This is an overview of the DRS Futures project updates as of December 2022. For the full update, please visit the Monthly Reports page.
Current Project Status:
- Project Executive Committee had a successful kick-off meeting in December 2022. The Committee engaged in a Headline exercise developed by the Digital Preservation Consultant. The headline exercise resulted in the team learning about the needs of Harvard executive stakeholders as they relate to the DRS Futures project.
- The Project Architect, Stefano Cossu, in collaboration with other team members, is reviewing current solution architecture and developing foundational technical principles to be used for evaluation of preservation system landscape.
- Senior BA, Miriam Leigh and Project Architect Stefano Cossu are interviewing current DRS clients at Harvard to gather information about current system workflows and desires for improvement.
- The team has presented the project to Harvard Library stakeholders at the All-Staff Meeting. The team will also hold DRS Futures open meeting on January 25. The meeting will include stakeholder engagement exercises and will introduce the upcoming survey tool.
- Digital Preservation Consultant Michelle Gallinger, and Senior BA, Miriam Leigh, in collaboration with the team, are putting finishing touches on the stakeholder survey tool. The survey tool will be distributed to stakeholders.
Next Up:
- DRS Futures Open Meeting in January 2023
- Stakeholder survey tool – to be distributed in early February 2023
- Focus groups and office hours to be held in February – April 2023