On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:34:59 -0400, Chris Manly <[email protected]> wrote:
You might want to talk to your university archivist (if you have one)
and/or someone in the library (which is sometimes where the archivist is
but not always). I know we've got active efforts to figure out
repositories for research data and other work, and if your library (or
whoever is responsible for institutional data) isn't thinking about this
sort of thing, they should be.
I have to agree with this, especially for a higher-ed. Library Sciences is
about preservation of data, which is a subtle difference from
disaster-recovery. They're trained in asking the right questions, even if
they don't know how to do it off the bat.
We had defacto-archives at my previous jobs. The
office/departmental/central file-server that began life as a NetWare
machine back in the late 1980's and 90's, evolved into a Windows machine,
and who knows what it is right now. The right now whatever-it-is still has
files that date from the first year of service on it. Some of it is even
still readable, though that decreases with every rev of MS Office that
comes out. Most of their recent 'archives' duties is increasingly the
mailbox archive files.
We had begun similar questioning at my old job, but it hadn't gotten
anywhere beyond informal questions passed in hallways. This is the kind of
project that needs some management grunt behind it to get people over the
social hurdles, and that's before tacking the problem of budget.
Greg Riedesel
--
Law of Probable Dispersal:
Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
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