. Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi; . Mahtab Ramezan-Shirazi; . Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi; . Rasool Nouri
Volume 4, Issue 1 , February 2014, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
Introduction: Recent progress in providing innovative solutions in the organization of electronicresources and research in this area shows a global trend in the use of new strategies ...
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Introduction: Recent progress in providing innovative solutions in the organization of electronicresources and research in this area shows a global trend in the use of new strategies suchas metadata to facilitate description, place for, organization and retrieval of resources in theweb environment. In this context, library metadata standards have a special place; therefore,the purpose of the present study has been a comparative study on the Central Libraries’Websites of Iran State Universities for Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) and DublinCore metadata elements usage in 2011. Materials and Methods: The method of this studyis applied-descriptive and data collection tool is the check lists created by the researchers.Statistical community includes 98 websites of the Iranian State Universities of the Ministry ofHealth and Medical Education and Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and methodof sampling is the census. Information was collected through observation and direct visits towebsites and data analysis was prepared by Microsoft Excel software, 2011. Results: Theresults of this study indicate that none of the websites use Dublin Core (DC) metadata andthat only a few of them have used overlaps elements between HTML meta tags and DublinCore (DC) elements. The percentage of overlaps of DC elements centralization in the Ministry ofHealth were 56% for both description and keywords and, in the Ministry of Science, were 45%for the keywords and 39% for the description. But, HTML meta tags have moderate presencein both Ministries, as the most-used elements were keywords and description (56%) and theleast-used elements were date and formatter (0%). Conclusion: It was observed that theMinistry of Health and Ministry of Science follows the same path for using Dublin Core standardon their websites in the future. Because Central Library Websites are an example of scientificweb pages, special attention in designing them can help the researchers to achieve fasterand more accurate information resources. Therefore, the influence of librarians’ ideas on theawareness of web designers and developerswill be important for using metadata elementsas general, and specifically for applying suchstandards.
