Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections Questionnaire

The aims of the questionnaire are:

To find out what digitization projects are in progress or have recently been completed, and in so doing to look at existing commitments to maintaining digital projects
To find out what is the potential for digitization by looking at existing archives/collections

I would like to stress that we are not simply concentrating on paper-based material, but also sound and video, etc. Furthermore I would welcome responses from all libraries (e.g. Libraries Committee libraries, Faculty/Department Libraries, College Libraries), museums, other institutions, and individual academics involved in research projects that involve digitization. In many cases responses to the questionnaire will be followed up with a one-to-one interview to discuss projects in more detail. If you have any comments or suggestions relating to the project, please contact me directly (Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Please complete the questionnaire by 15th JANUARY 1999.

Stuart Lee
(December, 1998)

Name:

Unit (e.g. library, museum, college, faculty/dept., etc.):

Contact Address:

Telephone:

E-mail:

URL:

Is your unit currently involved in, or has already completed, a digitization project? (Digitization project means the conversion of items from analogue into digital format)

YES NO

If YES Please Proceed to Section I, If NO Go To Section II

I. Existing Digitization Project(s)

[Please complete a new section for each separate digitization project you have been involved in. Once you have finished proceed to Section II.]

A.

Please name the project:

Give a brief description of the project (including number and types of items, resulting file sizes, etc.):

Please give brief details of any articles or web sites with further information about the project:

If you have been involved in another digitization project please fill in the form below. If not, proceed to Section II.

B.

Please name the project:

Give a brief description of the project (including number and types of items, resulting file sizes, etc.):

Please give brief details of any articles or web sites with further information about the project:

If you have been involved in another digitization project please fill in the form below. If not, proceed to Section II.

C.

Please name the project:

Give a brief description of the project (including number and types of items, resulting file sizes, etc.):

Please give brief details of any articles or web sites with further information about the project:

If you have been involved in another digitization project please fill in the form below. If not, proceed to Section II.

D.

Please name the project:

Give a brief description of the project (including number and types of items, resulting file sizes, etc.):

Please give brief details of any articles or web sites with further information about the project:

If you have been involved in another digitization project please fill in the form below. If not, proceed to Section II.

II. Potential Digitization Projects

Section II is aimed at gathering information on potential digitization projects at the University. If you feel that this is applicable to any collections you are interested in digitizing then please complete it as appropriate.

Is your unit currently considering any of its collections as possible candidates for digitization?

YES NO

If YES please give brief details:

Does your unit have any archives/collections/holdings which you think would be suitable for digitizing?

YES NO

If YES please give brief details:

Thank you for completing this questionnaire. You may be contacted in the future to discuss details noted above in more detail.