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Seven Stories Skills Gap Analysis

Added by Hannah Green · last edited by Hannah Green · on Apr 18, 2012 (view change)

Implementing digital preservation practices at Seven Stories

Developing and implementing formal procedures and workflows for managing long-term preservation of digital material (both born-digital and digitised) in the Seven Stories Collection

	Role	Skill	Resource (yes/no/percentage)	Notes
Strategic Direction (keeping stakeholders onside & management of growth)	Collection Director	Yes	Yes (not 100%)
Storage/servers	Aero Networks & Ops Team	No	80%	Digital preservation server in place; need for some basic training and risk awareness raising for SR & AM
Operational management	Archivist & Conservator	Somewhat	Yes (not 100%)	Need for further training to ensure proper skillset for managing all aspects of digital preservation practices. Or is there scope for building partnerships with other regional archive repositories to share skills and develop joint strategies? Further develop North East region digital preservation working group. Digital preservation only a portion of the workload of both the archivist & conservator - need to work out how these roles fit into overall management of workload.
Formalising preservation workflows	Archivist & Conservator	Somewhat	Yes	Further training required for conservator. Scope for collaborating with other regional archive repositories to identify best practice and share skills?
Managing process of deposit & liaising with donors	Archivist	Yes	Yes (not 100%)	Issues to be addressed regarding managing how donors deposit digital material, and collecting necessary information from donors to ensure we secure the metadata we need for long-term preservation and management of digital collections. Significant impact on archivist's workload in early stages developing practices which work for our needs - how will this be managed?
Digital archives accessioning	Archivist	Somewhat	Yes (not 100%)	Further training required for archivist? Additional software/systems needed to manage digital material?
Preservation metadata	Archivist (& volunteers?)	Yes (archivist)	Yes (not 100%)	Scope to train volunteers in aspects of metadata creation and management to lessen impact on archivist's workload? Systems for automating parts of process?