[Asis-l] Preservation capabilities: How to assess? How to improve?

[Christoph Becker]

Apologies for cross postings . . . .

There is still some time to fill the BenchmarkDP survey on preservation 
capability assessment - and if you have a specific opinion on how 
preservation capabilities and processes SHOULD be assessed, consider 
sharing it at the CAIW workshop at IPRES in Lisbon this September! 
Contributions do not have to be very formal, practical goals and 
requirements and experiences are very welcome. The deadline has been 
extended to July 26 to give our contributors a bit more time. More 
information at the workshop site 
(http://benchmark-dp.org/2013/06/13/capability-assessment-and-improvement-workshop-at-ipres-2013/).

and:Click Here to Join the Survey 
<https://docs.googlehttps//docs.google.com/forms/d/1VkbYjobt4yLBmejmc2rijWOArsWDDZjNcaQ3-bVdrzs/viewform>(http://bit.ly/104sg5x) 




**** Preservation capabilities: How to assess? How to improve? The 
BenchmarkDP survey ***


Digital Preservation is making progress in terms of tool development, 
progressive establishment of standards and increasing activity in user 
communities, but there is a wide gap of approaches to systematically 
assess and improve how organizations go about achieving their 
preservation goals. There is little systematic, well-founded work on 
assessing organizational processes and capabilities in a transparent, 
comparable way.


We have recently started a project to change that, and we are inviting 
you to participate in a survey to assess the community's perceptions and 
desires with respect to assessment and improvement.


The BenchmarkDP project is issuing a survey to find how practitioners 
identify and use methods to assess and improve digital preservation 
activities in their organization. It is an online questionnaire that 
will start a communication channel for further engagement. The results 
will be presented at the Capability Assessment and Improvement workshop 
<http://benchmark-dp.org/2013/06/13/capability-assessment-and-improvement-workshop-at-ipres-2013/>during 
iPres 2013. Results will be aggregated and anonymized so that they are 
not attributable to an individual or organisation. The consultation has 
opened today and will close on July 26. Join your colleagues and ensure 
your perspective can be heard!


Click Here to Join the Survey 
<https://docs.googlehttps//docs.google.com/forms/d/1VkbYjobt4yLBmejmc2rijWOArsWDDZjNcaQ3-bVdrzs/viewform>(http://bit.ly/104sg5x)


The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete. More reasons why you 
should complete it and more information on the project can be found 
below.  Please feel welcome to share this with colleagues who you think 
are interested!


<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VkbYjobt4yLBmejmc2rijWOArsWDDZjNcaQ3-bVdrzs/viewform>

Who are we?


BenchmarkDP is a 3-year research project funded by the Vienna Science 
and Technology Fund (WWTF). It has started in November 2012 and is 
directed by Christoph Becker at the Vienna University of Technology 
(ICT2012-46).

A core goal is to enable organizations to systematically improve their 
preservation capabilities. As a first step, we invite you to share your 
challenges, perspectives and requirements. For more information go to 
http://benchmark-dp.org <http://benchmark-dp.org/>

Why participate?


We establish and will maintain an on-going dialogue with a wide-range of 
users, producers, funders and practitioners to engage directly with the 
very people who will benefit from the resources our project will produce.

The goals of this survey are to analyze organizational processes and 
organization's views on how to measure, assess and improve preservation 
processes. We solicit your opinions and priorities on the value of 
systematic assessment and requirements on how it would work for you.

The results of the project will be freely available, so if you are 
interested in improving your digital preservation capabilities, this can 
be the first step step to influencing the outcome!

Who should participate?


This survey is especially aimed at practitioners and institutions that 
have an interest in identifying and use methods to assess and improve 
digital preservation activities in their organization.


How long does it take?


The survey has only 38 short questions and will take less than 20 minutes.

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