[BCMA] Survey: Interest in digital object hosting in MemoryBC

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Dear Colleagues,

This message is for members of the Archives Association of B.C. as well as
any memory/heritage institution in the province of B.C.

I hope that most of you are aware of MemoryBC, the consortial archival
description database used by institutional members of the AABC:
http://memorybc.ca . The software that underlies MemoryBC, AtoM, can be
used to display both archival descriptions and accompanying digital
objects, but up to this point the AABC has only supported its use for
archival descriptions.*

We (the AABC) are interested in gauging the community's interest in using
MemoryBC to display digital objects alongside archival descriptions.
Because there would be additional costs associated with hosting digital
objects, institutions who wish to take advantage of this service would pay
a fee on a yearly basis. The financial model is still being investigated
but we anticipate the fees being in the range of $120-$160 per year for 5
GB of digital storage. Access to add descriptions and digital objects to
MemoryBC will continue to be available only to Full and Associate
Institutional members of the AABC (for membership info and rates, please
see: http://aabc.ca/membership/)

We hope that this initiative will be of interest to institutions that do
not have their own mechanism for displaying digital objects on their own
institutions' websites/databases, as well as institutions who wish to
increase the exposure of their online content.

To gather your feedback, we ask that you fill out this survey (it would be
helpful if you could ensure that your institution only fills out the survey
once):

https://goo.gl/forms/DHDC0cM0TzrCgnxQ2

Responses will be gathered until March 15th. A summary and report will be
available for members at the AABC AGM at the end of April and will be
distributed to these lists.

Thank you for your interest!

Cheers,

Sarah Romkey
AABC Treasurer


* If you'd like to see an example of a similar site which does already
display digital objects, please see the Archives Association of Ontario's
Archeion: https://www.archeion.ca/


Sarah Romkey, MAS,MLIS
Archivematica Program Manager
Artefactual Systems <http://artefactual.com>
604-527-2056
@archivematica <http://www.twitter.com/archivematica> / @accesstomemory
<http://www.twitter.com/accesstomemory>
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