Welcome to the BenchmarkDP consultation on software evaluation in the digital preservation field !
With this consultation we intend to get insights into the current state of software evaluations in the digital preservation field. We are interested in the current practices of software evaluations, challenges faced, limitations and advantages they bring to the running businesses. Finally, we are interested in better community-driven evaluation initiatives and want to gauge community members’ willingness to participate in such initiatives.
Who are we ?
BenchmarkDP is a research project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). It has started in November 2012 and is running until summer 2016. You can find more information at
http://benchmark-dp.org Why participate ?
By participating in this consultation, you can help us to get a better overview of the software evaluation practices and results in the digital preservation field. This will enable us to invest our limited resources in the place where they are most needed and will have the biggest impact.
Who should participate ?
This consultation is open to everybody who wants to participate. We are interested to cover categories that are related to software tools and evaluations of those tools. So if you are a practitioner working with software tools in a memory institution, or a software developer developing solutions for digital preservation problems, or a researcher in the digital preservation area doing research related to software tools, you are most welcome to join.
How long does it take ?
This is a short consultation. It shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes to finish it.
Privacy
This consultation doesn’t collect any private data unless you decide to provide your contact details. The only data it collects are the answers to the questions. The collected data will be used for the research purposes and summarized results will be publicly available. The data is collected through Google Forms and after the consultation is closed it will be stored on a secure server.
This consultation is open until 30th of November 2015.