Comments on: Link-O-Rama: Reports Edition

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:00:07 +0000

Hi Merrilee, and thank you for your comment. One of the things that I am learning at my job is how the organizational/social and technical side may be very different but are both vital. EAD, like some of the digital preservation solutions we have at work, are technical in nature. However, without organizational buy-in and support they simply will not work, no matter how well the code is written. I think the report does a great job of balancing the two and I hope similar, future publications will follow suit. Thanks again!

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:30 +0000

Hey Matt, thanks for the comment. I put you and the Guide together like a week after I had added it to the list of resources for our workshop. In my original draft of the post I gave you a shout-out, but I removed it because I did not want people to get the impression I was linking to it as a favor. It looks great and I will take your suggestion on writing a review when I compete it. As a heads up, I am totally going to send you an email soon asking you to write a post on getting published! I am also in the process of requesting that we buy a copy of the Guide here at work so you can get some of those sweet archival literature residuals

By: Merrilee

Merrilee — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:41:08 +0000

…And thank you for giving our report a plug! We really struggled with putting both the social and technical barriers into one document and how to balance that, since they are really apples and oranges. I’m glad it worked for you!

By: mgschultz

mgschultz — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:20:27 +0000

Thanks for promoting the Guide Lance, and being such a cool nerd…this is that publication I mentioned in an email a while back ago that I was looking forward to getting published. It was so much fun collaborating on this book with the folks at the Cooperative. Let me know what you think…you should write a review or something. You’ve got great insight and sensibility into the technical and philosophical issues addressed in it, having been at ICPSR!