DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4f4qrfj8s
title: Data from: An international, multi-stakeholder survey about metadata awareness, knowledge, and use in scholarly communications

description: The Metadata 2020 initiative is an ongoing effort to bring various
 scholarly communications stakeholder groups together to promote principles
 and standards of practice to improve the quality of metadata. To
 understand the perspectives and practices of the main stakeholder groups
 (librarians, publishers, researchers and repository managers) regarding
 metadata, the Metadata 2020 Researcher Communications Project Group
 conducted a survey in the summer of 2019. The survey content was generated
 by representatives from the stakeholder groups who are active in this
 Metadata 2020 project. This dataset contains the excel spreadsheet with
 all of the raw, unanalyzed responses of the survey that was distributed,
 following IRB approval, to a broad number of communities. The questions
 were answered by participants self-identifying as researchers, publishers,
 librarians, and repository managers. The purpose of these questions was to
 assess how metadata is understood by stakeholders in the scholarly
 communications life cycle. To the designers’ best knowledge, no other
 survey had previously attempted to analyze knowledge about, and
 perceptions of metadata associated with publication. The survey was
 conceived as a primary output by the Metadata 2020 Researcher
 Communications Project and the survey instrument was developed with the
 assistance of stakeholder groups active in Metadata 2020. Complete
 responses are included among the four stakeholder groups: librarians,
 researchers, repository managers, and publishers. Each stakeholder group
 is represented with its own tab. In addition, one tab contains all of the
 responses, another the demographics for the survey. The responses in these
 tabs may include incomplete responses. Two other tabs contain comparisons
 of how each stakeholder group has self-prioritized metadata fields and
 metadata schema. Links to survey questions and analyzed data can be found
 in the supplemental materials.
description: The survey was released for public participation on June 5, 2019
 and closed Monday, July 15, 2019. Participants were notified via direct
 emails of personal contacts, social media (Twitter, Facebook), blogs,
 listservs, and online newsletters (Referrer). A total of 222 submitted
 responses were received from 23 countries. Responses were evaluated for
 completeness, and any (n=11) that were mostly blank responses were not
 further analyzed. The analyzed set in total was 211 respondents.
 Sixty-four respondents provided their names and contact information for
 follow-up questions as needed (to clarify free responses). No respondents
 were contacted for clarification.  Complete responses
 among the four stakeholder groups: librarians, researchers, repository
 managers, and publishers. Since the question sets were specific to the
 target stakeholder group, each group’s data is summarized separately.
 Where possible and with care to avoid the risk of losing meaning, free
 responses were coded into categories to aid in identification of themes or
 classes of responses. 
description: This document contains the excel spreadsheet with all of the raw,
 unanalyzed responses to the Metadata 2020 Survey. Complete responses are
 included among the four stakeholder groups: librarians, researchers,
 repository managers and publishers. Each stakeholder group is represented
 with its own tab. In addition, one tab contains all of the responses,
 another the demographics for the survey. The responses in these tabs may
 include incomplete responses. Two other tabs contain comparisons of how
 each stakeholder group has self-prioritized metadata fields and metadata
 schema. Supplemental Materials
 Survey Questions The survey tool was
 designed to gain better insights about the familiarity and usage of
 metadata by several scholarly communications stakeholders. the survey was
 reviewed by the UAB Office of the IRB. This supplemental document contains
 the questions that were asked. Metadata 2020,
 Kaiser, Kathryn, Urberg, Michelle, Johnsson, Maria, Kemp, Jennifer,
 Meadows, Alice, & Paglione, Laura. (2021). Metadata 2020 Metadata
 Usage Survey Questions (Version 0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4666192 Summary Results A summary document of methods and results serves as a companion to this dataset. It represents an analyzed data set of the raw data collected for the Metadata 2020 survey. The purpose of the data summary is to draw attention to the unique responses of each stakeholder group.  Kaiser, Kathryn, Urberg, Michelle, Johnsson, Maria, Kemp, Jennifer, Meadows, Alice, & Paglione, Laura. (2021). Metadata 2020 Metadata Usage Survey Methods and Results Summary (Version 0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4666086