This page contains a replica of the Survey Instrument
Dear Colleagues:
Please take a few moments to read through and respond to this short survey.
As the first phase in setting the goals and building the strategies for NINCH's advocacy activities, the Advocacy Working Group is conducting this survey to discover what the needs are within our community for advancing the networking of cultural heritage materials.
Initial responses will be reported to the NINCH Board--meeting on April 11. Be assured you will also receive the results of the survey itself so that you can see how your response compares with those of other NINCH Members.
PLEASE RESPOND BY WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 AT THE LATEST.
Let me know who in your organization should respond, if not yourself. I will call you on Monday April 7 or Tuesday April 8, either to discuss your answers or to encourage you to send in your response.
All specific information given will be kept within the confines of the membership of NINCH. Permission will be sought should we want to use any figures or examples from your response in a wider context.
Please answer these questions for your organization as a whole. Reply to me at david@cni.org
Thank you,
David Green
"NINCH's vision of networked cultural heritage is of an integrated, distributed body of cultural material, in which connections can easily be made between texts, artifacts and objects, that is widely accessible on the global information infrastructure. It would be seamlessly interoperable across many media, of the highest possible quality and fidelity, and easily usable and searchable--by creators, scholars, the general public and by teachers and learners of all ages."
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?
Our working definition of advocacy is of an activity that goes beyond education yet doesn't reach as far as lobbying. Advocacy, in our understanding, argues and gives voice to a cause and a point-of-view (e.g. a balanced copyright law), developed from expertise and understanding of an issue, yet does not campaign for specific legislative change.
a) Given this definition of advocacy, how does your organization advocate for networking cultural heritage?
b) Do you have a different working definition of advocacy than the one we offer here?
c) Of the projects that your organization participates in, which are related to digital networking?
d) If you collaborate with partners in any networking advocacy activity, who are they?
e) How do you measure the success of your networking advocacy projects?
f) Besides NINCH members, what groups should NINCH target for advocacy?
What further education about networking issues does your organization need--both for staff to understand the issues and for the organization to become an advocate itself for effective electronic networking of cultural resources?
Prioritize the following issue areas within networking as they relate to the core functions of your organization. Add any specifying comments you want to specify any issues within broad topics:
intellectual property (copyright law, fair use, licensing)
standards (vocabulary/description/data; cataloging; technical, etc.)
access
economics
internationalism
preservation
other:
Susan Fox (Chair), Society of American Archivists
Douglas Bennett, American Council of Learned Societies
Kimber Craine, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Anita DiFanis, Association of Art Museum Directors
Sandria Freitag, American Historical Association
Charles Henry, Rice University
Katharine Martinez, Research Libraries Group
Kathleen McDonnell, Getty Information Institute
Claire Muldoon, Smithsonian Institution
Sheryl Romeo, Visual Resources Association
Pat Williams, Barry Szczesny, American Association of Museums
Diane Zorich, Museum Computer Network
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