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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-STANDARDS&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