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