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Questions we must ask ourselves
- Why are we doing this survey?
- What can potential users tell us that we can not just figure out for ourselves?
- This is not a statistically meaningful demographic survey. It is not a vote for the most popular features. Essentially anything any single person asks for becomes a 'requirement', but may be one we end up deciding not to implement.
- More use to us would be targeting questions in such a way as to maximise descriptive feedback of real use cases.
- Do the answers we get here also inform the entire observatorys' science cases?
- Present it to users as "we are redesigning the archive" or as "we are looking at the science goals of the user community and how to best serve them"?
Be careful to include all target audiences
- Astronomers
- Our own internally managed outreach/education programs
- Wider public outreach?
- Schools?
We discussed an analysis comparing what users say they want with what they actually do on the existing LT archive. (An SPIE paper?) In order to pursue that, we would need to include in the survey questions that request their input on metrics we can specifically address from the existing logs. That requires a first draft of the 'usage audit' to be prepared before we write the questions.
Are you
(current or past user | prospective user | not expecting to use)
Are you
(student | early career | senior academic)
Current user?
(Not used LT | Used LT but not the archive | Used the archive but not had my own time allocation)
Which wavelength range is your primary investigation? (one)
Which wavelength ranges are also useful to you? (multiple)
(Gamma | UV/X | Optical/NIR | M/FIR | micro | radio | non-EM | multi-messenger)
What per centage of your observing relates to solar system targets?
What per centage of your observing relates to response to transients, triggers or targets of opportunity?
Is your research typically
(based on discrete data sets from individual telescopes | dependent on combining data from multiple facilities?)
Does you science typically involve repeated visits to the same source?
(Sometimes | No | Regular Monitoring)
Which best characterises your usage of an observatory archive, thinking only about access to your own proprietary observations, not data mining
- Download and keep a copy locally, routinely as soon as available
- Let data accumlate and download them all once in a block at later date
- Download the same data multiple times, whenever you want to look at them
Have you used the existing LT Science Archive?
(Yes, No)
Have you used the LT Science Archive for data product other than your observation data?
(Yes, No, Comment:)
Do you find the quicklook images useful?
(Yes | No, Comment:)
How would you rate the present query speed?
(0-5, 0: Bad, 5: Good, Comment:)
Do you use the archived reduced data products directly for science or do you reprocess the science data from scratch?
(0-5, 0: never reprocess, 5: always reprocess, Comment:)
What other features would you like to have?
(Comment:)
Is it a significant positive appeal to you that a data archive offers science-ready reduced or derived data products rather than raw data?
(0-5)
Would it be useful to provide both science and engineering data?
(0-5)
How useful would it be to integrate with external database
(0-5)
If they were all offered, what per centage of the time would you expect to use an interface presented as
- A structured web-form-like interface to enter predefined search criteria in a guided manner
- Command-line style scripting interface for constructing arbitrarily complex queries
- Fully interactive graphical environment. e.g., browsable google sky with available obs overlaid
- Machine accessible API. Non-human interface
Please rate the user experience of the following archives? (This question could be broken down further into 'ease of use' and 'functional effectiveness' as two different questions?)
- Liverpool Telescope Archive
- CDS Portal
- CDS Simbad
- CDS Vizier
- Issac Newton Group Archive
- Hubble Legacy Archive
- Variants of CasJobs
- SuperCOSMOS/VISTA Science Archive
- InfraRed Science ArchiveESO Archive
- NASA Exoplanet Archive
(0-5 & N/A & Comment: , 0: I used it because that is the only option, 5: would be great if every system is like this)
Name any online data archive (astro, science or anything) that you think merits emulation
(Comment: )
What are the other Astronomical archives that you have used, and the user experience rating?
(Comment: )
What are the other non-Astronomical data archives that you have used, and the user experience rating?
(Comment: )
Would you like to ingest your own data into the archive system?
(Yes, No, Comment: )
Though this questionnaire is anonymous, please feel free to contact us with any related thoughts, suggestions or questions or to discuss any aspect of the observatory archive in more detail.