Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices: a Social Network Analysis of Three Academic Departments at Colorado State UniversityED PEYRONNIN
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices• We seem at times, to be living in what
Umberto Eco has called an “epoch of forgetting”.”(Kuny, 1997)
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation PracticesProblem• We have shifted to a new modality – Digital• The new modality is transforming our stored
knowledge• How do we ensure the preservation of this
knowledge?• Cases of data lost due to (relatively short-term)
obsolescence and neglect exist• Data storage and data preservation are two very
different concepts.
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
Personal, professional and organizational data management responsibilities and behavior have not been clearly defined, articulated or communicated
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation PracticesRemedy - Higher education institutions should develop communication strategies to:
• Create dialogue among all stakeholders• Refine and articulate existing standards• Consolidate repetitious standards • Eliminate conflicting standards• Create new standards• Promote knowledge of digital practices and
adoption of standards
Research questionsR1 – How do researchers communicate and learn about digital data management practices at a major research university?
R1a – How do specific events such as workshops, training, or data-loss impact digital data management practices?
R1b – How does local resource access impact digital data management practices?
R1c – How do external stimuli, such as the requirement for data management plans, impact digital data management practices?
R2 – How can communication improve digital data management practices?
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
Method - Social Network Analysis• A relational approach• Causal pressures are inherent in social structure• Network analysis is a set of methods for
detecting and measuring the magnitude of the pressures
• …how an individual lives depends in large part on how that individual is tied into the larger web of social connections.
INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysis), by Lin Freeman
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
• SNA largely studies dyadic attributes such as• Social Roles: boss of, teacher of, friend of• Cognitive: knows, views as similar• Actions: talks to, has lunch with, attacks• Co-occurrence: is in the same club as, has the
same color hair as
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
Area of interest • Three departments at CSU with different
academic and research perspective• Atmospheric Research – Large number of scientific research
grants• CIS – Instruct the rules of technology• Anthropology – Large academic area
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
Atmospheric Research CIS Anthropology
Faculty Count 16 11 12
Faculty Count
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Fall 2007
Spring 2008
Fall 2008
Spring 2009
Fall 2009
Spring 2010
Fall 2010
Spring 2011
Fall 2011
Spring 2012
Fall 2012
Atmospheric Research Graduate 94 81 86 86 83 81 88 84 93 81 8716 Undergraduate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 94 81 86 86 83 81 88 84 93 81 87
CIS GraduateUndergraduate 64 70 74 84 100 183 163 157 148 163 173Total 64 70 74 84 100 183 163 157 148 163 173
Anthropology Graduate 55 48 48 46 56 52 56 49 54 48 44Undergraduate 169 159 188 171 175 188 216 240 262 285 290Total 224 207 236 217 231 240 272 289 316 333 334
Student Count
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Atmospheric Science $20,761,742 $19,412,967 $55,614,884 $27,452,615 $30,736,804
Computer Information Systems $155,329 $170,595 $0 $43,135 $143,633
Anthropology $708,201 $1,132,304 $1,985,053 $598,064 $579,949
Research Grant Dollars
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation PracticesCLIR interview questions (Spencer, L. J. a. A. A. (2012). The Problem of Data: Data Management and Curation Practices Among University Researchers. Retrieved from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub154.)
• Demographics• Background• Data creation/analysis• Collaboration• Preservation• Personal practices and training• Extra-departmental activities
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices
Data Collection and Reporting• Collect Institutional data• Interview two faculty from each department using
amended CLIR questionnaire• Develop and distribute survey to the three
departments• Create and analyze matrices• Conduct in depth interviews with one faculty member
from each department• Write report
Paths for Adoption of Digital Preservation Practices• Thank you!• Questions, Comments, Recommendations
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