VRA Conference Minneapolis 2024

Spiraling costs, limited time, complicated migrations, and user needs have led many institutions to find ways to connect disparate data repositories together for discovery, preservation, and more. Whether breaking out of multiple digital systems siloed at one institution or bringing together multiple institutions into a shared system, harnessing data from a variety of repositories requires a lot of decision-making. What are the common metadata fields and which are most important to users? What data types are available and which are most easily ingested for a common system? Are there tasks repositories share or are their multiple tasks, each important to a different constituency? With multiple players, the decision making must be collective and the maintenance will be ongoing. Our presenters will talk about these challenges and the need for high-level governance to start multi-stakeholder collaborative projects and keep them going.