FYI. This refers to the UK Society of Archivists but their findings will be
relevant in many ways to our needs as well. 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of myself and no other company,
organization, association, entity, or board of directors,

 

Jesse Wilkins, CRM, CDIA+, ecmm, emmm, ermm

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From: The UK Records Management mailing list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Chambers
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:35 AM
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Subject: Society of Archivists Cloud Computing Project

 


Dear All
The Society of archivists is funding a research project by Aberystwyth
University. Please see request from them below.

regards

John

The Department of Information Studies (DIS) at Aberystwyth University is
currently running a research project looking into cloud storage requirements
for information professionals. The project is funded by the Society of
Archivists and the final report will be presented at the SoA annual
conference in September 2010.

The aim of the project is to address some of the issues arising from storing
electronic information in a virtual environment (the cloud) which is not
directly controlled by the originating organisation on their servers but
outside the firewall through an external cloud provider (for a detailed
definition of cloud computing see
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/) . We aim to produce a set
of legal, operational and security related considerations for information
professionals in the form of a toolkit that should be taken into account
when moving data into a cloud environment for primarily access and
computational reason. In order to fully consider the range of concerns of
information professionals about storing data in the cloud such as the
confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and compliance with
access legislation such as DP and FOI, we would like to consult the
community in the form of a short questionnaire. It is outside the scope of
this small project to consider preservation issue of information stored in
the cloud but we hope to look at that area in the future. 

We would be grateful for all information professionals whose organisations
already store information in the cloud or whose organisations are planning
to do so to complete the following questionnaire and maybe agree to be
contacted for further investigation at a later stage. We would also be
grateful, if members of the information profession could forward the
questionnaire to other colleagues in their organisation (legal or IT) who
have responsibility for managing data in the cloud. 

This research project is seen as an introductory study that seeks to provide
practitioners with a basis for a more structured discussion of the impact of
cloud computing on records and information management processes and we are
looking for active input from the information community.

The survey is available at  <http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/aber/soacloud>
http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/aber/soacloud and will close on 21st March
2010.

Should you have any further questions regarding the research project or this
survey, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Nicole Schulz                                                        Kirsten
Ferguson-Boucher

Teaching Fellow                                                   Lecturer
in Archives and Records Management

Department of Information Studies                      Department of
Information Studies

Aberystwyth University                                        Aberystwyth
University

Llanbadarn Fawr                                                  Llanbadarn
Fawr

Aberystwyth SY23 3AS                                         Aberystwyth
SY23 3AS

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622151                                     Tel: +44 (0)1970
622069

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Executive Director
Society of Archivists


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