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There are occasions when questions include punctuation or signs which are not entered into Archivist. For example, in older questionnaires it not unusual to find hyphens where there is a word break due to formatting. In these cases we ignore the hyphen and exclude it from Archivist (Example 9).12). Additionally, when a bullet point is used followed by text, the bullet point is not entered into Archivist, simply enter the text that comes after it.
Example 12 Questionnaire: NSHD School Doctor 1961
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Archivist layout (nshd_61_sd):
ASCII characters
There are some characters used in questionnaires which when being entered into Archivist, require a specific code known as ASCII characters. For example, the pound sign '£' needs to be entered as £. Another example of this is when entering the degree symbol for which the ASCII code is °. The only codes needed for Archivist entry are those that are over 127, some of which are provided below:
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Some symbols may display as ASCII characters in Archivist - a common example is a single quote mark displaying as "'". The ASCII characters do not need to be changed to the corresponding symbol in Archivist, as they will appear in CLOSER Discovery as the correct symbol.
Contents page
Sometimes a larger questionnaire may contain a contents page (see Example 10 13 below). However, since we do not document page numbers, and the headings will be included (most likely as sequences) elsewhere in the questionnaire, there is no benefit of including these in the metadata, therefore they can be excluded from the documentation.
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Sometimes there may be examples at the beginning of a questionnaire which show how to complete a questionnaire (see example 11 14 below). However, we do not include these examples here is no benefit of including these in the metadata without the images (which we cannot add), therefore they can be excluded from the documentation.If the examples make sense without the image then the text can be added.
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