AIDA will create a self-assessment tool for describing institutional readiness and capabilities for digital asset management and digital preservation. The tool will take into account different states of institutional preparedness when recommending options or highlighting threats to assets.

The project is targeted at digital assets held in HE and FE Institutions in the United Kingdom.

Recognising current institutional capabilities is an essential pre-requisite for taking effective decisions about how to create, manage, store and preserve their assets. Likewise, understanding future requirements is necessary to enable an institution to decide whether specific actions need to be taken in regard to particular assets, or when and how it is desirable to improve on its current capabilities. The actions an institution can take will be determined, in part, by its institutional readiness and maturity in relation to digital asset management.

The project’s approach to asset management will seek to bring together the best elements of the expertise of records managers, librarians, data curators, repository managers and others in developing an institution-wide approach to asset management.