[Archivesspace_Users_Group] action plan from Toward a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project

[Christine Di Bella]

Hello ArchivesSpace members,

A number of people here may have already seen or be interested in the action plan recently released by the Toward a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project. Led by the California Digital Library (CDL), this project brought together representatives of many regional aggregators of finding aids in the U.S. along with funders and expert advisors to discuss ways to build upon the individual efforts that have been undertaken over the years and make steps toward a national infrastructure for finding aids and other archival description.

ArchivesSpace participated in this project as an expert advisor and anticipates being involved with follow up projects as well. We see ArchivesSpace as important to this project both as the mechanism by which many institutions create the archival description that is or could potentially be contributed to aggregators and as a community that includes a wide variety of institutions, diverse in type, size, geographic area, staffing, collection focus, and many other factors important to developing discovery infrastructure that meets an array of needs.

The action plan is available at https://bit.ly/action-plan-nafan.

>From the release about the plan:

At the heart of the action plan are recommendations for and principles to guide next steps to implement a sustainable national-level finding aid network, based on a phased, incremental approach that: moves this effort from a research and demonstration project to a program; is informed by a research agenda; and, from the outset, includes work to establish business and governance models that fit the infrastructure and service model and are grounded in the community's organizational and financial capacity.

Over the coming months the CDL will convene follow-up discussions with the planning initiative participants to formalize and initiate work identified in the action plan.

For more information about the NAFAN planning initiative and outcomes, please see the project wiki<https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/NAFAN>.

On the ArchivesSpace side, we welcome any thoughts you have about the value of regional and national finding aid/archival description aggregators, and the degree to which ArchivesSpace is important for your participation in these efforts.

Christine

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace Program Manager
christine.dibella at lyrasis.org<mailto:christine.dibella at lyrasis.org>
800.999.8558 x2905
678-235-2905
cdibella13 (Skype)

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