Who

questions and answers

• Who is writing the business case?
  • am I the right person to write this business case?
  • And who else in the organisation may need to be involved who isn't engaged at the moment (e.g. financial officers who may need to place preservation as a budget line within the organisation)
  • Where can I go for help?

• Who are you writing the business case for?
  • Who has the authority to make the decisions?
  • What sort of language do you need to use?
  • What format / length do they expect it to be?
  • Type of organisation - business objectives, documentation,scale & maturity

• who are the community/stakeholders for which the preservation will be done?
  • What is a stakeholder?
  • Do I need a stakeholder map?
  • Who is supplying the assets (and providing the curation service)?
  • who is demanding value from the assets - the users, consumers?
  • Who is providing infrastructure?
  • Who is the external sponsor?
  • Who will determine the value of the assets?

• Who in the organisation does what / will do the work?
  • roles and responsibilities

• Who will monitor the implementation?

• Who will measure whether the work is a success on an ongoing basis?
  • What are the metrics of success?
  • Key performance indicators

. Spell out that the material should be considered as digital assets, and assets have value and that value is realised over time by means of preservation/curation. Value must accrue to some stakeholders and this is a process of describing and identifying the supply and demand issues. further information