2009-03-07 17:54 two projects, two fuzzy ideas, two lit review processes research journal - 696, 780 the 696 independent study is starting out as a literature review of risk in institutional repositories -- where it's perceived to lie, and, what's interesting to me, who makes the actual decisions? the oais model defines the functions of an archival process but leaves the specifics of implementation to each institution. so, for various managerial functions within an archive (x and y, for example), those functions could be carried out by one person or teams of people. it depends on resources and staffing. carolyn has advised me to contextualize the risks within the oais model and within institutional repositories, which provides me with a good basis from which to select my sources and also (we hope) prevent me from flying off in all sorts of different directions (such as defining risk, decision making algorithms, how risk is managed in other contexts, and so on). i've collected a mass of documents and web pages that i now need to sort through, skim/read, and decide what the current picture of the situation is like. she reminded me at <abbr class=
