Workflow Optimization for Digitization and Digital Curation

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Workflow Optimization for Digitization and Digital Curation Mark V. Sullivan and Laurie N. Taylor

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Workflow Optimization for Digitization and Digital Curation

Mark V. Sullivan and Laurie N. Taylor

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Our Workflows

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Our Workflows

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Our Workflows

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Metadata

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Average Times:

Bound books 7 hoursDisbound books 2 hoursarchival/photos 11 pages / hourlarge format 2.5 hoursborn digital 50 pages / hourprint newspapers 40 pages / hour

vended digitization, newspapers on microfilm, NDNP-compliant 210 pages / hour

vended digitization, newspapers on microfilm, non-compliant 29 pages / hour

oral histories, 30 min; born digital; PDF transcript

1 set (audio and PDF) / hour

Evaluations of Our Workflows

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Scale Changes Everything

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Big, radical ideas are rarely needed to succeed. More often, it’s a handful of basic, solid, good ideas – applied correctly – that are needed.

Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management

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Integrate / support overall operations• Digital curation lifecycle• Leverage capacity where it exists• Constraints• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow • Tasks, processes, and projects; parts, flows, and wholes

Impacts / Concerns• Beware of false optimization (how to ensure reliability)• Managing multiple projects • Scale changes everything

Tools• Schedules• Documentation

Core Concepts

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Digital curation lifecycle

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Leverage capacity where it exists;(Why to love) Constraints

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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

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Tasks, process, and projects; parts, flows, and wholes

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• Beware of false optimization

• Managing multiple projects

• Scale changes everything

Impacts/Concerns

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Schedules as Tools

• Communication • Forcing Function • Tracking/Assessing

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Fixed Resources: Equipment; Software; SpaceHuman Resources: Production (tasks and complete process); Project Management

Scheduling Resources

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Human Resources

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• Production/line/digitization work = n• Project Management = n * 33-66%• Total = n * 166%

• Full time = 122 hours / month– Project Management, 66%

• Production = 73 hours• Project management = 48 hours

– Project Management, 33%• Production = 92 hours• Project management = 30 hours

Productivity

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Creating Schedules

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Estimating Workflow Times

Time per task for: 1) a single item 2) a set of similar items

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• What task requires the most time?

• What task presents the most risk (likely to fail itself or area between tasks that can fail)?

• What are the dependencies for each task?

• What are the impacts for other areas?

• Where are the checkpoints (alpha, omega, in between)?

Questions for Workflow Evaluation

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Testing the Workflow on a Schedule