Dear all
could you forward the following invitation text to any lists
or colleagues who might be interested?
We particularly want to reach academics and other
professional groups (e.g. doctors, ministers, lawyers, politicians, senior
managers, etc.). We are using a quota sampling technique, so the wider
the circulation of this invitation the better. Members of the general
public will be covered in a parallel stratified survey.
Many thanks
Ian Rowlands
Digital Lives: Helping People to Capture
and Secure their Individual Memories, their Personal Creativity, their Shared Historic
Moments
Increasingly,
our family memories, our personal achievements, our experiences of historical
events, are being facilitated and recorded digitally.
Digital Lives is a pathfinding research project that is setting
out to understand how individuals retain and manage their personal collections
of computerised information - everything from digital photographs and
videos to favourite podcasts and sentimental email messages - and how these
digital collections can best be captured in the first place and preserved in
the long term, perhaps for family history, biographical or other purposes.
The project is led by Dr Jeremy Leighton John and colleagues at
the British Library who, together with experts from UCL and Bristol University,
are researching the challenges that lie ahead as more and more of our memories
and documentary witnesses exist in electronic form.
We would like to invite you to take part in our research by
completing an online survey. This should take no more than ten minutes of
your time and it will provide us with crucial information that will benefit the
work of the British Library and other archives enormously as we plan for what
is fast becoming a largely digital world.
If you would like to take part in the
survey, please click here: <http://tinyurl.com/5wtwgm>.
If you would like to enter our Prize Draw and stand a chance of
winning £200 in British Library gift vouchers (drawn at random and with no
further obligation) you can register your interest at the end of the survey.
Please note that all responses are strictly confidential.
No individuals will be named when we report our findings, and the information
collected will only be presented in an aggregated form. You will not be
contacted again as a result of completing this survey.
If you have any questions, or are concerned about the bona fides
of this survey, please email me at University College London by clicking here: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Dr Ian Rowlands (UCL School of Library, Archive & Information
Studies)
(Digital Lives is funded by the Arts &
Humanities Research Council: Grant number BLRC 8669).