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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-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 ############################ 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