Digital Preservation Services Portfolio
Systems and Tools
Business ownership over tools, systems, and services that advance digital preservation and archiving activities. Some responsibilities include but aren't limited to:
Liaise with library leadership with respect to applicable policies
Create and maintain preservation and usage policies
Manage systems (including the DRS, ePADD, and Archive-It) to encourage appropriate use, initial contact for service, provides context related to other services at Harvard and beyond
Coordinate preservation audits
Work with the Library’s financial group to manage finances and cost model
Create and periodically review high-level roadmap for sequencing enhancements and major bugs
Represent the users’ interests/needs and preservation needs of the content
Coordinate development of high-level functional requirements as needed
Monitor and assess external preservation tools and services to determine applicability toward meeting user and/or preservation requirements
Participates in review of user interface designs
Participate in storage refresh planning and decisions by specifying preservation requirements
Conduct growth estimates for storage and infrastructure planning
Support
Consultations
Design workflows around supported systems
Create and maintain preservation plans including format migrations
Produce DRS and preservation reports
Monitor and advise on new and obsolescent formats and technology
Develop and maintain DRS content models
Sign off on changes to content characterization
Perform fixes to content and metadata as needed
Perform large-scale deletions or expungements when necessary
Produce reports on content and metadata as needed
Analyze content identified as potentially having viruses
Research and Development
Innovative advancement of new systems and services
Piloting and testing beta systems to determine whether they are appropriate for long-term adoption
Outreach and Education
Provide preservation guidance and consultation services to faculty, staff, and students
Engage in community forums and conduct in-person interviews when necessary to elicit user feedback
Distribution of Roles and Responsibilities