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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">****Please excuse cross-postings****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Greetings:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This is a friendly reminder that our survey, “Identifying Motivations for DAMS Migration: A Survey”, concludes on October 1, 2014.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We are soliciting survey responses from information professionals at institutions which are migrating, have migrated, or will migrate to
a new digital asset management system. The title of the survey is “Identifying Motivations for DAMS Migration: A Survey.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For the purposes of this survey, a digital asset management system (DAMS) is software that supports the ingest, “description, tracking, discovery,
retrieval, searching, and distribution of collections of digital objects </span>
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[1]”. <span style="color:black">
Some examples of commonly used DAMS are: CONTENTdm, DSpace, Islandora, DigiTool, Fedora, etc.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Please note that this survey does
<i>not</i> focus on systems used exclusively as institutional repositories, which we consider to be repositories that only provide access to the “intellectual output of an institution
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[2]”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The results from our survey will possibly lead to a publication in a professional journal and/or presentations at relevant professional conferences.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If your institution meets these parameters, we would appreciate your participation in this survey. The survey will take approximately 20
minutes to complete and will not ask for or obtain any personally identifying information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">You can access the survey here:</span><a href="https://qtrial2013.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3JgGpZH0UNRSnlP"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span></a><a href="https://uiuc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3aw56frpWbGLlgV"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">https://uiuc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3aw56frpWbGLlgV
</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us (information provided below).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We look forward to seeing your responses and sharing the results of our research.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Santi Thompson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:sathompson3@uh.edu">sathompson3@uh.edu</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ayla Stein</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[1] <span style="color:black">
<a href="http://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/d/digital-assets-management-system">http://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/d/digital-assets-management-system</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository#cite_note-eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk-1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository#cite_note-eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk-1</a>
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