Preliminary Study Examining Experts and Novices Using Dublin Core Metadata to Describe Scientific Laboratory Data

摘要

Large amounts of data will be tagged using the metadata/markup generating/editing tool. Feedback from experts will enable refinements to the prototype tool. The project will compare author-generated metadata describing materials microstructures by experts and novices. The essential questions to be examined are: 1.) How effective is DC for general discovery and retrieval of laboratory data, and 2.) How well do authors with domain knowledge and no cataloguing training, provide initial description of materials property information.