Task Force on Research/Data and Evaluation

The Task Force on Research/Data and Evaluation is responsible for exploring the feasibility of creating a standing body within SAA to conduct, facilitate, and/or evaluate research that is practical, useful, and meaningful for SAA and the archival community. The Task Force may take on one or more pilot projects if it believes that this experience would aid in making recommendations about a standing body.

Duties and Responsibilities

To fulfill its purpose as described above, the Task Force is specifically charged to:

• Determine whether sufficient need exists to justify the effort and costs associated with establishing a standing body to conduct, facilitate, and/or evaluate research that is meaningful for SAA and the archival community.
• Determine how such a standing body should be structured, staffed, and governed.
• Determine how such a standing body might be financed and supported.
• Propose how such a standing body might interact with other SAA groups.
• Propose how such a standing body might interact with external groups.

In addition to the deliberative work assigned above, the Task Force should actively pursue one or two pilot projects as a means of 1) testing initial assumptions and 2) incrementally developing a potential operational model for a standing body.

Reference: See “Proposal for a Committee on Research and Evaluation”—and particularly “A Conceptual Framework” on pages 3-5 of that document—prepared by Immediate Past President Dennis Meissner for the November 2016 SAA Council meeting.

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