In our defence, I’d argue this only happened because it came into conflict with another of our principles: “Empower Others”. Before

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In our defence, I’d argue this only happened because it came into conflict with another of our principles: “Empower Others”.

Before I joined (almost a year ago now), the DPC had already committed to creating a ‘Skills Development Resource’ based on our Digital Preservation Competency Framework. This resource was envisaged as a community-sourced collection of links to training and development activities and resources, structured around the competency framework (in order to make it easier to navigate and use). This was slated for launch at the iPRES 2024 workshop Start 2 Preserve: Creating a Skills Development Resource.

One of our project goals is to understand what it takes to maintain a registry, and how to make things easy to maintain over time. So the question for me was: how could we create a suitable shared resource without requiring a huge amount of effort, too much complex infrastructure, or a high level of maintenance in the future.

Collecting a flat list of links wouldn’t have needed much, but would not be able to meet the requirement to support a growing set of items and roles integrated with the five competency areas, 28 skill elements and five skill levels.