Digital Preservation Coalition

Following the successful consultation event held in conjunction with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), The National Archives have now taken the feedback and wrapped it into a wiki at: http://droid7.wikispaces.com

The project team have taken the tweets and feedback from the feedback forms at the event and tried to represent them as requirements. As mentioned on the front page of the wiki this is very much like a wish list and while we can’t promise everything requested will appear in DROID 7 we do hope the resource will guide that development and beyond, so perhaps for minor releases and then potentially DROIDs 8 and 9.

'We’re asking users access the existing pages listing a requirement and place their name as a stakeholder so we can understand the interest in a potential feature,' explained Ross Spencer of the National Archives. 'We’re also asking users to create new requirement pages using the template given to reflect any requirements that we haven’t picked up via the consultation. For users new to wikis we’ve provided a user guide. It is important to remember it is difficult to mess a wiki up as we can always look at change histories and we will be monitoring the wiki to help anyone with corrections.'

'We expect this process will go on until the end of January, but potentially longer depending on the interest in the wiki and how long we have while resourcing the next development. We hope this wiki will provide an initial base to allow DROID users to communicate with us and each other and we hope it will evolve to be used for other future DROID developments. '