What a great idea Fred, and sorely needed in corporate America today. I'm amazed at the number of corporations that don't have Records Managers, never mind Archivists or Historians. We see a few corporations that have recognized this need, or wish they had been more proactive after the loss of historically significant information or artifacts because nobody knew what to do with them. We have such a rich history in corporations, especially American manufacturing companies where records and archival projects took a back seat to layoffs and outsourced manufacturing offshore.
I would be happy to be a guest lecturer in support of your education initiatives and may be able to provide you with some corporate contacts to add additional real-world experiences to your classroom environment and be potential candidates for the final course project.
Good luck with the course.
Bob
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frederic Grevin
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 8:30 PM
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Subject: Digital Preservation for student use
Good day all,
I am teaching a course on “Digital Preservation”, for the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College (a Senior College of the City University of New York), during the Spring semester of 2012 (which runs from the end of January through the end of May).
I’m looking for a final course project. The final course project is worth 40% of the total course grade. I’m addressing this to the listserv, because its subscribers represent a wide variety of environments, so I hope some will be able (and willing) to respond.
The desired project should have the following characteristics:
· Focused on a CORPORATE environment, rather than in a traditional archival, governmental, library, or museum environment.
o What I mean by corporate is industries such as oil and gas; utilities (power generation and transmission; communications; or other), aerospace; automotive; shipbuilding; infrastructure (water supply; transportation networks [all three modes]; architecture and engineering); insurance; financial services, or anything else that involves the long-term (more than 25 year) retention of records.
· Be of such a nature such that a group of graduate-level students can perform an analysis of basic issues, and develop a set of recommendations, in roughly six weeks.
o In my mind, complexity is a more important limiting factor than scale. What I mean by “complexity” is a project that has so many significant factors that it would take more time than is available for the students to work with it.
o This is a group project; I estimate that between 4 and 5 groups of 5 students each will be involved.
· Sufficient English-language material available publicly for the students to research the project.
· Ideally, direct communication with persons well-versed in the project.
· Ideally, a real project, not just a theoretical scenario.
RATIONALE:
The reason for focusing on the corporate world, rather than the traditional archival, governmental, library, or museum worlds, is that I want my students to discover the need for digital preservation in the corporate world. The students will have to learn how to communicate in an environment which rarely, if ever, thinks of archivists (digital or otherwise) as being relevant to it in any way. They will have to begin developing the ability to communicate with the “C-level” people who approve (and fund) projects in the corporate world.
While I appreciate that this concept and its rationale could become topics for discussion on the listserv, I would appreciate answers focussed on the need for a project of this type.
Thank you in advance for your help and support.
Fred
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