Data from: An international, multi-stakeholder survey about metadata awareness, knowledge, and use in scholarly communications

The Metadata 2020 initiative is an ongoing effort to bring various
scholarly communications stakeholder groups together to promote principles
and standards of practice to improve the quality of metadata. To
understand the perspectives and practices of the main stakeholder groups
(librarians, publishers, researchers and repository managers) regarding
metadata, the Metadata 2020 Researcher Communications Project Group
conducted a survey in the summer of 2019. The survey content was generated
by representatives from the stakeholder groups who are active in this
Metadata 2020 project. This dataset contains the excel spreadsheet with
all of the raw, unanalyzed responses of the survey that was distributed,
following IRB approval, to a broad number of communities. The questions
were answered by participants self-identifying as researchers, publishers,
librarians, and repository managers. The purpose of these questions was to
assess how metadata is understood by stakeholders in the scholarly
communications life cycle. To the designers’ best knowledge, no other
survey had previously attempted to analyze knowledge about, and
perceptions of metadata associated with publication. The survey was
conceived as a primary output by the Metadata 2020 Researcher
Communications Project and the survey instrument was developed with the
assistance of stakeholder groups active in Metadata 2020. Complete
responses are included among the four stakeholder groups: librarians,
researchers, repository managers, and publishers. Each stakeholder group
is represented with its own tab. In addition, one tab contains all of the
responses, another the demographics for the survey. The responses in these
tabs may include incomplete responses. Two other tabs contain comparisons
of how each stakeholder group has self-prioritized metadata fields and
metadata schema. Links to survey questions and analyzed data can be found
in the supplemental materials.