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Designing sustainable data archives: comparing sustainability frameworks

Eschenfelder, Kristin R.; Shankar, Kalpana

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/89439

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Title
Designing sustainable data archives: comparing sustainability frameworks
Author(s)
Eschenfelder, Kristin R.; Shankar, Kalpana
Issue Date
2016-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • data archive
  • sustainability
  • organizational change
  • information infrastructure
  • organizational resiliency
Abstract
This theory review paper argues that in order to ensure the longevity of data, we need a better understanding of the sustainability of institutions that steward data. The paper considers what sustainability means in relation to data archives. It compares five frameworks that inform the concept of sustainability in order to develop a more complex understanding of the concept of sustainability. The resulting conceptualizations of sustainability can aid data archive stakeholders, designers and analysts in making decisions about how to develop “sustainable” data institutions.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
IConference 2016 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89439
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/16243
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