/QuestionsMetadataBiodiv

repository for a question corpus for the biodiversity domain, scripts for analyzing metadata in data repositories

Primary LanguagePythonGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0LGPL-3.0

Question Corpus for Biodiversity and Metadata Analysis

DOI

This repository contains all source code and supplementary material for our publication "Dataset search in biodiversity research: Do metadata in data repositories reflect scholarly information needs?". We provide a question corpus for the biodiversity domain together with scripts to set up a survey to evaluate main search interests with users and to analyze the surveys results. We also provide scripts and results to analyze metadata from selected data repositories.

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License

All source code files are distributed under the terms of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

Citation

For reusing data (e.g., question corpus, data repositoriy analysis) please use the following DOIs:

Questions: https://doi.org/10.25829/idiv.1864-15-2987

Data-Repositories: https://doi.org/10.25829/idiv.1881-12-3202

When reusing the python scripts or the Limesurvey templates please cite the publication.

Dataset search in biodiversity research: Do metadata in data repositories reflect scholarly information needs? Löffler F, Wesp V, König-Ries B, Klan F (2021) Dataset search in biodiversity research: Do metadata in data repositories reflect scholarly information needs?. PLOS ONE 16(3): e0246099. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246099