title: Are we winning? Other measurables for Digital Preservation
creators: Tim Evans
abstract: This short paper reflects on the past 25 years of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), a digital repository for UK heritage data.  The paper focusses on the benefits of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Rapid Assessment Model (RAM).  Experience of using the RAM has complimented the strengths of accreditation and has done much to focus on capacity and capability. It has also helped highlight successes that may otherwise be overlooked. For a smaller organization, these successes may not be intrinsically measurable in terms of bytes and processes, or the capacity to build a complex infrastructure, but simply demonstrating the reuse of the data so forensically preserved and the individuals that ensure that it matters.
  
keywords: maturity modelling designated community data reuse capability