Survey for ranking preferences in search for biological datasets

We conducted a survey from November 2018 to March 2019 in Germany among 26 scholars with expertise in biodiversity research to determine preferences in dataset search.
In particular, we wanted to explore suitable semantic extensions in the search result and possible additional recommendations on related topics that scholars support in retrieving relevant datasets.

The scholars were faced with four different search scenarios and pre-defined answer options. They gave their ratings on a 5-point-Likert scale.
The scenarios addressed different important topics in biodiversity research, e.g., a search for organisms, materials, processes and data parameters.

This folder contains the original survey results as well as the analysis per topic (category).