ORFEUS Community Survey


Dear Colleagues, 

with this survey, we would like to invite you to provide your input and feedback as current and possibly future users of ORFEUS (https://orfeus-eu.org) data and community services. We encourage you to take this unique, one-off opportunity to inform the ORFEUS strategies and associated portfolio of services and activities. The procedure involves filling out an online form that will take approximately 20 minutes. Before starting to answer the questions in the survey, please note the ORFEUS core mission and scope (*):

“to promote seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean region through the collection, archival and distribution of digital seismic waveform data, metadata and associated services & products”, 

and that there are many other seismological services coordinated at European level by the EMSC (https://emsc-csem.org/) and EFEHR (https://emsc-csem.org/), which constitute together with ORFEUS the EPOS (https://www.epos-eu.org) Thematic Core Service for Seismology.

(*) https://www.orfeus-eu.org/documents/ORFEUS_Bylaws_November_2024.pdf


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Section 1 - Some information about yourself and your background

1. Are you an early career scientist? [i.e., a student, a PhD candidate, or a practicing scientist who received their highest certificate (e.g. BSc, MSc or PhD) within the past seven years]

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2. Please choose the roles / career stages that best applies to you:
3. Gender
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4. Country of affiliation
5. Do you primarily work in the private sector?
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6. What is your background?
Section 2a - Your experience with ORFEUS services and activities: EIDA
(https://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida/)
7. Have you ever used the EIDA data services and products promoted by ORFEUS?
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7a. If you answered “No”, please tell us why:
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8. Concerning all the above services, is there any documentation that you would need or find useful and is not presently available via orfeus-eu.org or RtD (documentation also includes the ORFEUS webinar series)?
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8a. If the EIDA documentation should be improved, please specify:
9. Concerning the webservices listed above, how do you usually interact with them?
10. In general, how satisfied are you with the EIDA services?
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10a. If highly satisfied or highly dissatisfied, please provide the respective service list:

11. Would you like to recommend any improvements?

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11a. If "Yes", please specify:
Section 2b -
Your experience with ORFEUS services and activities: Strong-Motion (Event-Based)
(https://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/strong/)

12. Have you ever used the strong-motion / event-based data services and products promoted by ORFEUS?

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12a. If you answered “No”, please tell us why


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12b. If you answered “Yes” … please mark the services you use(d)

12b (cont.). ESM webservices (https://esm-db.eu/webservices):

13. Concerning all the above services, is there any documentation that you would need or find useful and is not presently available via orfeus-eu.org / ReadTheDocs / RRSM / ESM web pages (documentation also includes the ORFEUS webinar series)?
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13a. If the documentation should be improved, please specify:
14. Concerning the webservices listed above, how do you usually interact with them?
15. In general, how satisfied are you with the Strong-Motion services?
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15a. If highly satisfied or highly dissatisfied, please provide the respective service list:

16. Would you like to recommend any improvements?

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16a. If "Yes", please specify:
Section 2c - Mobile instrument pools
17. ORFEUS has recently activated a Service Management Committee (SMC) focused on the services of “European Mobile Seismic Instrument Pools”. Please review the section “Motivation, goals, vision” at https://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/mobile/, and please list here any other activity that should be added to the portfolio of this SMC in your opinion.
Section 3 - Community services

18. Have you ever participated in any of the following activities promoted, organized or supported by ORFEUS? If yes, please select:


19. Would you like to suggest topics for future ORFEUS webinars?

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19a. If "Yes", please specify:

20. Have you ever applied or considered applying for an ORFEUS grant (e.g travel, software development, data integration, community support)?



20a. Is there any grant scheme that you would need or find useful and is not yet provided by ORFEUS?

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20b. If "Yes", please specify:

20c. Is there any amendment to the procedure to apply for ORFEUS grants that would need or find useful to ease the submission of an application of yours / your institution?

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20d. If "Yes", please specify:

21. In general, how satisfied are you with the community services and activities?

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21a. If highly satisfied or highly dissatisfied, please provide the respective service list:

22. ORFEUS has activated “focus groups” within its governing boards with the goal of collecting ideas on possible ORFEUS actions in the following domains: (a) new community experiments; (b) artificial intelligence & machine learning; (c) big data management and access; (d) real-time waveform data exchange in Europe. Please list here any other thematic area where ORFEUS should develop activities/services  in your opinion (recall the ORFEUS mission /mandate):

Section 4 - Your experience with ORFEUS web presence

23. How satisfied are you in general with the ORFEUS main website (https://www.orfeus-eu.org/)?

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23a. Would you like to suggest improvements to the ORFEUS central website?
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23b. If "Yes", please specify:

24. How satisfied are you in general with the ORFEUS documentation on ReadTheDocs (https://orfeus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/general.html)?

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25. How satisfied are you in general with the ORFEUS Forum (https://forum.orfeus-eu.org/)?

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25a. Would you like to suggest improvements to the ORFEUS Forum?

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25b. If "Yes", please specify:
26. How satisfied are you in general with the way ORFEUS websites and services are acknowledging the contributions from participants, contributors, members, etc?
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26a. If dissatisfied or highly dissatisfied, please suggest improvements:
Section 5 - General and final remarks
27. What documentation for users and data providers would you like to find across the ORFEUS web “sites” that is not presently available?
28. What new data products and services would you like to see promoted / provided by ORFEUS within its mission and scope?
29. Please let us know of any other suggestions or thoughts:
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