The goals of the survey are to find out the scope of collecting web content in the United States: what organizations collection development policies state (if they have one), what they are actually collecting, and what services are being used to archive, among other things.
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=2013 Survey=
If anyone is interested in helping develop this survey, contact Abbie Grotke (abgr@loc.gov).
[[NDSA:August 21, 2013 Meeting Minutes]]
==Draft Survey Questions==
Survey is CLOSED. Analysis is underway. Contact Abbie if you want to get involved.
*Organization information (name, URL, contact, etc.)
Blog post: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/10/archiving-web-content-take-the-2013-ndsa-survey/
**Type of organization:
***Historical Society
***College or University
***Museum
***Public Library
***Consortium
***K-12 School
***Federal Government
***State Government (including Archives, state records centers, or Libraries (or keep separate?)(I would include. They generally do this work based on state statute or regs.)
***Local Government (what is the difference in "local" and "city"?)
***City Government
***County Government
***Other (please describe)
*How long have you been archiving
*Are you using a service or company to archive, or crawling in-house
**if service what one (Archive-IT, IA's crawling services, Hanzo, Iterasi etc.)
**if in-house, what crawling tools used (heritrix, httrack, other)
*Does your organization have collection policies that cover web archiving?
**are these publicly accessible (provide URL)
**If not but you are willing to share... (give instructions for emailing?)
*Do you use web archiving primarily to a) Archive your own web site as a type of institutional record or b)Archive content from other organizations for future research use. or c) both [with an option for comments/description]
*Scope of collecting, various Qs about what they archive (initial list from Archive-IT, will flesh this out to include more, allow for comments or description):
**Arts & Humanities
***Dance
***Music
***Art
***Literature
***Architecture
***Film/Television (?)
**Blogs and Social Media
***Blogs
***Facebook
***Twitter
***Youtube and other video
***All of above as part of regular collecting of websites
**Computers and Technology
***software
***gaming
***other?
**Government
***State
***Federal
***City
***County
**Spontaneous Events, for example: natural disasters, tragedy, environmental events, spontaneous political demonstrations
**Politics and Elections
***Local elections
***State elections
***Federal elections
**Science and Health
**Society and Culture
**Universities and Libraries
**News
***Newspapers
***Citizen Journalism/Community News
***Broadcast/Television
**International content (leave open-ended, let them describe what they are collecting internationally?)
***topical (specific subject area - sports, political parties, cultural events)
***geographical (one country or many)
*Permissions/Copyright
**Do you ask permission to crawl? (always, never, sometimes (depends on the content))
**Do you ask display permissions (access)? (always, never, sometimes (depends on the content)
**Do you respect robots.txt when crawling? (always, never, sometimes
**Describe[comments box to explain any of these, further describe]
*Access
**What access tool do you use (if any) for viewing Web archives?
**Do you do full text indexing? [yes, for testing only; yes, researchers can utilize; no]
**Public access URL:
*Researchers (do we want any questions on research use?)(Yes. Could ask in an open-ended way how researchers are using the content)
*Ever participated in a collaborative web archive (give examples), yes/no
Survey Data (identifying information removed): [[File:Ndsa wa survey 2013.xls ]]
*Archive-IT list
*ALA groups (need to find people we don't normally talk to)
=2011 survey=
The goal of the survey was to find out the scope of collecting web content in the United States: what organizations collection development policies state (if they have one), what they are actually collecting, and what services are being used to archive, among other things.
The Survey was conducted in October 2011 and 91 results were received.
Raw results are here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=35pr1N8b4guFUbdaGYf08gvZGp99eG9r2dfnbeuOSzY_3d
Password is CWG
A final report, completed in July 2012, is here: [[File:ndsa_web_archiving_survey_report_2012.pdf]]
And an addendum for NDSA members is here: [[File:ndsa_web_archiving_survey_report_2012_addendum.pdf]]. Please do not distribute this addendum beyond NDSA members.
The goal of the survey was to find out the scope of collecting web content in the United States: what organizations collection development policies state (if they have one), what they are actually collecting, and what services are being used to archive, among other things.
The Survey was conducted in October 2011 and 91 results were received.
