About this survey
PrestoCentre is gathering data about planned and completed film, audio and video digitisation projects. Information and experiences about digitisation, storage, metadata and access will be of enormous help to other cultural heritage institutions and their funders. We’re looking for ways of thinking about budgets, particularly long-term, and for insights into the hardest challenges facing your organisation. This information is being gathered to map out an encompassing, yet detailed, understanding of the challenges facing AV preservation initiatives. The compiled results will be useful for the AV archiving community, helping us all learn about the wider context of experiences, issues and practices in which we operate.
Who should take this survey?
Senior managers in AV archives that take strategic decisions on sustainability, major expenditures and funding for digitisation, decisions about technology, architecture, standards, vendors, and particular systems. We are looking not only for numbers, but also for ways of thinking about budgets, particularly long term, and for insights into the hardest challenges facing your organisation, and you, as a manager. Partial answers are still very useful; and anonymity if needed will be respected.
Your participation in this survey couldn’t be easier. In return for your participation, you’ll receive, for free, an annual report containing invaluable financial and statistical data that will help us all understand what things really cost, how those costs are changing over time, how best to negotiate with vendors and service providers, and how our peers think about the problems we all share.
This survey should take no longer than 25 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time and valuable contribution!
Before you begin
Before you begin, we advise you to download the copy of the survey questions here to prepare your answers carefully. Some questions require details that you may not have readily available, or that you would like to consider with a colleague first.
Privacy
PrestoCentre aims to protect the privacy of all sensitive information collected through this survey and recognizes the need for confidentiality in providing a quality service. All information is collected for the specific purpose of researching digitisation costs, information vital in assisting AV archives in their future digitisation ventures. Any information given to us will be treated in the strictest confidence. Results are only ever presented as statistics, not in a form which can reveal your identity. Information collected or used, including information collected for administrative or management purposes, will maintain respondents' confidentiality at all times.