****Apologies for cross posting****
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.
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Behalf Of John Chambers
Sent: 04 March 2010 17:35
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Subject: Society of Archivists
Cloud Computing Project
The
Department of Information Studies (DIS) at 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 Teaching
Fellow
Lecturer in Archives and Records Management Department of Information
Studies
Department of Information Studies Llanbadarn
Fawr
Llanbadarn Fawr Aberystwyth SY23
3AS
Aberystwyth SY23 3AS Tel: +44 (0)1970
622151
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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