Works in Progress Webinar: Using metrics to gain insights into born-digital archival workflows
Join this webinar to learn how data about born-digital archival workflows can provide insights that may support decision-making and resource allocation.
Presenters
- Lara Friedman-Shedlov, Digital Records Archivist, University of Minnesota Libraries
- Carol Kussmann, Digital Preservation Analyst, University of Minnesota Libraries
Description
Since 2014, the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections has tracked time spent ingesting and processing born-digital archival materials. After refining data collection in 2020, Archives and Special Collections staff compiled over four years of workflow data, revealing new insights into task duration, storage metrics, and resource allocation.
In this webinar, Lara Friedman-Shedlov and Carol Kussmann will share observations they were (and were not) able to make based on this data, and the ways they’ve been able to use it to improve the digital processing workflow and advocate for additional resources. They will also discuss the challenges of gathering and analyzing this type of data.
Join this webinar to learn how data about born-digital archival workflows can provide insights that may support decision-making and resource allocation.
All affiliates of OCLC Research Library Partnership organizations are invited to participate.
Date
17 April 2025
Time
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
Live webinar sessions are exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, but the recordings are publicly available to all.