[Esip-preserve] Adding learning resource metadata to Data Management training modules

Wed Jan 22 16:48:14 EST 2014

Bruce, Erin:

In the past, we've talked about asking people to complete a survey on a
volunteer basis after they'd used any of the modules as part of the proposal
we submitted to the Sloan Foundation & ICPSR, but we were thinking of a more
extensive survey, citing the following sites as sources / possible
collaborative partners:    

CLEAN Review Process: http://cleanet.org/clean/about/review.html 

5 Usability and Assessment Working Group:
http://www.dataone.org/working_groups/usability-and-assessment
<http://www.dataone.org/working_groups/usability-and-assessment>  

Our idea at that point was to" assess the usability and review the
educational effectiveness of the inventoried DMT resources".  Sounds like
Bruce is thinking more about demographics although I'm curious about the
question related to mathematical skills.  If we were to do a quick survey
and make it available (which I would support, BTW, and also work on), I
think it would be important to include questions about usability and
effectiveness, such as:

Did you find this module useful?  (Yes / No) answer

Why or why not?  (Room for narrative response)

Regarding Bruce's question 1 , I would add a category for Professional
education (lawyers and doctors may need to manage data as well), and perhaps
Vocational (?)

And to Bruce's question 3, Geometry would seem to be important, particularly
for Geographic and GIS work.

Haven't looked at your reports yet, Erin, will do so and response to your
note.

Nancy

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Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich

Information Analyst/Principal

nhoebel at kmotifs.com

San Mateo, CA  94401

(v) 650-302-4493

(f) 650-745-3333

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Barkstrom
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To: Erin Robinson
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Subject: Re: [Esip-preserve] Adding learning resource metadata to Data
Management training modules

I think that would be helpful.  I was thinking the same thing, but you beat
me to the punch.
The survey could have just three questions:

1.  What is your level of education:

   a.  K-12

   b.  College Degree

   c.  Graduate Degree (MS or PhD)

   d.  Postgraduate

2.  In which fields of Earth science or library science do you have
experience (check all relevant fields)

   a.  Geology

   b.  Biology

   c.  Atmospheric Science

   d.  Oceanography

   e.  Cryospheric Phenomena

   f.   Land Processes

   g.  Solid Earth

   h.   Library science

   i.   Computer Science or Information Technology

3.  What level of mathematical skills do you have (choose highest level or
check all that apply)

   a.  None beyond simple addition and subtraction

   b.  Algebra

   c.  Calculus

   d.  Classical higher math (differential equations and related fields)

   e.  Discrete math (trees, graphs, database theory)

To avoid PII pleasantries, it's probably best to make this kind of survey
one that's voluntary.

That may introduce sampling biases, but the results would probably help us
find out if the
audience is mainly folks running data centers or people who use them.

Finally, this is a list put together quickly.  It should probably be kicked
around for a bit

(like maybe a week).  However, if we're going to do it, let's get on with it
instead of sitting
around wordsmithing the idea to the point of inaction.  If we get a
reasonable number of

responses, we can figure out later how to revise the survey to make the
responses more
informative.

Bruce B.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Erin Robinson <erinrobinson at esipfed.org>
wrote:

>From analytics we can't get that sort of info. We could include a link to a
survey and let people self-report? 

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>
wrote:

Is there any way to get some notion of the background for

these users?  Things like ed level, familiarity with science,
etc.

Bruce B.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Erin Robinson <erinrobinson at esipfed.org>
wrote:

Hi Nancy,  - 

Thanks a ton for taking a crack at this so far! Attached are a few views of
the analytics we have for the page you worked on. 

(1) shows the source of traffic. Some of the traffic is coming from search,
but for some reason the search terms aren't available. 

(2) Shows the landing page 

(3) shows navigation where people entered from and exited. 

The other thing that will help drive traffic is sharing these links through
social media channels. We have a google+ page
<http://google.com/+EsipfedOrg>  that I've done nothing with, but have heard
that of the channels it's crawled most frequently. We also have about 475
followers on twitter (@esipfed) and 100 followers (as of this morning!) on
Facebook page
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Federation-of-Earth-Science-Information-Part
ners-ESIP/150015055044779> , so we could test those channels too. Perhaps
with this node we experiment, with each of these over the next few weeks?
Open to ideas here. 

Looking forward to getting more visibility and feedback on this work.

Erin 

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Nancy Hoebelheinrich <nhoebel at kmotifs.com>
wrote:

Hello, all:

As I've mentioned in Data Stewardship meetings before, I've been working
with Erin to add some other metadata terms to the Drupal template for
Educational Modules content type on the ESIP Commons in which the Data
Management training modules have been added that members of the Data
Stewardship Committee created.  These terms are either additional terms that
are part of Schema.org's CreativeWork properties or part of the Learning
Resource Metadata Initiative's (LRMI:  http://www.lrmi.net/ ) extension that
were approved and added in mid-2013.  The addition of metadata to these
terms should increase the rate at which the DMT modules are accessed and
hopefully used by Google, Yahoo & Yandex searchers.  

Question 1:   I am seeking feedback on these additions.  Note:  I am
planning to add the metadata to the 32 modules that we currently have.

To view the BEFORE and AFTER, please compare the current landing page for
module 735 on the ESIP Commons at:  http://commons.esipfed.org/node/735 and
the extracted structured data results from Google's Richsnippets Structured
Data Testing Tool (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ) for
this node found in the attached PDF on page 1  (BEFORE);  and 

the landing page for module 728 at:  http://commons.esipfed.org/node/728 and
the extracted structured data results on pages 2 & 3 .  [Note:  I've
excerpted the results from the Google tools for the sake of brevity].  

Question 2:  I'm also going to check into the feasibility of doing a BEFORE
and AFTER assessment of a landing page / module or two in terms of Google
Analytics.  If anyone has experience with doing this, or suggestions for
metrics, I'd be happy to hear them.  I'd also welcome anyone who wants to
work with me on this task.  Thanks!

Nancy

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Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich

Information Analyst/Principal

nhoebel at kmotifs.com

San Mateo, CA  94401

(v) 650-302-4493

(f) 650-745-3333

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