Survey Questions (mid-July -tb):

• Do you have audio/video assets in your collection?
• List kinds/quantity:
  • Film
  • VHS
  • Beta
  • Cassette
  • Open reel tape
  • Digital
• If so, are any of the items unique, or one of a kind?
• How many of the items hold research/intellectual value in your field?
• Are any items necessary for your work?
• On a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being most important), how important is it that these items be preserved, digitally for future use?
• Please briefly describe how you use these items in your work.
• Are you currently delivering a/v assets online?
• If so, how/quantity?
  • YouTube
  • CIT Real Media Server
  • E-Commons
  • CUL Flash server
• Do you have plans for delivering streaming a/v in the coming 2 years?
  • Free text
• Do you have unmet needs in a/v?
  • Free text

Forum overview (mid-late Sept):

• Kaltura examples:
  • Collection development (Bathrick)
  • Media Space
  • Other use case examples (an institution farther along in implementation)
• Library needs
  • Centralized space/ access?
  • E-Commons policies
  • IP Issues
  • Preservation (what gets preserved? how does it link to the repository?)
  • Cost distribution

In-Person Interviews:

Materials Information:

1. Could you tell us more about your materials?
2. How are they currently being stored? (Including conditions of the storage environment)
2. Can you support archive quality storage for your materials?
2. Do any hold commercial value? If so, what percentage?
3. Are any materials unique or scarce? How so and what percentage?
4. Are these materials available to students or in circulation? How so and what percentage?
5. Do you provide access to your materials? How do you provide access? 
6. Our goal to comprehensively help you and your department preserve audiovisual research and teaching materials. What are some of your unmet needs in this area?
7. Is there an annual budget for managing your AV assets?
8. At what rate are you acquiring assets for you collection?

1. Research value?

• Has this material ever been cited in a publication? How many times?
• Used by a researcher in the last 2 years?
• Essential to a particular field of research for you or in your department?
• Any materials associated with government funded research?
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  2. Historical value?
• Cornell specifically? 
• To a larger research community?
• What percentage?
  3. Teaching value?
• Are these materials available to students or in circulation? How so and what percentage?
• Are you delivering AV materials online? If so, what delivery platform do you use?
• If they were made available online, would that help you or your research community?
• Did you have plans for online delivery already?
• Do you have a need for secure delivery or delivery to a restricted audience? (ie. Cornell, your class, your department, etc.)

IT/Digital Involvement Portion:

- Could you tell us more about how you use IT support for AV materials? Is it a problem area for you or your department?
- How much of your AV content is already in digital form? Did you migrate it?
- Do you have a system in place for digital migration of assets?
- How much of your AV content was 'born digital'?
- How big is your digital collection? (file size, bulk number)
- Have you ever lost digital AV assets or related data due to hard drive failure, etc? Could you explain?
- Is digital storage space a problem for you or your department? Have you ever deleted assets due to lack of storage space?
- If you have digital AV assets, do you have processes in place to ensure integrity of the files? (checksums, fixity, etc.)