[LINK] Fwd: [padiforum-l] online survey for Digital Lives - participation request

[Antony Barry]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Gerard Clifton" <gclifton at nla.gov.au>
> Date: 14 May 2008 9:39:13 AM
> To: "LForward padiforum-l" <padiforum-l at nla.gov.au>
> Subject: [padiforum-l] online survey for Digital Lives -  
> participation request
> Reply-To: padiforum-l at nla.gov.au
>
> [ Forwarded by request ] [ Apologies for cross posting ]
> ------
> 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:i.rowlands at ucl.ac.uk>.
> Dr Ian Rowlands (UCL School of Library, Archive & Information Studies)
> (Digital Lives is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council:  
> Grant number BLRC 8669).
>

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