OMB approves
this extension of a previously-approved survey its emergency
clearance process. IMLS agrees to plan adequately so that it can
follow the normal PRA clearance procedures for future collections
of information.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
08/31/2007
6 Months From Approved
50
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0
21
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521
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0
This study is to determine the
feasibility of using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Metadata
Harvesting Protocol to aggregate and provide integrated item-level
search access to the digitization projects funded by IMLS.
IMLS is supporting the
development of a digital collections registry to make publicly
available digital collections created with IMLS grant funding. In
September 2005 IMLS extended this grant project period to September
30, 2007, so that digitization projects IMLS funded through 2006
could be added to the Collections Registry. The OMB clearance
3137-0051 expired on September 30, 2006. IMLS has been working with
the University of Illinois, Urbana-champaign, the institution
performing the data collections, to determine the burden hours and
costs of adding 50 respondents, covering 2005 and 2006 projects to
the clearance. We have found that the additional burden of asking
the same questions to the new respondents is extermely small. Each
respondent needs 25 minutes at a cost of $25/hour $10.42 per
respondent. Total additional hours are 20.84, a total burden of
$521. Graduate students at the University have been hired and are
already working on this second phase of the project with the
original set of respondents. If clearance for the remaining
projects is not granted on an emergency basis, the test bed for the
research on IMLS digital projects, will be delayed and possibly
will not be able to be completed, a loss for IMLS and for public
users of the completed registry. Most pressing, this project has a
follow-on survey that has been approved (3137-0061) for the first
set of respondents and expires on February 28, 2007. (IMLS will
submit a subsequent 83c to add the 50 new respondents to 3137-0061
well before the expiration date.) These new respondents must
complete the first survey right away, so that there will be time
for them to be in the registry a sufficient time before they have
to complete the follow-up survey. This will ensure that complete
and meaningful data is obtained for this project. In clearance
3137-0051 there were two data collections. This emergency clearance
is only for one of them. The survey for the new respondents gathers
basic information about the project, its baseline practices, and
attitudes towards digital collections, metadata, etc. Among other
things, we use the information gathered to create original registry
collection record(s) for the project. Each project fills out this
survey once and only once.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Responses to OMB questions.doc
Digital Collections and Content