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The 2017 Digital Preservation Staffing Survey provides a useful snapshot of the way digital preservation is accomplished in 2017 and how its practitioners feel about the effectiveness of their current organizational structures. It also builds on the 2012 survey and begins to establish data with which the digital preservation community can identify trends in staffing in the field. This report includes many chart and table to analyze data from 133 participating organizations. This site also provides a link to the underlying data. Survey questions are also provided.

URL for Resource: https://osf.io

Document Creating / Publishing Body: National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)

Date of Creation: 09-13-2017

Related Policies / Guidelines: This is the second survey related to digital preservation staffing needs. The other survey was completed in 2012 and is available here.

Date Resource Added/Modified: October 23, 2017