Results of CIDOC's questionnaire

CIDOC NEWSLETTER

Volume 9, August 1998

Results of CIDOC's questionnaire

Daniela Daneliuc

The CIDOC Board together with the CIDOC Services WG initiated a survey of CIDOC members on the occasion of the Annual Meeting, in Nuremberg, last year. The Survey's goal was to update the existing information, to develop the existing data with information about the members activities and to evaluate the audience for the use of CIDOC' publications and documents on standard.

A questionnaire was sent to all members twice, first with the 1997 Annual Meeting Minutes and later on with the Call for Nominations.

The Questionnaire was made available on the ICOM web site from April 1998 [until 2001. Now withdrawn.]

Although the data collected by this time may not illustrate the real level of the "cultural diversity" of CIDOC, I think it would be worth to present some statistics and to draw some conclusions of this study.

Total number of members who answered the questionnaire: 150 out of some 900 members. Only 6 answered the questionnaire on internet!

Membership type
Individual members 131
Institutional members 19

Membership type
Individual members	131
Institutional members	19

Geographical spread
Europe 106
Africa 13
South America 8
North America (USA + Canada) 7
Asia (India) 1
Australia 4

Geographical spread
Europe	106
Africa	13
South America	8
North America (USA + Canada)	7
Asia (India)	1
Australia	4

Internet use
Internet access (home or office) 108
Use of CIDOC website 68

Internet use
Internet access (home or office)	108
Use of CIDOC website	68

Voting members of CIDOC 80

Working groups members 69

Conferences attended
None 64
1 - 3 36
More than 3 23
Regularly 17
Will attend 1998 25

Conferences attended
None	64
1 - 3	36
More than 3	23
Regularly	17
Will attend 1998	25

Knowledge of CIDOC publications
Don't know Know Use
CIDOC newsletter (1990- ) 7 18 115
Terminology control bibliography (1990) 77 2 24
Fact sheet 1: Registration step by step (1993) 59 31 41
Directory of thesauri for object names (1994) 67 41 23
Fact sheet 2: Labelling and marking objects (1994) 69 27 33
Data modelling bibliography (1994) 79 30 19
International guidelines for museum object information 64 34 35
Draft core data standard for archaeological sites 77 33 19
CIDOC relational data model (1995) 75 33 19
A guide to the CIDOC relational data model (1995) 82 28 15
International core data standard for ethnography 77 33 19
Introduction to multimedia (1996) 77 29 23
ICOM study series 3 (1996) 54 32 46

Knowledge of CIDOC publications
	Don't know	Know	Use
CIDOC newsletter (1990- )	7	18	115
Terminology control bibliography (1990)	77	2	24
Fact sheet 1: Registration step by step (1993)	59	31	41
Directory of thesauri for object names (1994)	67	41	23
Fact sheet 2: Labelling and marking objects (1994)	69	27	33
Data modelling bibliography (1994)	79	30	19
International guidelines for museum object information	64	34	35
Draft core data standard for archaeological sites	77	33	19
CIDOC relational data model (1995)	75	33	19
A guide to the CIDOC relational data model (1995)	82	28	15
International core data standard for ethnography	77	33	19
Introduction to multimedia (1996)	77	29	23
ICOM study series 3 (1996)	54	32	46

These figures highlight some interesting points:

a large percentage of members who have Internet access do not use the CIDOC Website
there is a small percentage of regular conference attendance
there is a large number of CIDOC members, mostly voting members, who are not familiar with the CIDOC publications and documents on standards and who mentioned in their comments that they would like to obtain them.

Obviously this survey would have been more relevant if all the 900 CIDOC members had answered the Questionnaire. Nevertheless, even these figures should draw the attention of CIDOC to stimulate information exchange among its members, within the museum documentation community and to encourage all members in becoming more involved with the Committee's activities.

Daniela Daneliuc
CIMEC - Institute for Cultural Memory
Piata Presei Libere 1, 71341 Bucharest, Romania
tel./fax: +40 1 222 33 47
Email: daniela@cimec.ro