Role confusion, change transfusions and standards intrusion in the digital repository environment

Role confusion, change transfusions and standards

intrusion in the digital repository environment

Aaron Collie, [email protected], @aaroncollie

I think digital preservation is a strategic direction that is too often operationalized as an individual responsibility and skill-set.

http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/seattle,1032

http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/social,1442

“We don’t want to have one person that we’ve brought in who has some cool tools and some pressure… and that we are all watching them.

We want to all be involved.”

-Erin O’Meara

Did you learn that in library school?!

• Change management

• Mission alignment

• Community organization

• Colleague empowerment

“Learning the hard way” cc laverrue

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

- Theodore M. Hesburgh

cc tim.hernquist

• Year 1 – Planning & Head Scratching• Year 2 – Implementation & Outcomes• Year 3 – Production & Growth

MSU Digital Curation Vision

Year 1 – PlanningCurrent State Desired State

Year 1 – PlanningProduction Milestones

Year 1 – PlanningCuratorial Tiers

Preservation Repository

Description and Access

Bit level preservation

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(e.g. Dark Archive)

(e.g. Exhibits)

(e.g. ETDs)

Year 2 – Outcomes

Preservation Repository

Description and Access

Bit level preservation

Digital Storage Working Group• Expanded to 48 TB array• Upgraded SAN to RAID 6• Purchased remote RAID 6 backup (SLA)• Added Offline Tape Backup• Provisioned for 5 year hardware refresh

Remote Local Tape

RSYNC AMANDA

Year 2 – Outcomes

Preservation Repository

Description and Access

Bit level preservation

Re-architecting storage project• Inventoried 3+ million files• Moved from project to client based

organization schema• Still working on organization of 15 years

of digital content

Year 2 – Outcomes

Preservation Repository

Description and Access

Bit level preservation

“FedCom” pilot project• Islandora stack (Fedora Commons,

Apache Solr, Drupal)• DC, MODS, ETD-MS, MARCXML• PREMIS, too• Preservation microservices

Year 3 – GrowthGrowing pains• ETD repository launched w/ 2500+ ETDs• Uncomfortable lack of documentation• Dev-to-production “workflow”• Legacy collections… yup, still there

Growing together• New positions for Digital Curation• Validated directions: Solr, FedCom, Derivative Creation,

Checksum Monitoring• Exposure via partnership…

Digital Scholarship

Collaborative17 Librarians

2 AULs

Data Services

1FTE

Digital Curation2.25 FTE

Digital Humanities

3.25 FTE

Year 3 – Growth

Role Confusion

If you can’t figure out whose job it is, form a working group; the more the merrier!

Change Transfusions

Out with the old, in with the new!Not so fast. See role confusion.

Standards Infusion

Which jargon are we using for this meeting, yours or mine?

Contact Information

Aaron Collie• [email protected]• @aaroncollie