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IT Training and Testing
As you may have noticed, my new graduate assistant/colleague Angela posted some thoughts earlier today regarding her experiences installing Archivematica (this was a task/learning experience I inflicted on her as a training exercise).
What can we take away from her experience? Basically, that even the simplest possible tools require a level of knowledge that will likely confuse all but developers or those who have ‘power user’ type IT experience. Over the past year, I’ve come to firmly believe that every practicing archivist and archivist in training needs to get a grip on basic IT concepts at both a conceptual and also a practicing technical level. I’d like to suggest a two ways to do that:
- It is important that any digital preservation/curation curriculum include some training in basic IT skills. Maybe “Information Technology for Archivists” should be a required course in every archives education program. Angela is a fairly skilled computer user (in spite of her protestations), but some of the conventions used in the Archivematica documentation threw her for a loop, at least until I explained them. . Otherwise, “you literally don’t know what you don’t know,” as Angela put it to me this morning. And, as I’ve discovered over the years, one thing that holds many graduates back from getting jobs is a sophisticated knowledge of technology. A few years ago, I read a book (unfortunately I can’t recall the title or author) that systematically walked through every basic computer concept from input/out put, microcomputer hardware, networking, and programming concepts at a conceptual level. Something like that is needed for archivists, in today’s idioms and expressions. If you can’t take a class, Exploring the Digital Domain by Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen looks like a good place to start.
- The best way to begin making headway in preserving electronic records is to dive into software testing. When you do so, and when you report your results back to a project, you do two things. First, you begin to build your own competence. But more importantly, you provide critical feedback to developers, who have no way of knowing about problems, unless someone points them out. In this respect, Angela’s post show me that she will have much more to contribute over the upcoming months, as she continues to work on projects to refine and implement my recommendations.
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