[quote="nikospalavitsinis"] Dear colleagues, Thank you for the first round of answers to our general topic posed here! Adressing your interest on this, allow me to provide some additional questions on this topic, that aim to provide different directions for our discussions. To facilitate the discussion, we would like to ask you to start replying by indicating the question number addressed (i.e. Q1), so that our colleagues that read you answers can easily identify the question you refer to. It's not obligatory to answer all of these, so feel free to choose the ones you want to answer. It would be nice, to answer with separate "posts" on each question. In this way, we will be able to follow up on your questions more easily. 1. Which metadata standard are you using in your institutional/project repository? 2. How many and which metadata elements do you require for a resource to be uploaded in the repository? 3. How do you measure quality of the metadata within your repository? Do you have any mechanisms (automated or not) in place, to ensure the completeness, correctness, etc. of metadata? It is too early for us to answer this question. But I can state that there will be no automated mechanism to check metadata. 4. As a content creator, do you find it easy to provide metadata for the resources you create? What are your experiences so far? No. But our experience is limited. 5. Would you prefer a repository with hundreds of thousands of resources with the minimum metadata attached to them (title, description and keywords) or a repository with significantly less resources, described with a comprehensive set of metadata elements (covering educational aspects, format requirements, classification aspects, etc.)? Justify you choice. It seems to me that I would prefer the first option. I would rely at first on the authors who I already know. With kind regards, Nikos Palavitsinis [/quote]