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Hey all,</div>
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I'm curious to hear how other institutions manage collections data and shared digital infrastructure, like IPTs, database software, servers, etc. </div>
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Is your data and infrastructure all managed centrally by IT, with software decisions made centrally as well? Or does each collection determine what database software to use and pay its own way?</div>
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Do you have a committee of curators and CMs that makes decisions for the whole institution? Is there a curator just for informatics/databases?</div>
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How are disagreements about data stewardship mediated?</div>
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I'm very curious to hear what other institutions do, and how stakeholders feel about it. I know this can be a touchy subject, so feel free to respond to me off list if you like. On the flip side, if you have a system that works particularly well, let everyone
hear about it! </div>
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Also -- if anyone knows of any literature or best practices docs RE data stewardship of this sort, send it along!</div>
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-Nate</div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); background-color: white;"><b>Nathaniel F. Shoobs</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br>
Curator of Mollusks<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); background-color: white;">College of Arts & Sciences</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Dept. of Evolution,
Ecology, and Organismal Biology<br>
Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212<br>
614-688-1342 (Office)<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates" data-outlook-id="17beaf1f-cb2f-4600-b440-6e7e27a1971d" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates</a></u></span></p>
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