Born-Digital News Archiving Survey - Publishers and Editors

This brief survey is designed to collect information regarding the use and management of materials originating in a digital form in North Carolina news organizations. The survey has 20 questions and will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. 

The shift from a print-to-digital news environment has massive implications for the persistence of our news memory. We need your help in identifying what mechanisms news organizations are employing to ensure the longevity of the news records they produce. We want to know how news organizations are backing up their digital news content...whether you are doing that work internally or through external partnerships...and how/whether you plan to provide long-term archiving for this news output for use by future researchers, journalists, and citizens.

We will use the survey results to establish a solid baseline of practice today in NC and to propose future projects that address any gaps or problems we may identify. We will report out on our initial findings at an upcoming NC-based gathering of journalists, librarians, scholars, technologists, publishers, vendors, and other interested stakeholders on May 11-12, 2015, in Charlotte, NC: Dodging the Memory Hole (http://educopia.org/events/dmh). 

Your participation is voluntary. All the information that you will provide will be kept completely anonymous, so that you cannot be identified.

If you have questions about the survey, please contact Katherine Skinner at (404) 783-2534 or katherine@educopia.org.

For the purpose of the survey, "born-digital" content refers to materials that originate in a digital form, not scanned from other media. Examples include digital photographs, digital documents, digital video, social media files, etc.