Hi Meg, Thanks for starting off this conversation. I think it's a great idea. It's a timely topic for me too because I am in the midst of trying to define for my institution what an effective digital preservation unit would look like. I also know that this is of interest to colleagues in other libraries and archives I've talked to. Andrea > -----Original Message----- > From: The NDSA Standards working group list [mailto:NDSA- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Meg Phillips > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:06 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [NDSA-STANDARDS] NDSA Standards and Practices - staffing and > organizing digital preservation > > 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:NDSA-STANDARDS-SIGNOFF- > [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