Dear Internet Archive Colleagues:

 

My announcements on the below survey resulted in numerous auto-reply messages to the effect that people would not be back in office until Jan 10. Plus, as it turns out, the American History Assn held its annunal meeting last week. Not surprisingly, I've been asked to extend the closing date for the survey. This is to inform you that the closing date has been extended till Jan 20. I'd be grateful for the participation of those of you who did not earlier have the opportunity to do so, and if you would extend the invitation to others interested in long-term preservation of digital content in the form of e-records, e-books, e-newspapers, Websites, blogs, etc., and especially those who depend on easy access
to records for their livelihoods, such as historians, auditors,
lawyers/legislators, journalists, etc. To take the survey, just point your browser to
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB22426QEW6JG
It takes about 10-12 minutes to complete. Thanks.

Rick Barry
www.mybestdocs.com
Cofounder,Open Reader Consortium
www.openreader.org

--- In archivists-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Barry" <rickbarry@a...>
wrote:
>
>
> Dear Internet Archive Colleagues: Below is a survey invitation that
> was posted on other lists earlier this week that I hope will reach
a
> broader community through this network. As significant stakeholders
> in public policymaking regarding electronic records, I encourage
all
> of you to participate in this brief (10-12 minute), pro bono,
> independent survey and to pass the word to others to do the same.
In
> many ways, what policymakers decide to put on the Web and in other
> public electronic records vehicles, will decide what access the IA
> and the public more generally will have to these resources in the
> future. While it takes as its baseline findings/ recommendations of
> the interagency Electronic Records Policy Working Group, the survey
> is not limited to that. Since it quotes the key
> findings/recommendations, it isn't necessary to have read the ERPWG
> reports. In fact about 3/4ths of the respondents so far have not,
yet
> they have contributed excellent feedback already.
> 
> Thanks and best to the Internet Archive for 2005 with the great
work
> it is doing on the tsunami archives and all the rest.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rick Barry
> http://www.mybestdocs.com/
> Cofounder, Open Reader Consortium
> http://www.openreader.org/
> 
> ===============================================
> Dear colleagues: Below is the introduction to a survey to which I
> invite and request your participation.  Please also forward this
> message to other records colleagues and non-records people in your
> organizations, especially auditors, inspectors general, lawyers,
CIOs
> and other users whom you may know (historians, journalists, etc.) 
> While we of course wish to receive inputs from archives and records
> management professionals, we are very eager in this one to obtain
> feedback from users and creators of records. Your assistance is
> greatly appreciated. While it is about a US interagency report, we
> invite international participation as well. Such respondents should
> simply click on the "Other" category for question 2 of the survey.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rick Barry
> http://www.mybestdocs.com/
> Co-founder, Open Reader Consortium
> http://www.openreader.org/ 
> 
> Overcoming Barriers to Major Users in Accessing Electronic Records:
> An independent survey by Rick Barry
> 
> INTRODUCTION: IF YOU RECEIVED THIS SURVEY IN YOUR ROLE PRINCIPALLY
AS
> A RECORDS CREATOR (PROGRAM MGR/STAFF) OR USER (LAWYER, AUDITOR,
> HISTORIAN, JOURNALIST,ETC), PLEASE COMPLETE IT YOURSELF RATHER THAN
> SENDING IT TO ARCHIVES/RECORDS STAFF WHO SHOULD SEPARATELY RECEIVE
> AND COMPLETE THEIR OWN SURVEY. YOUR PERSPECTIVES AS RECORDS
> USERS/CREATORS/MANAGERS ARE VERY IMPORTANTour perspectives as
records
> creators/users are important.
>
> The purpose of this survey is to determine the extent to which key
> users of public records are aware of two major interagency reports
> on "Effective Management of Government Information on the Internet
> and Other Electronic Records" and their issues and recommendations.
> If approved, they will be used as major government electronic
records
> policymaking resources. It is thus important to obtain views of
> stakeholders in the public, private and non-profit sectors and
> academia – historians, auditors, journalists, educators,
information
> managers and other researchers – who require easy access to
> trustworthy electronic records to carry out their work. It is also
> important to determine if key user stakeholders may not have been
> aware of these reports and their findings. Thus, even stakeholders
> who were not aware of, or haven't read, these reports are requested
> to complete this survey. The survey also seeks views of those who
> produce or manage public records at all government levels. No
> individually identifiable information will be accessible by the
> author or be provided in the results of this survey except where
> participants wish to insert such information in free-
text, "Optional"
> comments sections. A few demographic questions are asked to
> differentiate reactions among different stakeholder groups. The
> survey quotes, but is not limited to, findings and recommendations
> identified by the Electronic Records Policy Working Group (ERPWG)
in
> two reports addressed to the Interagency Committee on Government
> Information: "Barriers to the Effective Management of Government
> Information on the Internet and Other Electronic Records" (Draft,
> June 28, 2004), and "Recommendations for the Effective Management
of
> Government Information on the Internet and Other Electronic
Records"
> (Draft, October 20, 2004).
> http://www.cio.gov/documents/ICGI/ERPWG_Recommendations.pdf
>
> Although this survey has not been requested/underwritten by any
> organization, like a previous survey conducted by this
> author, "Report on the Society and Archives Survey," 29 January
2003,
> its results will be published on www.mybestdocs.com and be
accessible
> to all participants as well as ERPWG and other interested parties.
In
> the interest of producing timely results, respondents are urged to
> take the few minutes necessary to complete the survey as soon as
> possible but in any case not later than Tuesday, January 11, 2005
and
> to make the survey known to other colleagues privately and by
posting
> to professional discussion lists/blogs and encourage them to do the
> same.
>
> 
>
> The survey is accessible at:  http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?
> p=WEB22426QEW6JG
>
>
> Thank you for your participation. If you have any questions on the
> survey, please contact the author, Rick Barry, at info@m...









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