Restoring Trust Relationships within Collaborative Digital Preservation Federations

4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : Conference PresentationsDate: 2009-05-19 01:00 PM – 02:30 PMThe authors extend their process for creating and establishing trust relationships to include steps for restoring trust relationships after catastrophic events. Part of this model will include best practices for business continuity relationships and will integrate trust models from Holland and Lockett (1998) and Ring and Van de Ven (1994) and how they can be applied to a process for trust restoration after periods of disaster or critical data loss. These models provide key frameworks for understanding how trust can be utilized for collaborative start points as well as for collaborative recovery points from physical natural disaster or critical data loss

Contemporary Archival Appraisal Methods and Preservation Decision-Making

Archival administrators are beginning the search for administrative tools that rationalize difficult preservation priority decision-making processes. Some are suggesting that the new appraisal literature be evaluated for its application to preservation selection. This article reviews the literature covering archival appraisal\u27s role in the process of selection for preservation in archives, and addresses recent efforts to create archival preservation assessment and selection tools. It also provides overviews of some modern appraisal models which are intended for collections and preservation archivists who are working with selection-for-preservation issues. The author suggests that archivists need to concern themselves less with implementing preservation selection tools. They must concentrate first on understanding the values that make archival records significant, and then rationalize their preservation selection decision-making processes. Then, and only then, should the decisions\u27 hierarchy and flow be incorporated into a preservation assessment and selection tool that is adaptable to individual archival institutions, yet consistent enough to yield comparable data

Institutional Repositories and the Need for "Value-added" Services

Presentation made at the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2006 Task Force MeetingInstitutional Repositories are moving into a new phase beyond the initial model of store, organize and access intellectual output. The growth industry for IRs may be around identifying and implementing constructive ways to use the scholarly information they contain. We need to integrate IRs into the "information fabric" of our campuses’ academic and business processes in terms of university goals and faculty needs

Moving Libraries into Modern Knowledge Services

Libraries are expanding their horizons. They are striving to work with knowledge and information in a myriad of forms to become an even more vital resource. They are growing nontraditional services to create, communicate, and capture knowledge for their parent institutions. When we, as librarians, focus only on information produced through traditional publishing processes, we limit ourselves and miss huge opportunities to be an effective knowledge resource. We can no longer view ourselves as professionals who only bring external information into our organizations; this is nothing more than a one-way path for information, and for our profession. Instead, we need to be information and knowledge professionals, observing our organizations' core activities, determining the information implications of those activities, analyzing information flows and needs, and diffusing new knowledge and information. We must be the providers of the solutions demanded by our organizations. This paper will introduce you to the odyssey of the Institute of Paper Science and Technology's (IPST) former William R. Haselton Library and Information Center and its experience of developing new knowledge-building services. The drivers behind developing the new resources and services will be discussed, as well as how the library was opportunistic in identifying the Institute's needs, marketing its ability to provide the services, and integrating them into the library's repertoire to create the new and improved Haselton Library and Knowledge Center

Data Curation Program Development in U.S. Universities: The Georgia Institute of Technology Example

The curation of scientific research data at U.S. universities is a story of enterprising individuals and of incremental progress. A small number of libraries and data centers who see the possibilities of becoming “digital information management centers” are taking entrepreneurial steps to extend beyond their traditional information assets and include managing scientific and scholarly research data. The Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) has had a similar development path toward a data curation program based in its library. This paper will articulate GT’s program development, which the author offers as an experience common in U.S. universities. The main characteristic is a program devoid of top-level mandates and incentives, but rich with independent, “bottom-up” action. The paper will address program antecedents and context, inter-institutional partnerships that advance the library’s curation program, library organizational developments, partnerships with campus research communities, and a proposed model for curation program development. It concludes that despite the clear need for data curation put forth by researchers such as the groups of neuroscientists and bioscientists referenced in this paper, the university experience examined suggests that gathering resources for developing data curation programs at the institutional level is proving to be a quite onerous. However, and in spite of the challenges, some U.S. research universities are beginning to establish perceptible data curation programs

Contemporary Archival Appraisal Methods and Preservation Decision-Making

Reprinted by permission of the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org.Archival administrators are beginning the search for administrative tools that rationalize difficult preservation priority decision-making processes. Some are suggesting that the new appraisal literature be evaluated for its application to preservation selection. This article reviews the literature covering archival appraisal's role in the process of selection for preservation in archives, and addresses recent efforts to create archival preservation assessment and selection tools. It also provides overviews of some modern appraisal models which are intended for collections and preservation archivists who are working with selection-for-preservation issues. The author suggests that archivists need to concern themselves less with implementing preservation selection tools. They must concentrate first on understanding the values that make archival records significant, and then rationalize their preservation selection decision-making processes. Then, and only then, should the decisions' hierarchy and flow be incorporated into a preservation assessment and selection tool that is adaptable to individual archival institutions, yet consistent enough to yield comparable data.www.archivists.org

Mapping Marine Benthic Biodiversity in Wales.

The UK is committed through international agreements and European obligations to the establishment of an ecologically coherent network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to conserve marine ecosystems and biodiversity. The Welsh Assembly Government has committed to using the new Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation provided in the Marine and Coastal Access Act to create sites afforded a high level of protection. In addition the Marine and Coastal Access Act allows for the establishment of a system of Marine Spatial Planning in Welsh waters. The identification of areas of high biodiversity could be helpful for planning both Marine Protected Areas and for Marine Spatial Planning. Diverse communities can provide resilience to environmental perturbations (Petchey & Gaston 2009); the identification and protection of areas of high marine biodiversity can contribute to an ecosystem-based approach to the management of our seas. Furthermore, identifying which areas are most important for biodiversity not only yields benefits for the maintenance of ecosystem structure and functioning but can also enable cost effective prioritisation of areas for marine protection. The current study builds on work from previous studies at a UK-wide and regional level (Hiscock & Breckels 2007, Langmead et al. 2008) to develop an approach for mapping marine benthic biodiversity and apply it to Wales’ sea are