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A project on cloud computing funded by the Society of Archivists has been announced (see below). They’re doing a survey, which may be of interest to delegates from the JISC Repositories and the Cloud event.

 

Sarah

 


From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Chambers
Sent: 04 March 2010 17:35
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Society of Archivists Cloud Computing Project

 

The Department of Information Studies (DIS) at Aberystwyth University is currently running a research project looking into cloud storage requirements for information professionals. The project is funded by the Society of Archivists and the final report will be presented at the SoA annual conference in September 2010.

The aim of the project is to address some of the issues arising from storing electronic information in a virtual environment (the cloud) which is not directly controlled by the originating organisation on their servers but outside the firewall through an external cloud provider (for a detailed definition of cloud computing see http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/) . We aim to produce a set of legal, operational and security related considerations for information professionals in the form of a toolkit that should be taken into account when moving data into a cloud environment for primarily access and computational reason. In order to fully consider the range of concerns of information professionals about storing data in the cloud such as the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and compliance with access legislation such as DP and FOI, we would like to consult the community in the form of a short questionnaire. It is outside the scope of this small project to consider preservation issue of information stored in the cloud but we hope to look at that area in the future.

We would be grateful for all information professionals whose organisations already store information in the cloud or whose organisations are planning to do so to complete the following questionnaire and maybe agree to be contacted for further investigation at a later stage. We would also be grateful, if members of the information profession could forward the questionnaire to other colleagues in their organisation (legal or IT) who have responsibility for managing data in the cloud.

This research project is seen as an introductory study that seeks to provide practitioners with a basis for a more structured discussion of the impact of cloud computing on records and information management processes and we are looking for active input from the information community.

The survey is available at http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/aber/soacloud and will close on 21st March 2010.

Should you have any further questions regarding the research project or this survey, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Nicole Schulz                                                        Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher

Teaching Fellow                                                   Lecturer in Archives and Records Management

Department of Information Studies                      Department of Information Studies

Aberystwyth University                                        Aberystwyth University

Llanbadarn Fawr                                                  Llanbadarn Fawr

Aberystwyth SY23 3AS                                         Aberystwyth SY23 3AS

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622151                                     Tel: +44 (0)1970 622069

Email: [log in to unmask]                                          Email: [log in to unmask]

 

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Preservation Researcher

(HATII & Digital Curation Centre)

 

Tel: +44(0)141 3303549

Skype: sarah.jones.ahds

Web: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/staff/sarahjones/#d.en.116142