Interviews with recording scheme organisations
All of the national recording schemes found through the review
were contacted by email, and six agreed to participate in the inter-
views.
In
order
to
gather
data
from
a
cross
section
of
local
schemes,
four of these which included email addresses in the website were
contacted and agreed to take part, representing a cross-section of
low, mid and high expertise and commitment levels. Interviews
took
place
between
November
2009
and
February
2011.
We
con-
ducted semi-structured telephone and face-to-face interviews with
representatives of the organisation who had a working knowledge
of
the
details
of
the
recording
scheme.
Interview
questions
were
structured
around
three
themes.
Theme
1
(objectives
for
running
the
scheme)
addressed
the
following
topics:
(1)
the
main
objec-
tive(s)
for
running
the
specific
recording
scheme;
(2)
whether
the
objectives had changed over time; and, (3) the perceived bene-
fits
(and
drawbacks)
to
the
organisation
of
involving
the
public
in the scheme. Theme 2 (types of participant) focused on: (1) the