Many thanks to those of you who have already completed the Open Preservation Foundation’s 2019 digital preservation community survey. Your responses are invaluable in helping us to better understand digital preservation technology and knowledge across the community. In addition to our own findings, we will publish the anonymised data openly, allowing organisations to benchmark their practice with others and carry out their own analysis of the results.
If you have not yet filled out the survey, we encourage those working on digital preservation projects of all sizes to participate, regardless of your organisation’s level of experience.
The OPF leads a collaborative effort to create, maintain and develop the reference set of sustainable, open source digital preservation tools and supporting resources. The results from this survey will reveal shared priorities and gaps in digital preservation today, helping us to focus our community contributions.
What will be done with the information?
We will analyse the data and produce a report. Both the findings and anonymised data will also be published openly; this will enable you to carry out your own analysis of the results and benchmark your practice with others. The results will be fully anonymised so that individual institutions cannot be identified. OPF members and survey respondents will have priority access to the findings and our report.
What’s in it for you?
Digital preservation is a growing community and the more we know about it, the more we can do to collectively support its development. No matter the size of your organisation or your level of digital preservation experience, we want to hear from you! We also encourage all respondents to share the survey among their networks so we can work together to produce a detailed picture of the digital preservation landscape today and use this knowledge to support its future.
All respondents will be entered into a prize draw for a free ticket to OPFCON of our 10th anniversary in Vienna in May 2020. There will also be goodies up for grabs - keep your eyes on our twitter page (@openpreserve) for more information about our giveaways.
How to fill out the survey
Here is the link to the survey: https://forms.gle/GvHC2cLpbBwXhHti8.
Please complete the survey by Tuesday 7 January.
More information, including a PDF copy of the questions, is available on the OPF website. We thank you in advance for the time it will take you to respond. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. 
