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***State Government (including Archives or Libraries (or keep separate?)
***State Government (including Archives or Libraries (or keep separate?)
***Local Government
***Local Government
***??
***City Government
***County Government
***Other (please describe)
***Other (please describe)
*How long have you been archiving
*How long have you been archiving
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***Literature
***Literature
***Architecture
***Architecture
***Film/Television (?)
**Blogs and Social Media
**Blogs and Social Media
***Blogs
***Blogs
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**Computers and Technology  
**Computers and Technology  
**Government  
**Government  
***Local
***State
***State
***Federal
***Federal
***City
***County
**Spontaneous Events, disasters, tragedy
**Spontaneous Events, disasters, tragedy
**Politics and Elections
**Politics and Elections
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**Society and Culture
**Society and Culture
**Universities and Libraries
**Universities and Libraries
**News
***Newspapers
***Citizen Journalism/Community News
***Broadcast/Television
**International content (leave open-ended, let them describe what they are collecting internationally?)
**International content (leave open-ended, let them describe what they are collecting internationally?)



Revision as of 15:02, 26 July 2011

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.

If anyone is interested in helping develop this survey, contact Abbie Grotke (abgr@loc.gov).

Draft Survey Questions

  • Organization information (name, URL, contact, etc.)
    • Type of organization:
      • Historical Society
      • College or University
      • Museum
      • Public Library
      • Consortium
      • K-12 School
      • Federal Government
      • State Government (including Archives or Libraries (or keep separate?)
      • Local Government
      • 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?)
  • 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
    • Government
      • State
      • Federal
      • City
      • County
    • Spontaneous Events, disasters, tragedy
    • 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?)

Distribution

  • NDSA/NDIIPP listservs/blog/twitter, etc.
  • IIPC Curators list
  • Archive-IT list