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I would also find it very useful as we redefine our group. Karen Karen Cariani Director WGBH Media Library and Archives One Guest St. Boston, MA 02460 617-300-4286 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. > >Mark > >Mark Evans >Digital Archiving Practice Manager >Tessella Inc >51 Monroe Street, Suite 702, Rockville, MD 20850, USA >E: [log in to unmask], T: (1) 240 403-7502, C: (1) 240 401 6256, F: >(1) 240 403-7507 > >http://www.digital-preservation.com > > >This message is commercial in confidence and may be privileged. It is >intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this message by anyone else >is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this >message >in error, please inform the sender immediately. Please note that messages >sent or received by the Tessella e-mail system may be monitored and >stored >in an information retrieval system. > > > > > > >Margaret Maes <[log in to unmask]> >Sent by: The NDSA Standards working group list ><[log in to unmask]> >11/10/2011 04:22 PM >Please respond to >The NDSA Standards working group list ><[log in to unmask]> > > >To >[log in to unmask] >cc > >Subject >Re: [NDSA-STANDARDS] NDSA Standards and Practices - staffing and >organizing digital preservation > > > > > > >I am very interested in this. It's the kind of things my member libraries >really want to know. > >********************************* >Margaret K. Maes >Executive Director >Legal Information Preservation Alliance >P. O. Box 5266 >Bloomington, IN 47407 >Phone: 812-822-2773 >mailto:[log in to unmask] >********************************* > > > >On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Meg Phillips <[log in to unmask]> >wrote: > >> Standards and Practices Working Group- >> >> 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! >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> >> Meg Phillips >> Electronic Records Lifecycle Coordinator >> National Archives and Records Administration >> [log in to unmask] >> 301.837.3111 >> >> >> >> ############################ >> >> To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: >> write to: mailto: >> [log in to unmask] >> or click the following link: >> >> >http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STA >NDARDS&A=1 > >> > >############################ > >To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: >write to: >mailto:[log in to unmask] >or click the following link: >http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STA >NDARDS&A=1 > > > >############################ > >To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: >write to: >mailto:[log in to unmask] >or click the following link: >http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STA >NDARDS&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STANDARDS&A=1