Dear colleagues: Please excuse and ignore cross postings.

Below is the introduction to a survey to which I invite and request your 
participation.  Please also forward this message to other records colleagues and 
to other non-records stakeholders in your organizations, especially auditors, 
inspectors general, lawyers, CIOs and other records USERS whom you may know 
(historians, journalists, etc.)  While we of course wish to receive direct inputs 
from ARM professionals, we are very eager in this survey to obtain feedback 
from people who rely heavily on access to trustworthy records as users and 
creators of records. While we have good list access to the ARM communities, we 
don't have it for other important users and creators of records such as noted 
above.  Your assistance is greatly appreciated. 

While it is about a US interagency report, we invite international 
participation as well. Such respondents should simply click on the "Other" category for 
question 2 of the survey.

Regards,

Rick Barry
http://www.mybestdocs.com/ 
Co-founder, Open Reader Consortium
http://www.openreader.org/  

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Effective Management of Government Information on the Internet and Other 
Electronic Records: an independent survey by Rick Barry http://www.mybestdocs.com/ 

INTRODUCTION: IF YOU RECEIVED THIS SURVEY IN YOUR ROLE PRINCIPALLY AS A 
RECORDS CREATOR (PROGRAM MGR/STAFF) OR USER (LAWYER, AUDITOR, HISTORIAN, 
JOURNALIST,ETC), PLEASE COMPLETE IT YOURSELF RATHER THAN SENDING IT TO ARCHIVES/RECORDS 
STAFF WHO SHOULD SEPARATELY RECEIVE AND COMPLETE THEIR OWN SURVEY. YOUR 
PERSPECTIVES AS RECORDS USERS/CREATORS/MANAGERS ARE VERY IMPORTANT.

The purpose of this survey is to determine the extent to which key users of 
public records are aware of two major interagency reports on “Effective 
Management of Government Information on the Internet and Other Electronic Records” 
and their issues and recommendations. If approved, they will be used as major 
government electronic records policymaking resources. It is thus important to 
obtain views of stakeholders in the public, private and non-profit sectors and 
academia – historians, auditors, journalists, educators, information managers 
and other researchers – who require easy access to trustworthy electronic 
records to carry out their work. It is also important to determine if key user 
stakeholders may not have been aware of these reports and their findings. Thus, 
even stakeholders who were not aware of, or haven’t read, these reports are 
requested to complete this survey. The survey also seeks views of those who 
produce or manage public records at all government levels. No individually 
identifiable information will be accessible by the author or be provided in the results 
of this survey except where participants wish to insert such information in 
free-text, “Optional” comments sections. A few demographic questions are asked 
to differentiate reactions among different stakeholder groups. The survey 
quotes, but is not limited to, findings and recommendations identified by the 
Electronic Records Policy Working Group (ERPWG) in two reports addressed to the 
Interagency Committee on Government Information: “Barriers to the Effective 
Management of Government Information on the Internet and Other Electronic Records”
 (Draft, June 28, 2004), and “Recommendations for the Effective Management of 
Government Information on the Internet and Other Electronic Records” (Draft, 
October 20, 2004). http://www.cio.gov/documents/ICGI/ERPWG_Recommendations.pdf 

Although this survey has not been requested/underwritten by any organization, 
like a previous survey conducted by this author, “Report on the Society and 
Archives Survey,” 29 January 2003, its results will be published on 
www.mybestdocs.com and be accessible to all participants as well as ERPWG and other 
interested parties. In the interest of producing timely results, respondents are 
urged to take the few minutes necessary to complete the survey as soon as 
possible but in any case not later than Tuesday, January 11, 2005 and to make the 
survey known to other colleagues privately and by posting to professional 
discussion lists/blogs and encourage them to do the same.

The survey is accessible at:  
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB22426QEW6JG 


Thank you for your participation. If you have any questions on the survey, 
please contact the author, Rick Barry, at [log in to unmask] 

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