Personal-Name Metadata Accuracy in Indian Institutional Repositories: An Analysis of DC.Creator and DC.Contributor
Author(s): Husna Jabeen & Dr. N. S. Harinarayana
Abstract: Personal-name metadata is important for author identification, resource discovery, and retrieval in institutional repositories. This study examines the accuracy of personal-name metadata in the DC.creator and DC.contributor elements of 15 selected Indian institutional repositories representing academic institutions and research institutes. Considering name formatting, punctuation, spacing, capitalization, a total of 14,410 Dublin Core metadata records constituted the final analytical dataset....
Keywords - Personal-name metadata; Metadata accuracy; Institutional repositories; Dublin Core; DC.creator; DC.contributor; Metadata quality; India; Authority control
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.12.3.2026.2165
Cite This Article As: Jabeen, H. & Harinarayana, N. S. (2026) Personal-Name Metadata Accuracy in Indian Institutional Repositories: An Analysis of DC.Creator and DC.Contributor. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 12(3) 259-270 www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-2165 Page: 259-270 Publication Date: 09 September 2026