Framework: This survey intends to document the issues that each institution has with multimedia formats. Please answer as completely as you can and include specific sizes, quantity and software versions if known. A summary of responses will be distributed to our
RDPP site.
Section I
Digital - This may include material on obsolete storage material like floppies or content locked into dead software like WordPerfect, but please specify formats as you can in order for the answers to be quantified accurately.
1) Which digital formats are of largest stability concern to you?
2) What percentage of digital content that you currently house, do you estimate may have degraded to an extent that it may compromise your ability to migrate.
3) What percentage of digital content that you currently house, do you expect would be unable to be read/played/opened?
4) Have you taken an inventory of digital formats in your collection? Please note if a partial inventory has been taken and why it was partial or what was inventoried (in general terms).
5) In curating existing digital objects in your collection, how are you prioritizing which material to create protection copies for? a) Based on historical or intrinsic content value b) Based on risk of existing format c) Based on day to day requests by users d) All of the above e) Other: _________________________________________________
6) What percentage of your digital collections have a duplicate copy?
7) If you have duplicates, are they available on a) The same format

b) A different digital format (please specify) _____________________________ c) An analog format (please specify) ________________________________ d) Unknown format (please explain) ________________________________
8) What percentage of your digital collections have a duplicate copy stored off-site?
9) Have you examined a long-term plan to maintain metadata assigned to digital objects?
10) Do you have a long-term bit integrity test in place?
11) Do you have a migration plan for moving digital content to more current digital formats on a regular schedule?
12) If you could have more support for Digital Preservation strategy at your institution what would you want most? (Note: This is a purposely broad question; answer it in any way that is needed for your institution.) a) More training what would it be? b) More technology tools, what would you want them to do? c) More staff, a.
What skills would they need? b.
What tasks would they perform?
13) Have you evaluated your server back-ups? Are they? a.
Full back-ups, partial, differential, etc.? b.
Are tapes rotated out regularly to avoid increased failure? c.
Is there a different back-up method? Please explain.
14) On a scale of 1 to 5 where would you feel that your organization fares with
1 being very prepared for digital preservation of objects in their current state to
5 being poorly prepared.

Please circle or bold: 1 2 3 4 5
15) On a scale of 1 to 5 where would you feel that your organization fares with
1 being very prepared for digital transformation/migration of objects to 5 being poorly prepared.
Please circle or bold: 1 2 3 4 5
16) Have you ever evaluated the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/ndsa-levels-of-digital-preservationrelease-candidate-one/ for applicability to your organization?
17) Is there a suggestion for what might make it more useful?

Section 2
Analog Mechanical – This is defined as excluding non-digital paper, manuscript and photographic formats. Focuses on multimedia such as all formats of videotape, motion film, cassettes, reel to reel, phonographic records, etc. When answering these questions, please include format specifics if you can such as size (3/4”, 1”, ½”) or speed (45rpm, 78rpm, 33
1/3rpm), etc.
18) Which analog mechanical formats are of largest degradation concern for you?
19) What percentage of analog mechanical content that you currently house, do you estimate may have degraded to an extent that it may compromise your ability to migrate?
20) What percentage of analog content that you currently house, do you expect is unable to be read/played/opened?
21) Have you taken an inventory of the analog formats in your collection? Please note if a partial inventory has been taken and why it was partial or what was inventoried (in general terms).
22) In curating existing analog mechanical objects in your collection, how are you prioritizing which material to create protection copies for? a) Based on historical or intrinsic content value b) Based on risk of existing format c) Based on day to day requests by users d) All of the above e) Other: _________________________________________________
23) What percentage of your analog mechanical collections have a duplicate copy?
24) If you have duplicates, are they available on a) The same format b) A different analog format (please specify c) A digital format (please specify) _____________________________

d) Unknown format (please explain) ________________________________ e) What percentage of your analog mechanical collections have a duplicate copy stored off-site?
25) Do you have a migration plan for moving analog content of dead formats to more current formats on a regular schedule?
26) If you could have more support for older multimedia formats at your institution what would you want most? (Note: This is a purposely broad question; answer it in any way that is needed for your institution.) d) More training, what would it be? e) More technology tools, what would you want they be? f) More staff, a.
What skills would they need? b.
What tasks would they perform?
27) On a scale of 1 to 5 where would you feel that your organization fares with
1 being very prepared for long-term access of analog multimedia objects in their current state to 5 being poorly prepared.
Please circle or bold: 1 2 3 4 5
28) On a scale of 1 to 5 where would you feel that your organization fares with
1 being very prepared for migration of analog objects to 5 being poorly prepared.
Please circle or bold: 1 2 3 4 5

29) Any additional qualifications or comments?
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Please submit to Kim Schroeder at ag1797@wayne.edu
by July 12, 2013