Undergrad student Masters grad student PhD grad student Postdoc Masters level scientist PhD level scientist Other:
Field Laboratory Theoretical Modeling Experiments Observations
Aquatic Terrestrial Plants Animals Microbes Cellular
Mac PC Linux/Unix
Yes No
Rarely Every Day
1 2 3 4 5 Open Office Google spreadsheets Other: organize data visualize data statistics other types of analysis share data Other:
Not at all Very
1 2 3 4 5 Yes No Yes No Name Email Affiliation Yes No
Email Phone ConferenceVideo Chat Do you use other spreadsheet
programs? Area? (Circle all that apply) Status (circle one)
If Yes, to what extent?
How knowledgeable are you in Excel?
Do you use Excel in the course of your research?
What system do you use?
How do you use Excel? (Circle all that apply)
Do you use Excel with other programs?
Do you share data using Excel? What programs?
Can I contact you in the future regarding this survey?
UC3, California Digital Library
University of California Office of the President
ESA 2011 Scientist Survey Digital Curation for Excel Proejct
Yes No
Would you like to be added to the email list for the DCXL project?
Undergrad student Masters grad student PhD grad student Postdoc Masters level scientist PhD level scientist Other:
Field Laboratory Theoretical Modeling Experiments Observations
Aquatic Terrestrial Plants Animals Microbes Cellular
Mac PC Linux/Unix
Rarely Every Day
1 2 3 4 5 Open Office Google spreadsheets Other: organize data visualize data statistics other types of analysis share data Other:
Not at all Very
1 2 3 4 5
Yes No
Tables: 1 >1
pivot tables Tabs: 1 >1
headers macros comments
units embedded metadata vocabularycontrolled
formulas formatting as organization metadata filecompanion
Have you shared data publicly?
A little A lot
1 2 3 4 5
Name
How much work would it be to get your spreadsheet into a form useable by others? Do you know of any repositories for your data? Do you know what metadata are? Describe your average spreadsheet: To what extent do you use
Excel?
What programs do you use along with Excel? Do you use other
spreadsheet programs? Area? (Circle all
that apply) Status (circle one)
How knowledgeable are you in Excel?
What platform do you use?
How do you use Excel? (Circle all that apply)
UC3, California Digital Library
University of California Office of the President
ESA 2011 Scientist Survey Digital Curation for Excel Proejct
Affiliation Email
Yes No
Mac PC Linux/Unix Rarely 1 2 3 4 5 Every Day
Not at all 1 2 3 4 5 Very Libra Other: 1 >1 1 >1 Not at all 1 2 3 4 5 Very Very little 1 2 3 4 5 Many hours R
What do you do with Excel? (circle all that apply)
SigmaPlot
Masters level scientist
PhD level scientist
When using Excel, what platform do you primarily use?
organize data
visualize data
Status Undergrad student Masters student studentPhD Postdoc
Canoco Systat
statistics calculationssimple
share data with colleagues Experiments cell shading Define metadata: pivot tables macros Descriptive header rows Units indicated Embedded formulas Metadata in same Excel file
comments Metadata in
separate file
How much work would it be to get your spreadsheet(s) into a form useable by others?
Statview
What software do you use along with your Excel spreadsheets for data
processing and/or analysis? Other:
What does your research involve? Field work Lab work Models
How Frequently do you use Excel?
What other spreadsheet programs do you use?
Open Office Google Spreadsheets Access
How knowledgeable are you with Excel?
Primer GIS/ArcGIS PC-ORD SAS/JMP Matlab What would you most like an Excel add-in to help you do?
Name
Describe your average spreadsheet:
How important is it to share data publicly? (not password protected)
What repositories are you aware of to which you could submit your data?
# Tabs per Excel file: # Independent tables per sheet:
manage & organize data better for my own use
manage & organize data better for easier archiving
manage & organize data better
for others to use Create archive-specific metadata Help create project-level
metadata (locations, investigators, dates)
help me publish my data publicly
UC3, California Digital Library
University of California Office of the President
Carly Strasser [email protected]
2011 Scientist Survey Digital Curation for Excel Proejct
Yes No
Email Can I contact you re. this survey?
Field Work
Lab
Work Mac
PC
Rarely 1 2 3 4 5 Every Day
Not at all 1 2 3 4 5 Very Other: Not at all 1 2 3 4 5 Very Very little 1 2 3 4 5 Many hours Yes No Libre Google Spreadsheets
How knowledgeable are you with Excel?
Name
How likely are you to publicly share your data after publication?
Describe your workflow
Can I contact you re. this survey? How much work would it be to get your
spreadsheet(s) into a form useable by others? How Frequently do you use Excel?
Open Office
PhD Highest degree earned
What repositories are you aware of to which you could submit your data?
Other:
Matlab SAS/JMP Access
SigmaPlot GIS/ArcGIS
High School Associates Bachelors Masters
What software do you use for data processing and/or analysis? Affiliation
Where is your metadata?
Lab notebook Other computer file: Same Excel file, different tab
Separate Excel file
Same Excel file, same tab What other spreadsheet programs do you use?
Metadata definition?
2000 2002 2003 2007 2010
Describe your analysis
How do you back up your data?
How do you handle versioning?
R
Affiliation
Government Academic Museum NGO Other:
Data analysis only
Excel version? What does your
research involve?
