DLF Technology Strategy for Archives Working Group (TS4A)
About
The Technology Strategy for Archives Working Group (TS4A) is a community of practice organized through DLF focused on supporting archives and technology workers, management, and leadership.
TS4A is open to anyone interested in these topics regardless of formal role, experience, or institutional affiliation. Your institution does not need to be a DLF member to participate. Participants are encouraged to bring strategic challenges and other topics from their own institutions to assist with their own local planning.
History
TS4A originated as a result of the findings of Lighting the Way, a two-year IMLS-funded project focused on improving archival discovery and delivery through practitioner-led strategic planning. Our work found that effective strategic planning and transformational change requires collaboration across many people with varying expertise and levels of positional power. Project participants identified the importance of facilitated working sessions and the desire to have further opportunities to collaborate on strategy with colleagues across institutions. We also found that sharing and collaborating on early stage work is valuable for archives and technology workers given the sector’s tendency to present only on completed work. More detail on the project’s findings can be found in its final report.
Goals/Objectives
- Providing a space for strategic planning and visioning to support holistic and programmatic practitioner-led planning of the social and technical ecosystem of systems and people that support archives programs.
- Sharing information about emerging initiatives and to explore opportunities for early stage collaboration across institutions.
- Applying facilitation methods that are generative and care-focused to support creative and inclusive approaches to envision strategy and future planning.
- Potentially steering participant-driven subgroups dedicated to specific needs or challenges, and providing ideas about how to connect and collaborate with others outside TS4A to support the work.
Leadership
- Corinne Chatnik, Nonjudgmental Technology Question Space subgroup lead
- Kevin Clair, Virtual Reading Room Strategy and Design subgroup lead
- Max Eckard, co-coordinator
- Wendy Hagenmaier, co-coordinator
- Ted Mallison, Specification for Describing Digital Objects subgroup lead
- Elizabeth Roke, Current Gaps in Tech Strategy subgroup lead
- Jessica Webster, co-coordinator and Middle-Driven Solutions subgroup lead
- Gregory Wiedeman, co-coordinator
- Mark Wolfe, Intersections of Sustainability and Tech Strategy subgroup lead
Subcommittees
- Nonjudgmental Technology Question Space
- Virtual Reading Room Strategy and Design
- Tech Literacy Outside Coding
- Specification for Describing Digital Objects
- Middle-Driven Solutions
- Intersections of Sustainability and Tech Strategy
- Current Gaps in Tech Strategy
Get Involved
Meetings
Check group communications or the DLF Community Calendar for the most up-to-date schedule.
