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Hi Kimberly, I have forwarded your survey on to our internal MetaArchive community listserv. A few of our members may be interested in responding. Good luck with the survey - will look forward to the results! Best, Matt On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kimberly A. Schroeder <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I apologize for cross-posting > > Hello all! > > First, I want to thank so many of you for your efforts to fill out the 10 > question survey. As of this morning, over 80 institutions had > participated! I want to thank you for your time. My hope was to get over > 100 at least, in order to look at something statistically significant. > > I also want to thank the more than a dozen colleagues that contacted me > with helpful ideas, networking suggestions and overall positive thoughts! > It confirms that we are a part of a wonderful profession! > > Please help me to continue to get these responses in so that I can share > good data with all of you! If you could forward to any others that may be > interested, I would be grateful. The survey is due in two days, on the > 20th. The survey does ask you to "estimate" the volume of obsolescent > formats and the percentage having historical value. I promise not to hold > you to an exact percentage but we do need to develop a better sense of what > has value and needs to be migrated and preserved. > > Best, > > Kim Schroeder > Coordinator, Archival Program > Lecturer and Career Advisor > Wayne State University > School of Library and Information Science > Faculty Advisor for National Digital Stewardship Alliance > http://wsustudentndsa.wordpress.com/ > [log in to unmask] > 313 577-9783 > Career Advising Page > http://students.slis.wayne.edu/students/planning.php > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Kimberly A. Schroeder" <[log in to unmask]> > *To: *"The NDSA organization list" <[log in to unmask]> > *Sent: *Friday, June 6, 2014 9:29:58 AM > *Subject: *Assessing Obsolescent Format Content > > > Hi all! Many of you know me and my work in multimedia archives. I have > been writing a lengthy article involving seven years of research into > obsolescent formats in both digital and video. > > There is one missing fact that I need so that I can tie statistics > together. Since the historic value of content on obsolescent formats has > not been published, I created a survey. In order for this research to be > valid, I need *a lot* of my colleagues to fill out this short survey > about the obsolescent formats that they house in their institutions. > Warning, it involves math! That said, it is *critical* that we do this > kind of bench-marking beyond case studies institution by institution. A > big weakness in our literature is a lack of larger data sets looking at > trends in our field. If you could PLEASE, pretty please fill this out in > the next few weeks (*by June 20, 2014*), I will release the data in full > to the list. I want to share this not hoard it. Thank you all for your > time! Please share widely with colleagues! > > > Here it is! I thank you for your support! > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BPFY3F6 > > > Best, > > > Kim Schroeder > Coordinator, Archival Program > Lecturer and Career Advisor > Wayne State University > School of Library and Information Science > Faculty Advisor for National Digital Stewardship Alliance > http://wsustudentndsa.wordpress.com/ > [log in to unmask] > 313 577-9783 > Career Advising Page > http://students.slis.wayne.edu/students/planning.php > > > > -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org @metaarchive [log in to unmask] 616-566-3204