Hi there,
I agree with both Jenny and Suzanne. I would wait until the follow up
interviews to raise the issue of application profiles. If we ask to many
"technical" questions in the initial questionnaire it may discourage less
technically confident colleagues from participating in the survey.
Bye
Lorna
Suzanne Hardy wrote:
> I think Jenny's suggestion of using this question in a follow up
> interview would be preferable.
>
> I think that questions about application profiles at the questionnaire
> stage would put people off filling it in.
>
> With very best wishes
>
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> Suzanne Hardy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jenny Slater
> Sent: 14 January 2002 13:04
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> Subject: Application profiles
>
> Hello,
>
> Phil Barker wrote:
>
> >It wouldn't surprise me if Jenny wanted a question about application
> profiles...
>
> I would be interested to find out about any metadata implementations
> that have application profiles, and the question could easily fit into
> the survey just after the question "Are you using any extensions to IMS
> MD?".
>
> However, I was hoping to ask this sort of question in the follow up
> interview that was proposed, since I think it might be best to select
> those who are already using metadata to respond to this question. We
> need to keep the survey questionnaire fairly short to encourage people
> to respond, and a question about application profiles might also imply
> that the survey is targetted at those already using metadata.
>
> What do others think? Should we ask about application profiles in the
> survey questionnaire?
>
> Jenny
>
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