ds003 - Archiving with Incremental Structuring

Overview

Organizations produce a wide variety of content and research outputs as part of their missions. Collecting, organizing, and presenting these outputs is essential for leveraging their experience and knowledge. However, the rapid emergence of new formats and content complicates the process of determining the necessary submission and presentation forms in advance. To facilitate the organic development of new formats and processes, it is crucial to have simple submission, review, and publication tools that can be incrementally refined as new ideas become standard. Allowing groups to begin collecting and curating without fully anticipating future needs is vital. Additionally, supporting this evolution without requiring disruptive migrations across tools is equally important. This demo explores the process and tooling that could serve as an initial simple-start tool.

Key Ideas

• The goal is to get the content in as quickly and easily as possible, in as close to its original form as possible. This creates a low lift for contributors, and maintains the fidelity of the work.
• These inputs can be reformated and remixed to create whatever forms are needed for presentation, review, collaboraiton, etc.
• This ability to incrementally structure/reformat both submissions and already-received content allows for work to be continually refined.
• The presentation should be able to adapt as the content does. To iteratively expand as more structure is added.

Important Details

• Organizations will often need to organize a community of volunteers to do curation and structuring, so tooling for supporting such people is important.
• Being able to integrate such tooling into already existing websites