Location
Cook Library 206Z & Room A
Presentation Type
Short Concurrent Session
Start Date
28-4-2023 2:30 PM
Description
Working with data and bits requires continuous reality checks. For institutions that have accepted the responsibility of maintaining digital assets, self-assessment is a key component of digital collection stewardship. Organizations can make use of benchmarks, data-driven reporting, and surveys to record and communicate digital capabilities. Engaging in this reflective work aids in determining if capacity exists to realistically meet the requirements for providing long-term access to digital resources. For a repository to gain the trust of its content depositors and users, the data must be reliable and retrievable. These expectations presume that data will be refreshed and migrated for as long as the item is needed. Without investment in these integral components of digital asset management (DAM), perpetual use of digital repositories is a challenging promise for stewards to keep.
This presentation will discuss strategies grounded in DAM practices for documentation and assessment, and ways to communicate findings that are characteristic of trustworthy, acceptable, and unsustainable digital repositories. DAM utilizes data assessment tools to strategically assess and plan for reliable and long-term collection maintenance. With this holistic approach, DAM follows criteria and tenets of data integrity, and places emphasis on frameworks of trusted and acceptable repositories. Information yielded from these studies detail the state of infrastructure, management, and sustainability. In institutions with unsustainable models (systems, people, resources), DAM can communicate and chart a course towards data-driven decision-making.
Reality Bytes: Strategies for Evaluating and Communicating the Virtual Realities of Digital Repositories
Cook Library 206Z & Room A
Working with data and bits requires continuous reality checks. For institutions that have accepted the responsibility of maintaining digital assets, self-assessment is a key component of digital collection stewardship. Organizations can make use of benchmarks, data-driven reporting, and surveys to record and communicate digital capabilities. Engaging in this reflective work aids in determining if capacity exists to realistically meet the requirements for providing long-term access to digital resources. For a repository to gain the trust of its content depositors and users, the data must be reliable and retrievable. These expectations presume that data will be refreshed and migrated for as long as the item is needed. Without investment in these integral components of digital asset management (DAM), perpetual use of digital repositories is a challenging promise for stewards to keep.
This presentation will discuss strategies grounded in DAM practices for documentation and assessment, and ways to communicate findings that are characteristic of trustworthy, acceptable, and unsustainable digital repositories. DAM utilizes data assessment tools to strategically assess and plan for reliable and long-term collection maintenance. With this holistic approach, DAM follows criteria and tenets of data integrity, and places emphasis on frameworks of trusted and acceptable repositories. Information yielded from these studies detail the state of infrastructure, management, and sustainability. In institutions with unsustainable models (systems, people, resources), DAM can communicate and chart a course towards data-driven decision-making.