Hi
I am still running this questionnaire and I think as these things are
'social experiments' I need to follow up and say to this list I still
don't have enough results to go, however I confess I haven't worked very
hard at this and should try some other Mailing Lists or websites.
Thanks Damian
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=YgorpQ5jv9FNNfBw_2fsnu0Q_3d_3d
password: datavitality
> Jacqui Caren wrote:
>
>> Damian Brasher wrote:
>>> Identifying what data is important to you as an individual or your
>>> organisation is *hard* and [orgaisation (individual) specific]
>>> therefore
>>> the answer needs some thought.
>
>> Value is not easily measured - especially when talking about old
>> code or docs/specs.
>
> Definitely, it's one of those qualitative problems that is difficult to
> translate into a single engineered solution.
>
> Like when designing databases where one of the tools used to analyse a
> users requirements would be the Entity-Relation diagram, so this survey
> contains a matrix which starts to create a profile matching the user
> requirements. The survey has been bubbling around in my mind for a couple
> of years and the criteria to describe data loss is measured in three ways;
> damage, cost and emotional impact. The age of data should not matter, if a
> code repository exists and is sold from then it's very important to the
> business. The fact that archive needs change over time is another area
> that is difficult to quantify.
>
> I found writing the survey helpful and felt very relieved when I had
> finally put into words what I need to communicate to potential users. I
> hope the 'consultancy' value add for those that fill in the survey makes
> it worth their while. The remaining notes could help make some decisions.
>
> After this survey I'll build another worksheet which will be integrated
> into the DIAP (R) worksheets. I'd like to create a set of online forms
> which collect the right data from a potential user then auto-generate a
> configuration file reflecting the input further simplifying setup. Then
> users can re-visit the form if needs change.
>
> --
> Damian L Brasher
> http://www.diap.org.uk
>
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Damian L Brasher
http://www.diap.org.uk
Semper vigilantes - the systems...
