Win an Apple iPod touch 16Gb Digital player by filling in this questionnaire*
This questionnaire is part of a project being conducted by the Archaeology Data Service on behalf of English Heritage, focussing on how archaeological 'grey literature' reports are being produced, stored and used and what users need and expect from them. By completing this questionnaire you have a real opportunity to influence the debate on accessing England’s corpus of grey literature and you will ensure that user needs and opinions are taken into consideration when policy decisions are made in the future.
The questionnaire should take about 25 minutes.
Your response will be confidential. Your name will not be used in the report or disclosed to anyone outside the survey team. If you have any questions about this, or the questionnaire in general, please contact the ADS
via Catherine Hardman csh3@york.ac.uk.
Thank you for your help.
Definitions of terms used in the questionnaire
Fieldwork publication: any work that serves to record and disseminate information derived from a fieldwork project (as defined above), whether produced in printed or other media. This broad definition includes 'grey literature' as well as 'published works' (see below).
Published work: any publication which is issued for public sale/widespread distribution, and/or has an ISBN/ISSN.
Grey literature: any work which is not issued for public sale/widespread distribution and does not have an ISBN/ISSN, as is often the case, for instance, with reports derived from small-scale developer-funded projects.
Project archive: the primary records (including paper, digital (computerised) and microfiche records, plans, notes, recording sheets, and photographs) and the collected remains (including artefacts and ecofacts) resulting from a fieldwork project. (Although the records and collected remains may be deposited at different locations in some parts of the British Isles, they are here both defined as forming part of the overall project archive.)
Repository: a central place where digital data is stored, and from which users can gain access to that data.
Digital Archive: a central place where digital data is archived, this may also serve as a repository.
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