[Preservenw] [Dpworkshop] Preservation Survey - DuraSpace Small Archives Group - please forward as seems useful (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:44:05 -0400
From: Ari Davidow <ADavidow at jwa.org>
To: DPWorkshop at icpsr.umich.edu
Subject: [Dpworkshop] Preservation Survey - DuraSpace Small Archives Group -
     please forward as seems useful

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

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.  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:

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


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

You can also participate by clicking:
http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCCWG/SA-Get+Involved!

We greatly appreciate your participation.

Many thanks,
Ari Davidow


Ari Davidow
Director of Online Strategy
Jewish Women's Archive, http://jwa.org <http://www.jwa.org/>
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adavidow at jwa.org

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