{"id":426,"date":"2014-03-17T16:53:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/?p=426"},"modified":"2014-03-17T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:58:54","slug":"studies-finished-paper-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2014\/03\/17\/studies-finished-paper-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies Finished! Paper Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I completed the IV in PIM paper \u2013 and I\u2019m very pleased to be able to move on to something else. It\u2019s consumed me over this last month \u2013 particularly the literature review which required much painstaking reading and analysis. Academics certainly earn their money when they write papers.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage in the IV study involved analysing the reasons why 109 items in a collection of 400 mementos were retained. This exercise identified a need for the following changes to the Updated PIM Retention Criteria that emerged from the second study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCopying explicitly prevented by copyright\u201d will be removed.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c Items relating to the legality of an institution\u201d will be removed.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cExecutive Policy document\u201d will be removed.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOther \u2013 specify reason\u201d will be added.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDoes not belong to the Owner\u201d will be added.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFor easy access and showing to others\u201d will be added.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cItems that the Owner wants to keep as mementos of his\/her life\u201d will be added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The paper comes to three main conclusions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0 NARS Intrinsic Value characteristics provide a useful starting point for considering the question of what originals to retain in PIM collections; but only seven of the nine IV characteristics are applicable within the PIM domain and some of those seven require adjustment to their scope and naming. Furthermore, they need to be accompanied by a further 12 additional criteria to make a comprehensive set of PIM Retention Criteria (PIMRC).<\/li>\n<li>The set of 18 PIMRCs that emerged from this paper are unlikely to be definitive or complete, and consequently an \u201cOther\u201d criteria has been included as one of the 18. Nor are the PIMRCs mutually exclusive. The studies reported in the paper indicate a high occurrence of two or more criteria applying to any one item.<\/li>\n<li>It is thought unlikely that individual Owners of PIM collections will want to apply a checklist of PIMRCs methodically, but are far more likely to use such information as background guidance. Owners who inherit or are given collections may be more inclined to use the PIMRCs particularly for their initial assessment of a collection. It is believed that knowledge about PIMRCs will assist the general ongoing research into the PIM domain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jenny Bunn of UCL&#8217;s\u00a0Department of Information Studies has been very helpful in commenting on elements of the study and on the draft paper as it has developed; and I now await her comments on the results of the final stage, and on the Discussion and Conclusions sections. Then will come the question of whether the paper is worth putting forward to a journal and if so, which one. So this journey is not quite complete yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I completed the IV in PIM paper \u2013 and I\u2019m very pleased to be able to move on to something else. It\u2019s consumed me over this last month \u2013 particularly the literature review which required much painstaking reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2014\/03\/17\/studies-finished-paper-complete\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-age-artefacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}