Week 9 August 9, 2012: Applying what we learned from the user survey to make concrete suggestions for how to improve the content of the DMPTool and continuing to push the marketing campaign New and Improved: The moment has finally arrived! Its time to take what I have learned from Continue reading New and Improved: Using the Survey to Improve the Tool
This week, I’ve spent most of the week working on the narrative and finalizing the survey questionnaire. Through the questionnaire, we’re really trying to get at the essence of what makes a metadata registry successful and what are the limitations, and the needs of the scientific community. The IRB has Continue reading Narrative, survey development, and analyzing of existing registries
It is essential that we compare our proposed methods against a true baseline (an existing, well known method). I have selected two methods from two papers (listed below), and is currently in the process of selecting the one to be implemented. Krestel, R., Fankhauser, P., & Nejdl, W. (2009). Latent Continue reading Week 9 Report
This week, I have been working on writing a paper which will be submitted to LinkedScience 2012 (LISC2012), co-located with 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2012) http://linkedscience.org/events/lisc2012/. The title of the paper is “ONEMercury: Towards Automatic Annotation of Environmental Science Metadata.” The content in the paper basically summarizes what I have done Continue reading Week 8 Report
Week 8 August 6, 2012 The last full 2 weeks are upon us! Time definitely flies when you are having fun…a.k.a. working on improving a research tool! I spent the morning going over the comments from the user survey. I would like to share some of the notable comments. Again, Continue reading User Survey Responses and Next Steps
After many weeks of work, we are ready to start writing a journal article describing the results of the ESA Data Error categorization, and making recommendations based on the results. There are a few more refinements that I need to make, but these are mostly cosmetic. Many researchers tend to Continue reading Week 10 – Writing
Week 8 August 2, 2012: Back in LA for remainder of the internship, distributing marketing campaign materials, results for user test slowly trickling in Hello All, Well, I am back in Los Angeles! So please note that I will be on west coast time, so the updates will mostly likely Continue reading Distributing the Marketing Emails/Flyers
After many refinements to both the data repository manager survey and the email request for respondents, I made the survey active and sent email requests this past Saturday, July 21. By Friday morning, we had six responses. Bill Michener and Bob Cook sent out a reminder email later that day, Continue reading Week 9 – Data Manager Survey is active
Week 7 July 27, 2012: Collecting components of the marketing campaign, executing the campaign, starting to see responses from the survey…. Happy Friday Everyone, Thanks again everyone for your comments, suggestions, and patience while I have been working on the flyers and emails for the marketing campaign. I feel like Continue reading Executing the Marketing Campaign and Starting to Get Survey Responses!
This week, I’ve been looking at metadata registries, coming with up a solid list of registries to evaluate and thinking about the best ways to evaluate them. While there is plenty of literature that evaluates metadata quality, so far, in the literature I have not seen any studies that specifically Continue reading Evaluation of Metadata Registires