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An Overview of Survey on Metadata Standards and Best Practices for E-Resources March 25, 2014 Bie-hwa Ma Chengzhi Wang. Acknowledgement & Announcement. Thank you for participating in the survey! Thank all of you for participating in the workshop!
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An Overview of Survey on Metadata Standards and Best Practices for E-Resources March 25, 2014 Bie-hwa Ma Chengzhi Wang
Acknowledgement & Announcement Thank you for participating in the survey! Thank all of you for participating in the workshop! Thank all CEAL members for supporting the Task Force! Thank all the CTP members and the CEAL ERMB Task Force members for organizing this workshop Electronic Resources: Librarians and Vendors Round Table 9:30-11:00 pm, Thursday, March 27, Liberty Ballroom C, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Jointly organized by CTP, CCM, CJM, CKM, and CPS, a dialog between East Asian librarians and vendors of electronic contents. Open to all CEAL members as well as vendors and electronic information providers
Survey Overview Outline Why the Survey? How the Survey Was Done? What Are the Survey Results? What to Do Next?
Survey Goal Environmental scan: survey as a systematic way to get empirical data Preliminary understanding of the level of awareness Identify the awareness gap between librarians and vendors, and how to bridge them Improve understanding, expand knowledge, enhance skills, and determine areas/topics to work on
Survey Preparation & Design Preparation, Planning General planning and preparation Google form as the tool Designing questionnaires Deciding the length and format Testing Questionnaire Design Vendor/Publisher Version and Library Version in English, carefully reviewed by metadata and non-metadata professionals in the U.S. Translated into CJK languages with terminologies verified by professionals in Asia Reviewing, discussing, deciding, and finalizing, in English and CJK languages
Survey Invitation Participation Invitation Inviting library professionals and support staff Focus on academic libraries Sent invitations through CEAL listserv and CALA (Chinese American Librarians Association) listserv in US Post it through the listservs of Library associations, consortia, and Facebook groups in Mainland china, Taiwan, Hon Kong, and Macau Inviting vendors/publishers Focus on providers of e-resources Sent English, CJK invitations to vendor/publisher sources and publisher associations via CCM, CJM and CKM
Survey Management & Analysis Coordination and Organization Arranging and rationalizing timeline, and making necessary changes Coordinating work of sub groups, including online form, e-mail texts and attached Word files, all in English and 4 other scripts Organizing responses, re-inputting e-mailed responses, and checking, validating, normalizing collected data Analyzing Data An overview of Preliminary Results: Library & Vendors With Focus on Library Survey; with Briefing on Vendors Survey
Use of Metadata in Knowledge Bases (KBs) by Link Resolution Services
Few CJK providers/publishers have interaction with link resolution services Challenging Level: Following CJK-related Issues in the KBs of Link Resolutions Services
Link resolution service providers' lacking expertise to manage CJK resources Challenging Level: Following CJK-related Issues in the KBs of Link Resolutions Services
Awareness of Established National & Int’l Standards for E-resources
Standards Vendors Follow in Supplying Metadata: Current & Expected
Unawareness of the standards Anticipated Challenging Issues When Promoting Metadata Standards to Vendors
Standards are too complicated to understand Anticipated Challenging Issues When Promoting Metadata Standards to Vendors
It is tough to communicate with CJK vendors/publishers in making changes Anticipated Challenging Issues When Promoting Metadata Standards to Vendors
Relationship with, & Frequency Updating Title Lists to, Link Resolution Services
Awareness of Established National and Int’l Standards for Electronic Resources
Awareness of E-Resources Standards & Best Practices: Library and Vendors Vendors/Publishers Library Staff
Compliance of Standards & Best Practices: Currently Follow & Interested in Following
Reasons Why not Complying with Some or All of the Standards and Best Practices