable across institutions of
> different sizes. Something like the annual ARL statistics needs pretty
> broad participation to be meaningful, and gathering statistics must be
> readily incorporated into workflows without too much time or effort; if
> it's too complicated or if folks are not clear on what the metric is
> measuring, they simply won't participate. Input from this Working Group
> could be very helpful in making sure the metrics jive with practice.
> 
> And on a related note, would folks be willing to share the data from
> the Digital Preservation Staffing survey? The PARS group's draft will
> include at least one question about staffing for digital preservation,
> and our survey might help them decide which questions to ask and how to
> word them.
> 
> Thanks, talk to you on Monday.
> 
> Emily Frieda Shaw
> Digital Preservation Librarian
> University of Iowa Libraries
> Preservation Department
> 100 Main Library
> Iowa City, IA 52242-1420
> (319) 384-3431
> 
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Our next meeting will be on Monday (3/18/13) at 1 p.m. EDT (GMT -
> 04:00).
> 
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> -Kate
> 
> == Agenda ==
> 
> 1. New member introduction
> 
> 2. New projects
>    b. Certifications
> 
> 3. Update on projects (15 minutes)
>    a. PDF/A-3 Charter
>    b. WikiProject
>    c. Staffing survey
>       i. Publish report team
>       ii. Archive team
> 
> 4. Anything else?
> 
> 5. Next call
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