[Nhcoll-l] How does your museum govern shared biodiversity infrastructure?

[Shoobs, Nate]

Hey all,
I'm curious to hear how other institutions manage collections data and shared digital infrastructure, like IPTs, database software, servers, etc.

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?
Do you have a committee of curators and CMs that makes decisions for the whole institution? Is there a curator just for informatics/databases?
How are disagreements about data stewardship mediated?

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!

Also -- if anyone knows of any literature or best practices docs RE data stewardship of this sort, send it along!
-Nate

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[The Ohio State University]
Nathaniel F. Shoobs
Curator of Mollusks
College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212
614-688-1342 (Office)
mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates<https://mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates>
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