Archivist! data librarian! asset manager! do the differences really matter?: Reflecting on breakout discussions at the society of American archivists 2014 annual meeting. Issue 2 (January 2015) - Hagenmaier, Wendy
Abstract EDITOR'S SUMMARY Prompted by proliferating titles for those charged with managing digital data, archivists, embedded data managers, data librarians and data users explored terminology at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. Digital data creation may originate with a submission to a repository, copies ingested at different locations or even reassembly of existing data. Contrary to conventional concepts for archives, data is not complete but may represent one version, a level in a process or point in a workflow. Data must be accessible throughout versions and stages and often across a network of locations. Additional discussions focused on data ownership and responsibility for stewardship, the need for a common vocabulary to support interoperability by managers in varied roles, and the reincarnation of data as it is reused. The session made evident the critical need to reframe communications among those involved with data management to overcome barriers rising from vocabulary differences.