Interesting, now on Doodle all respondents are expecting long term in
the context of 10 years, although one person said that was short for
long term; would have answered differently if it were 20.
BTW if you think a shorter term answer is right but daren't say so,
you don't have to use your real name... no, maybe that's not good
advice.
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On 25 Feb 2009, at 21:35, Chris Rusbridge wrote:
> Not much luck so far getting responses; a total of 8 votes. That's
> 4 for long term, and 2 each for medium and short term. I think
> there are more than 8 of you out there (;-)!
>
> Thinking that it's possible the Ideascale site is putting people
> off, I've created a Doodle poll with the same questions in it, at
> http://www.doodle.com/qswrycxhmx3y458e.
>
> Do please vote, if you are a repository manager (or can represent
> one) and haven't voted yet. I'll combine the two sources, but if
> you want to comment, do so either on this list, on the Ideascale
> site (URIs below), or the related blog post at http://
> digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2009/02/repositories-and-
> preservation.html.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Chris Rusbridge
> Director, Digital Curation Centre
> Email: [log in to unmask] Phone 0131 6513823
> University of Edinburgh
> Appleton Tower, Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE
>
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>
>
>
> On 23 Feb 2009, at 17:38, Chris Rusbridge wrote:
>
>> I have a question about how repository managers view their role in
>> relation to long term preservation.
>>
>> I’m a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital
>> Preservation and Access (hereafter BRTF). At our monthly
>> teleconference last week, we were talking about preservation
>> scenarios, and I suggested the Institutional Repository system,
>> adding that my investigations had shown that repository managers
>> did not (generally) feel they had long term preservation in their
>> brief. There was some consternation at this, and a question as to
>> whether this was based on UK repositories, as there was an
>> expressed feeling that US repositories generally would have
>> preservation as an aim.
>>
>> My comment was based on a number of ad hoc observations and
>> discussions over the years. But more recently I reported in an
>> analysis of commentary on my Research repository System ideas (see
>> http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/search/label/Research%
>> 20Repository%20System) on discussions that had taken place on
>> Ideascale last year, during preparatory work for a revision of the
>> JISC Repositories Roadmap.
>>
>> In this Ideascale discussion, I put forward an Idea relating to
>> Long Term preservation: “The repository should be a full OAIS
>> preservation system”, with the text: “We should at least have this
>> on the table. I think repositories are good for preservation, but
>> the question here is whether they should go much further than they
>> currently do in attempting to invest now to combat the effects of
>> later technology and designated community knowledge base
>> change...” See http://jiscrepository.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/
>> 2276-784. This Idea turned out to be the most unpopular Idea in
>> the entire discussion, now having gathered only 3 votes for and 16
>> votes against (net -13).
>>
>> Rather shocked at this, I formulated another Idea, see http://
>> jiscrepository.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/2643-784: “Repository
>> should aspire to make contents accessible and usable over the
>> medium term”, with the text: “A repository should be for content
>> which is required and expected to be useful over a significant
>> period. It may host more transient content, but by and large the
>> point of a repository is persistence. While suggesting a
>> repository should be a "full OAIS" has not proved acceptable to
>> this group so far, investment in a repository and this need for
>> persistence suggest that repository managers should aim to make
>> their content both accessible and usable over the medium (rather
>> than short) term. For the purposes of this exercise, let's suggest
>> factors of around 3: short term 3 years, medium term around 10
>> years, long term around 30 years plus. Ten years is a reasonable
>> period to aspire to; it justifies investment, but is unlikely to
>> cover too many major content migrations.
>>
>> “To achieve this, I think repository management should assess
>> their repository and its policies. Using OAIS at a high level as a
>> yard stick would be appropriate. Full compliance would not be
>> required, but thought to each major concept and element would be
>> good practice.”
>>
>> This Idea was much more successful, with 13 votes for and only one
>> vote against, for a net positive 12 votes. (For comparison, the
>> most popular Idea, “Define repository as part of the user’s
>> (author/researcher/learner) workflow” received 31 votes for and 3
>> against, net 28.)
>>
>> Now it may be that the way the first Idea was phrased was the
>> cause of its unpopularity. It appears that the 4 letters OAIS turn
>> a lot of people off!
>>
>> So, here are 3 possible statements:
>>
>> 1) My repository does not aim for accessibility and/or usability
>> of its contents beyond the short term (say 3 years) (http://
>> jiscrepository.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/14100-784 )
>>
>> 2) My repository aims for accessibility and/or usability of its
>> contents for the medium term (say 4 to 10 years) (http://
>> jiscrepository.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/14101-784 )
>>
>> 3) My repository aims for accessibility and/or usability of its
>> contents for the long term (say greater than 10 years). (http://
>> jiscrepository.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/14102-784 )
>>
>> Could repository managers tell me which they feel is the
>> appropriate answer for them? Just click on the appropriate URI and
>> vote it up (you may have to register, I’m not sure).
>>
>> (ermmm, I hope JISC doesn’t mind my using the site like that… I
>> think it’s within the original spirit!)
>>
>> (This will also be a blog post...)
>>
>> --
>> Chris Rusbridge
>> Director, Digital Curation Centre
>> Email: [log in to unmask] Phone 0131 6513823
>> University of Edinburgh
>> Appleton Tower, Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE
>>
>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>
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