1. Design and Planning of Digital Projects
Survey responses to the question: What are the major concerns you have in your project that relate to metadata? -- 2.1 Major Concerns—For Designing and Planning of Digital Projects
Note: This question intended to form a general picture of the major concerns when designing and planning a digital library as related to metadata.
| Concern | Response % | Response # |
|---|---|---|
| To understand possible workflows | 58.30% | 189 |
| To consider reusing existing cataloging records by integrating them or transforming them to other formats, e.g. MARC to DC, a local format to EAD, etc., or any other variation in the new project | 58.30% | 189 |
| To plan how search functions can be supported by metadata information | 56.80% | 184 |
| To explore how to include various types of resources (print, web pages, images, etc) in one project | 50.60% | 164 |
| To learn how to measure and control metadata quality | 49.40% | 160 |
| To decide upon levels of description (e.g. item level, collection level) | 47.80 | 155 |
| To find if any metadata exist already in the objects themselves that could be extracted automatically and what tools are available for this | 43.50% | 141 |
| To understand types of metadata (e.g. descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, rights metadata) | 43.50% | 141 |
| To see examples from similar projects | 41.00% | 133 |
| To plan how metadata records will be linked with authority records | 39.80% | 129 |
| To plan how the metadata describing a physical object will be associated with the metadata for its digital version | 38.60% | 125 |
| To understand the mechanisms of harvesting protocols | 36.70% | 119 |
| To understand the value of controlled vocabularies | 32.70% | 106 |
| To understand and adopt an abstract model (e.g. Dublin Core Abstract Model, FRBR conceptual model, CCO entity-relationship model) | 31.50% | 102 |