This survey is part of NESTOR, a project aimed at developing criteria and a
workflow for the long-term preservation of scientific digital data in
Germany. It is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research. We
would appreciate it very much if you could spare a few minutes to respond to
the questionnaire below. The outcome from this survey will be documented and
published online. We will notify you by email as soon as the report becomes
available.
The fields marked with an asterix (*) are mandatory.
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Your Name:
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Your Country:
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Name of your institute:
URL of your institute (http://...):
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Whom could we contact in your institute for more detailed questions?:
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Whom do you recommend to contact for further information?
1. Does your institute frequently generate research output in the form of primary data?
(scientific digital raw data)
yes
2. In which format are primary data generated and stored by your institute?
(weather observation data, space observation data, accelerator data, social science surveys,
epidemiological data, data from clinical studies, gene sequencing data, sound or video data, ...)
2.1. Are these raw data edited before their storage?
2.2. How are these data stored in your institution? (Tapes, CD-ROM, HDD, ...)
2.3. How many Bytes of data are stored per year?
2.4. In what file formats are the data stored? (XML, binary, proprietary, ...)
2.5. Are the files stored in a self-describing way?
(metadata describing the content of each file, condition of measurement included
into every file, useable by prospective external or future users ...)
2.6. How long will these data be stored in your institution?
2.7. Are these data made available for use by scientists from other institutions? On
what terms (on request, restricted access, open access)?
3. Do you already co-operate with an external agency for long-term preservation of the primary
data? If so, which institution? If not, for what reasons?
3.1. Do you consider intellectual property or (lack of) Digital Rights Management an
impediment to external long-term preservation archiving?
3.2. Are there disincentives to external long-term preservation resulting from institutional
competition / national security restrictions / intellectual property issues / privacy
concerns (clinical studies) / other ?
4. Provisions for long-term preservation:
4.1. Which part of the data should be archived for more than 10 years? What are the
selection criteria?
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the selection criteria?
4.3. Does your institute have a list of selection criteria for data to be long-term
archived? Where is this list available? Who is managing the selection?
4.4. Who should pay for long-term preservation of these data?
4.5. Who should pay for accessing the data?
4.6. Should these data be made available for use by scientists from other institutes?
5. Did your institute ever request primary data from other institutes (for validating published
research, or follow-up studies)?
6. Did your institute ever use data from long-term preservation? Which kind of data? Roughly, how
often did you use long-term preserved data?
6.1. Did your institute benefit from this usage?
6.2. What did you have to pay for the usage of these data?
6.3. What would be a fair price?
6.4. What would be the maximum response time for getting access to the data?
(I would like it all online to access within some seconds, 24 hours would be OK,
7 days)
6.5. What should be improved in future services?
7. Would you welcome national guidelines , a national framework, or external institutional support
for long-term preservation?
7.1. In what way would they support the mission of your institute?
8. Do you have any other comments on issues that are relevant but not covered in this
questionnaire?
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