Dear DC-Registry subscribers,
My name is Panayiota Polydoratou and I am a PhD student at City University
in London, UK. My research is about the use and functionality of metadata
registry systems and I am writing to invite you to participate in my survey.
By metadata registry systems I am referring to "Formal systems that provide
authoritative information about the semantics and structure of data
elements. Each element will include the definition of the element, the
qualifiers associated with it, mappings to multilingual versions and
elements in other schema". Dublin Core Metadata Glossary. Available at
http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/glossary.shtml
Some examples are the Dublin Core registry
(http://dublincore.org/dcregistry/),
the Knoledgebase (http://www.aihw.gov.au/knowledgebase/index.html), the
System
or Registries (http://www.epa.gov/sor)
Your contribution is essential to my research and I will be really
grateful if you could please consider the following questions and answer
them to your convenience, hopefully it will not take too much of your
time. I would appreciate your response by the end of this week (24th of
October). If you require more time please let me know; your reply is of most
importance to my research. All responses will be treated anonymously.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have regarding this
survey
(please see contact details at the end of this email). I will be happy to
provide further clarification to any questions raised.
Thank you very much in advance for your time and your contribution.
Part 1 -
- Please provide us with a brief description of your job
responsibilities and the features/services (any type of information in
general) that you are interested in a registry. Also, please let us know
which is the registry (or registries) that you most frequently use.
Part 2
- Which are the reasons that you are using the registry? Does the
registry meet your work needs? Are there any barriers that prevent you
from using the registry services? Are there any ways in which it could
better help your work?
- Which are the services that you mostly use in a registry? (e.g.,
browse or search options looking for definitions of elements,
implementation guides, discussion lists/forums, etc)? How have you applied
the information retrieved? What purpose does it serve? Do you use the
registry because your organisation has a requirement for it?
- Please give us an example of a typical search in the registry.
Please outline your strategy or strategies (if different for different
searches) and reasoning behind them.
Part 3
- Do you agree with the following statement? "Metadata registries
provide the effective solution to the interoperability problem on the web"
- Please feel free to provide with any further comments/suggestions
regarding metadata registry systems.
Thank you
Panayiota
Panayiota Polydoratou
City University
Dept. of Information Science
Northampton Square
EC1V OHB
London
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