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Birmingham Archives and Heritage skills gap analysis

skillsgapanalysis

Added by Rachel MacGregor · last edited by Rachel MacGregor · on Sep 20, 2012 (view change)

Activity	Role	Skill	Resource and issues
Strategic direction for digital preservation and access	Senior Library and Archives Managers	Some	Awareness of the issues but need to raise profile across the senior team. Need to draw on pre-existing knowledge and skills which are there but scattered across the team.
Developing and maintaining digitisation preservation strategies	Senior Archivist, Digitisation and Outreach	Some	Some way towards acquiring the skills needed to develop a strategy but lack of time allocated to the task.
Operational manager: preservation	Senior Archivist, Digitisation and Outreach	Some	20% - severely under-resourced with little time either to manage current situation or update skills.
Operational manager: digitisation	Responsibility split between several roles	Yes	Need to ensure co ordination of roles between digitisation and content creation
Storage/server management	Sysadmin/Digitisation team	Yes/No	Issues to tackle re responsibilities for access and preservation of assets. Skills available but need to be utilised effectively. Need for dialogue between practitioners and technical support.
Digital Archives Accessioning	Senior Archivist, Collections	Some	Not currently formally accepting digital records - awaiting development of preservation strategy and policy. Would need training and development of policy and workflow.
Preservation metadata	Digitisation technician	Some	Digitisation technicians with skills appropriate to the role but would need development of preservation strategy and some training regarding preservation issues. Major issue is lack of resource.
Digitisation metadata	Digitisation Archivist and technician	Yes	Draft document on standards available and
Systems development	Software developer	No	None: would need to buy-in, train or recruit... Need to build on relationship between IT support provider and preservation staff.
Operating preservation workflows	Senior Archivist, Digitisation and Outreach	Some	20% - severely under-resourced with little time either to manage current situation or update skills.
Access to collections	Senior Archivist, Digitisation and Outreach	Some	Some work being done on development of Asset Management system which should allow access to digital content, but work still required on preservation strategies.