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Statistical Metadata for Users: A Case Study on the Level of Metadata Provision on Statistical Agency Websites

Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management / Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, (P)1013-0799; (E)2586-2073
2007, v.24 no.2, pp.161-179
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2007.24.2.161

(2007). Statistical Metadata for Users: A Case Study on the Level of Metadata Provision on Statistical Agency Websites. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 24(2), 161-179, https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2007.24.2.161

Abstract

As increasingly diverse kinds of information materials are available on the Internet, it becomes a challenge to define an adequate level of metadata provision for each different type of material in the context of digital libraries. This study explores issues of metadata provision for a particular type of material, statistical tables. Statistical data always involves numbers and numeric values which should be interpreted with an understanding of underlying concepts and constructs. Because of the unique data characteristics, metadata in the statistical domain is essential not only for finding and discovering relevant data, but also for understanding and using the data found. However, in statistical metadata research, more emphasis has been put on the question of what metadata is necessary for processing the data and less on what metadata should be presented to users.In this study, a case study was conducted to gauge the status of metadata provision for statistical tables on the Internet. The websites of two federal statistical agencies in the United States were selected and a content analysis method was used for that purpose. The result showing insufficient and inconsistent provision of metadata demonstrate the need for more discussions on statistical metadata from the ordinary web users’ perspective.

keywords
statistical data, metadata, content analysis, case study, statistical data, metadata, content analysis, case study, 통계정보, 메타데이터, 내용분석법, 사례연구

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