[DDI-users] Survey on metadata management in the educational and social sciences

[Barkow, Ingo]

Dear colleagues,

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Some of you might know me from IASSIST, EDDI or NADDI conferences where I normally represent the research data centre of larger German research institute as a data manager, but today I would like to contact you in another role outside of my normal organization.

I would like to invite you to participate in a web survey about metadata management in the social and educational sciences and - if possible - promote it in your network. In this study the expectations of researchers who design surveys are compared with the ones of researchers who do secondary analyses of published datasets. The results will be used to improve current metadata standards for both disciplines and we want also to use the findings later as requirements for the further development of open source software products.

Target groups of the survey are researchers in the field of social sciences and educational sciences, personnel at data collection or market research organizations, software developers of computer-based questionnaire or assessment software and researchers working at research data centres or data archives.

This research is part of my PhD dissertation at the University of Szeged where I currently reside for a research semester and I would personally appreciate it very much if people from the DDI community take their time to participate in the survey. The average time for filling in the questionnaire is about 15-20 min. The number of questions you will be asked varies between 30-40 questions depending on your answers. You can pause the questionnaire and continue answering it at a later period.

The participation in this study is completely voluntarily and your answers will be anonymized.

Here is the link to the web survey:

http://dmsurvey.limequery.org/index.php/346646

The survey is available until December 19th, 2014. For any questions regarding the survey please contact me at ingo.barkow at googlemail.com<mailto:ingo.barkow at googlemail.com>

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,
Ingo

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Ingo Barkow, M.A., M.Sc.
Doctoral School for the Educational Sciences
University of Szeged, Hungary
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