Enriching Metadata Contents in Repositories: A case study in Institution Repositories of HIOA(ODA)
Master thesis
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This thesis aims to explore the current state of metadata practices in Institution Repositories
of HiOA in terms of the awareness of Institution Repositories, metadata and metadata types,
the availability of guidelines, the chief source of information on enriching contents, the
metadata scheme used, and the opinions of staff on the problems and factors regarding
enriching metadata contents for digital collection in ODA, the institutional repository of
HiOA. The study is limited to ODA as a case study.
A descriptive survey is used as the research method. Data was collected by using an online
questionnaire. A survey link was distributed to informants who play different roles in the
ODA projects. The research is based on qualitative methodology because it focuses on
investigating the point of views from Hioa librarians, outside experts and authors as well as to
analyzing the semantic of metadata elements being used in current digital publication at Hioa
database. A total of 17 returned questionnaires were analyzed.
The presented case study reports an activity focuses on the study of a metadata element which
generated an benefit that can be useful for different purposes such as research, learning, easy
retrieval from IR. It is conceived as an open access initiative and supported by the
institutional repository on which we rely in order to ensure the long-term preservation, the
visibility and the interoperability of the solution.
In managing the metadata and making it richer different problems and challenges have been
faced and investigated by these memory institutions and further research should be carried out
to study other aspects of metadata implementation. The findings in the thesis could be a useful
reference for the ODA projects.
Beskrivelse
Joint Master Degree in Digital Library Learning (DILL)