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Metadata Implementation And Data Discoverability: A Survey On University Libraries' Dataverse Portals, Tzu-Heng Chiu, Hsin-Liang (Oliver) Chen, Ellen Cline
Metadata Implementation And Data Discoverability: A Survey On University Libraries' Dataverse Portals, Tzu-Heng Chiu, Hsin-Liang (Oliver) Chen, Ellen Cline
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The purpose of this practical case study is to examine the development of Dataverse, a global research data management consortium. This paper is the second in a project focusing on data discoverability and current metadata implementation on the Dataverse portals established by 27 university libraries worldwide. Five research questions were proposed to identify the most popular metadata standards and elements, search interface options, and result display formats by those portals. The data were collected from 27 university libraries worldwide between December 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021. According to the results of the descriptive analyses, the most popular metadata elements …