GLAM/OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey/Data

Note that the webpages related to the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey are no longer maintained; an archived version is available at Zenodo.

Data for all countries

The datafile contains all data gathered so far. The data has been cleansed. In addition to the basic variables from the questionnaire it contains extra variables which may be useful for the analysis of the data:

Data for all countries (12 October 2017) - Poland, Finland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Ukraine, Spain, Russia (SAV) (CSV) (Dictionary in XLS) (SPSS Syntax used to create the datafile)
Data for all countries (2 March 2017) - Poland, Finland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Ukraine, Spain (SAV) (CSV) (Dictionary in XLS) (SPSS Syntax used to create the datafile)
Data for all countries (16 January 2016) - Poland, Finland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Ukraine (SAV) (CSV) (Dictionary in XLS) (SPSS Syntax used to create the datafile)
Data for all countries (18 August 2015) - Poland, Finland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal (SAV) (CSV) (Dictionary in XLS) (SPSS Syntax used to create the datafile)
Data for all countries (19 June 2015) - Poland, Finland, Switzerland, The Netherlands (SAV) (CSV) (Dictionary in XLS) (SPSS Syntax used to create the datafile)
Data for all countries (24 March 2015) - Poland, Finland (SAV) (CSV) (Dictionary in XLS) (SPSS Syntax used to create the datafile)

Data per country

Country	N contacted ^[1]	N responses ^[2]	Response rate ^[3]	Resp. rate archives	Resp. rate libraries	Resp. rate museums	Details resp. rates	Data file
Brazil	3423	203	6.3%	13.3%	3.8% ^[4]	6.2%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
Bulgaria	182	18	10.4%	14.3%	27.6%	6.8%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
Finland	356	81	25.8%	50.0%	37.3%	20.6%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
New Zealand	317	35	12.0%	8.8%	12.8%	8.8%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
Poland	669	79	12.0%	20.6%	17.3%	9.8%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
Portugal	667	104	16.5%	37.0%	18.8%	13.6%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
Russia	3497	262	8.2%	5.4%	9.9%	8.8%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.95: SAV, CSV
Spain	4982	267	5.9%	5.7%	5.6%	6.8%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.95: SAV, CSV
Switzerland (and Fürstentum Liechtenstein)	1543 (of which 11 FL)	278 (of which 2 FL)	19.4%	27.1%	28.7%	16.2%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
The Netherlands	1393	146	12.3%	16.3%	14.6%	9.9%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV
Ukraine	567	85	15.0%	9.8%	23.8%	13.9%	Response Rates (HTML)	Version 0.94: SAV, CSV

↑ Number of institutions which have been contacted (each institution is counted once, even if it has been contacted via several email addresses or through different channels, e.g. follow-up phone calls in addition to e-mail reminders; the number includes institutions which never received the e-mail invitation due to an invalid e-mail address)
↑ Number of institutions which have completed the questionnaire (almost) in full, i.e. institutions which have responded to at least 19 out of the 24 non-conditional questions of the questionnaire (or the equivalent number if some of the non-conditional questions were not included in a particular country).
↑ For the purpose of the calculation of the response rate, institutions which have started to fill in the questionnaire but dropped out after question A2 as they did not correspond to the survey's definition of heritage institutions, are counted as responses.
↑ The Brazilian contacts file contained many libraries that don't qualify as "heritage institutions" as it was impossible to filter them out based on the data available.

Basic Data Analyses

The links provided point to HTML files; the SPSS output files are available under the same file name, with the extension ".spv" instead of ".htm".

Syntax Files

Documentation

Questionnaire

While most of the respondents filled in the online questionnaire, there is also a PDF version available for reference purposes:

English version, not localized, currency: Euro (Version 1, Fall 2014)
English version, not localized, currency: Euro (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Bulgarian version (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Dutch version (Version 2, Spring 2015)
English version (New Zealand) (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Finnish version (Version 1, Fall 2014)
French version (Switzerland) (Version 2, Spring 2015)
German version (Switzerland) (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Polish version (Version 1, Fall 2014)
Portuguese version (Portugal) (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Portuguese version (Brazil) (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Russian version (Russia) (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Russian version (Ukraine) (Version 2, Spring 2015)
Spanish version (Spain) (Version 2, Spring 2015) - NB: Due to a mistake, the online questionnaire used for Spain did not contain question A-8 (annual revenues).
Ukrainian version (Ukraine) (Version 2, Spring 2015)

Caveats and Limitations

A document listing the caveats and limitations of the survey is in preparation. In the meanwhile, the results of the data consistency checks, the analysis of response rates per question and the analysis of the self-selection bias which have been carried out on the basis of some of the datasets, can be found here:

Analysis of Response Rates and Estimation of Sample Bias - Proceedings, (Version 0.9) (Finland, Poland)
Analysis of Response Rates and Estimation of Sample Bias - Proceedings, (Version 0.91) (Finland, Poland, Switzerland, The Netherlands)

Proceedings

Data Export Proceedings (Version 0.92) (Poland and Finland; corrected version)
Data Export Proceedings (Version 0.93) (with some minor corrections)
Data Export Proceedings (Version 0.94) (Portugal, Switzerland, The Netherlands; Poland and Finland updated datasets)
Data Export Proceedings (Version 0.95)

Variables

Basic Variables, Version 0.92 (Poland and Finland; corrected version)
Basic Variables, Version 0.94 (Finland, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, The Netherlands)

Responses to Open Questions

Text Strings Translation and Recoding (10 October 2017) (Brazil, Bulgaria, Finland, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Spain, Russia)

Re-Use / How to Cite

We would love if the data and results of this project are reused, reanalysed and reinterpreted as much as possible. And of course, we would love to hear from you if you are actually using our data for your own research. And don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or comments: beat.estermannbfh.ch

Below our suggestion how to cite the questionnaire and the datasets that are made available via this page:

Questionnaire:

Version 1: Estermann, B., Brinkerink, M., Echevarria, G, Kawęcka D., Marttila S., Pekel J., Sanderhoff, M., and Valente M. (2014) Questionnaire of the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey 2014-2015 (Version 1, Fall 2014). Bern University of Applied Sciences, in cooperation with Open Knowledge's OpenGLAM Working Group. Retrieved [date] from http://survey.openglam.ch/questionnaire_en_v1_EUR.pdf

Version 2: Estermann, B., Brinkerink, M., Echevarria, G, Kawęcka D., Marttila S., Pekel J., Sanderhoff, M., and Valente M. (2014) Questionnaire of the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey 2014-2015 (Version 2, Spring 2015). Bern University of Applied Sciences, in cooperation with Open Knowledge's OpenGLAM Working Group. Retrieved [date] from http://survey.openglam.ch/questionnaire_en_v2_EUR.pdf

If you are referring to a particular language version other than the English original version, you may also include the names of the translators; for this purpose, please refer to the list of translators.

The questionnaire is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

Datasets: Estermann, B. (2015-2017). Data File and Documentation, Public Use: OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey 2014-2017, [Country, Version]. Bern University of Applied Sciences, in cooperation with Open Knowledge's OpenGLAM Working Group. Available from http://survey.openglam.ch

The data files and the documentation are still work in progress. Once they are "finished", they will also be released under a free license.

[1] Number of institutions which have been contacted (each institution is counted once, even if it has been contacted via several email addresses or through different channels, e.g. follow-up phone calls in addition to e-mail reminders; the number includes institutions which never received the e-mail invitation due to an invalid e-mail address)

[2] Number of institutions which have completed the questionnaire (almost) in full, i.e. institutions which have responded to at least 19 out of the 24 non-conditional questions of the questionnaire (or the equivalent number if some of the non-conditional questions were not included in a particular country).

[3] For the purpose of the calculation of the response rate, institutions which have started to fill in the questionnaire but dropped out after question A2 as they did not correspond to the survey's definition of heritage institutions, are counted as responses.

[4] The Brazilian contacts file contained many libraries that don't qualify as "heritage institutions" as it was impossible to filter them out based on the data available.

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