[Dspace-general] Take the DuraSpace “Small Archives Group” Preservation Survey

[Carol Minton Morris]

--sent via Ari Davidow--

Small archives represent the long tail of cultural heritage. Most of  
us are coping with inadequate resources available for addressing our  
primary missions, and lack the time, staff, skills, and other  
resources to address long-term access to that cultural heritage. This  
includes the challenge of locating and securing tools and resources to  
address the long-term preservation required to assure that access.

The mission of the DuraSpace Small Archives Group is to address these  
needs. As a community, not only can we further preservation access and  
foster knowledge  sharing, but we can collaborate. This community is  
intended for the thousands of small cultural heritage organizations  
who lack resources to implement a solution on their own. For most of  
us, a “small archive” is a cultural heritage institution with one or  
fewer software developers on staff, perhaps even without an active  
webmaster.

To ensure that we are focusing on those concerns most relevant to  
small archives, we would appreciate your responses to a short (10-15  
minutes) survey to better understand what is being done, and what is  
needed to ensure long-term access and preservation in small cultural  
heritage institutions.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229DKEFJWUP

We hope to share results of the survey at a BOF session at the Museum  
Computer Network conference in  Portland, OR on November 11-14, 2009  
and at the DISH conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on December  
8-10, 2009.  We will also share results and information online at our  
wiki home.

You can find out more about the Small Archives group at:
http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCCWG/Small+Archives

Click on "Get Involved!" to find out how you can be part of the  
DuraSpace Small Archives group.

We greatly appreciate your participation.

Ari Davidow
Director of Online Strategy
Jewish Women's Archive
http://jwa.org/

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