Advocacy Survey, Results & Analysis


RESULTS

SMITHSONIAN 2: Smithsonian Institution Archives

1. Concept of Networking Cultural Heritage

How familiar is your organization and its constituents with the terms of this vision and with the current issues that have to be grappled with to make this vision a reality?

Mostly familiar

2. ADVOCACY

2a Given this definition of advocacy, how does your organization advocate for networking cultural heritage?

We advocate in small group setting s within the Smithsonian and within the archival profession.

2b Do you have a different working definition of advocacy than the one we offer here?

No

2c Projects? Of the projects that your organization participates in, which are related to digital networking?

Home pages, on-line data bases in SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research and Information System)

2d Partners? If you collaborate with partners in any networking advocacy activity, who are they?

n/a

2e Measure Success? How do you measure the success of your networking advocacy projects?

--

2f Target? Besides NINCH members, what groups should NINCH target for advocacy?

--

3 Needs?

Role of standards; relative priority of issues from the NINCH perspective

 

 

4. Issues?

1. --intellectual property

2. -standards

4. --access

5. --economics

6. -internationalism

3. -preservation

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