2017/05/23 by José Federico Medrano, Medrano, J. Federico
Computer Science · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #E-Learning and Knowledge Management #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Architecture and Usability
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1705.08275
openalex publication_date 2017/05/23 · openalex created_date 2019/07/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Numerous institutions and organizations need not only to preserve the\nmaterial and publications they produce, but also have as their task (although\nit would be desirable it was an obligation) to publish, disseminate and make\npublicly available all the results of the research and any other\nscientific/academic material. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the\nintroduction of Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting\n(OAI-PMH), make this task much easier. The main objective of this work is to\nmake a comparative and qualitative study of the data -metadata specifically-\ncontained in the whole set of Argentine repositories listed in the ROAR portal,\nfocusing on the functional perspective of the quality of this metadata. Another\nobjective is to offer an overview of the status of these repositories, in an\nattempt to detect common failures and errors institutions incur when storing\nthe metadata of the resources contained in these repositories, and thus be able\nto suggest measures to be able to improve the load and further retrieval\nprocesses. It was found that the eight most used Dublin Core fields are:\nidentifier, type, title, date, subject, creator, language and description. Not\nall repositories fill all the fields, and the lack of normalization, or the\nexcessive use of fields like language, type, format and subject is somewhat\nstriking, and in some cases even alarming\n