### Summary: This project contains the survey instrument and resulting data from the study "What makes a digital steward: A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies" by [Karl-Rainer Blumenthal](http://landscapelibrarian.com/), [Peggy Griesinger](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-griesinger-413a2173), [Julia Kim](https://twitter.com/jy_kim29), [Shira Peltzman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shira-peltzman-82389114), and [Vicky Steeves](http://www.vickysteeves.com). ### Introduction: Digital stewardship is a rapidly maturing field within library and information science. This domain engages in the active and long-term management of digital objects towards their preservation for and unencumbered access by future generations. Although this field is growing quickly, it lacks a compentancy profile for practioners that is commonplace in LIS (example: the American Library Association's [Core Compentencies of Librarianship](http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/sites/ala.org.educationcareers/files/content/careers/corecomp/corecompetences/finalcorecompstat09.pdf)). This study sought to fill that gap by creating a profile of the skills, responsibilities, and knowledge areas that define competency in digital stewardship, based on three key datasets: 1) literature in the field through a literature review (to define the scope of the profile), 2) NDSR project descriptions, qualitatively analyzed to get a baseline understanding of expected competencies 3) the results of a survey given to current and past NDSR residents, quantitively evaluated to illustrate competencies’ importance to professional success. The files provided here consist of the datasets that underscore the study. Below, the authors have listed, in detail, the formatting and purpose of each dataset within the study. ### Components: #### Format Types The data represented here take a variety of formats: + .qsf - proprietary Qualtrics format; can be imported into Qualtrics directly. + .pdf - PortableDocumentFormat, read-only documents. + .odt - OpenDocumentText format; open source file format that can be imported into various word processing software. + .html - HyperTextMarkupLanguage format; can be opened and explored using a Web browser (no Internet required if you download the file). + .sav - file format for SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), a proprietary statistics package. + .csv - open-source format, can be imported into any program made to deal with numerical and tabular data. #### Data <b>Literature Review</b>: A folder containing the annotated bibliography and index of resulting "competency area" terms that were created through literature review. + [Annotated-bibliography.pdf][1] <br/> <b>Survey Instrument</b>: A folder containing the web survey used to gather data from participants, including question numbers, logical flow, and informed consent form. + [WhatMakesADigSteward_SurveyInstrument.qsf](https://osf.io/qvmp9/) + [WhatMakesADigSteward_SurveyInstrument.pdf](https://osf.io/ghcun/) + [WhatMakesADigSteward_SurveyInstrument.odt](https://osf.io/px6wj/) + [WhatMakesADigSteward_SurveyInstrument.html](https://osf.io/wntc9/) <br/> <b>Raw Survey Data</b>: A folder containing the results from the survey implementation, completely unchanged from their original export from Qualtrics. + [2016-04-11_rawSurveyData.sav](https://osf.io/hf5wg/) + [2016-04-11_rawSurveyData.csv](https://osf.io/yv8wh/) <br/> <b>Cleaned Survey Data</b>: A folder containing the results from the survey implementation cleaned by the authors to provide a foundation for analytical work. + [2016-04-11_cleanedSummarySurveyData.csv](https://osf.io/hj56r/) + [2016-04-11_cleanSurveyData.csv](https://osf.io/ca7j8/) + [2016-04-11_cleanSurveyData.sav](https://osf.io/s2kfy/) <br/> <b>NDSR Project Descriptions</b>: A folder containing all of the project descriptions for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program, with the exception of [AAPB](https://ndsr.americanarchive.org/), which had not started at the time of data collection. All project descriptions are stored in PDF format. These documents were used in the authors' document analysis. + <em>Boston</em>: - [2015Boston-Harvard.pdf](https://osf.io/a69ef/): The project description for the residency at Harvard University Library from 2014-2015. - [2015Boston-MIT.pdf](https://osf.io/8jwm3/): The project description for the residency at Massachusetts Institute for Technology Library from 2014-2015. - [2015Boston-Northeastern.pdf](https://osf.io/s5zuv/): The project description for the residency at Northeastern University Special Collections and Archive from 2014-2015. - [2015Boston-Tufts.pdf](https://osf.io/95ytd/): The project description for the residency at Tufts University from 2014-2015. - [2015Boston-WGBH.pdf](https://osf.io/m4ypq/): The project description for the residency at WGBH Media Library and Archives from 2014-2015. - [2016Boston-AllProjects.pdf](https://osf.io/adrt6/): All the project descriptions for the Boston residencies for 2015-2016 were distributed in one single document. This includes Residencies at: Harvard University Library, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, State Library of Massachusetts, and University of Massachusetts at Boston, University Archives & Special Collections, Joseph P. Healey Library. + <em>New York</em>: - [2015NY-AMNH.pdf](https://osf.io/wneyt/): The project description for the residency at the Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History from 2014-2015. - [2015NY-Carnegie.pdf](https://osf.io/3j2xg/): The project description for the residency at the Carnegie Hall Digital Archive from 2014-2015. - [2015NY-MoMA.pdf](https://osf.io/xw2gf/): The project description for the residency in the Media Conservation department in the Museum of Modern Art from 2014-2015. - [2015NY-NYARC.pdf](https://osf.io/xmchq/): The project description for the residency at the New York Art Resources Consortium from 2014-2015. - [2015NY-NYU.pdf](https://osf.io/n7256/): The project description for the residency at New York University Libraries from 2014-2015. - [2016NY-BAM.pdf](https://osf.io/h964c/): The project description for the residency at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from 2015-2016. - [2016NY-CUNY.pdf](https://osf.io/fqkva/): The project description for the residency at the City University of New York TV Library from 2015-2016. - [2016NY-NYPR.pdf](https://osf.io/qzcxa/): The project description for the residency at New York Public Radio from 2015-2016. - [2016NY-Rhizome.pdf](https://osf.io/9qwkf/): The project description for the residency at Rhizome ArtBase from 2015-2016. - [2016NY-WCS.pdf](https://osf.io/s7gdx/): The project description for the residency at the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives from 2015-2016. + <em>Washington D.C.</em>: - [2015DC-ARL.pdf](https://osf.io/jk5v2/): The project description for the residency at Association of Research Libraries from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-DumbartonOaks.pdf](https://osf.io/7s3h5/): The project description for the residency at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-Folger.pdf](https://osf.io/w6zph/): The project description for the residency at the Folger Shakespeare Library from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-LC.pdf](https://osf.io/ysmzq/): The project description for the residency at the Library of Congress from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-NLM.pdf](https://osf.io/mp3nv/): The project description for the residency at the National Library of Medicine from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-NSA.pdf](https://osf.io/dn8uq/): The project description for the residency at the National Security Archive at George Washington University from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-PBS.pdf](https://osf.io/mnrp4/): The project description for the residency at the Public Broadcasting Service Media Library and Archive from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-Smithsonian.pdf](https://osf.io/j4a6h/): The project description for the residency at the Smithsonian Institution Archives from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-UMD.pdf](https://osf.io/v3bmy/): The project description for the residency at the University of Maryland, specifically the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities from 2014-2015. - [2015DC-WorldBank.pdf](https://osf.io/4f6ax/): The project description for the residency at the World Bank Group Archives from 2014-2015. - [2016DC-AIA.pdf](https://osf.io/5agvb/): The project description for the residency at the American Institute of Architects from 2015-2016. - [2016DC-DCPL.pdf](https://osf.io/bh56e/): The project description for the residency at the Washington D.C. Public Library from 2015-2016. - [2016DC-GPO.pdf](https://osf.io/f9hcd/): The project description for the residency at the Government Publishing Office from 2015-2016. - [2016DC-NLM.pdf](https://osf.io/vx8dm/): The project description for the residency at the National Library of Medicine from 2015-2016. - [2016DC-USSenate.pdf](https://osf.io/f5kun/): The project description for the residency at the United States Senate from 2015-2016. [1]: https://osf.io/rcnyh/