<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-ad930c79-7fff-5c1a-3e0b-f09f956aefdf" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">You are invited to participate in a survey to help better understand metadata knowledge, attitudes, and usage in scholarly communications. The survey is being carried out by the </span><a href="http://www.metadata2020.org" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Metadata 2020</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> project, and seeks input from all key stakeholder groups -- researchers, publishers, librarians, and repository managers. Metadata 2020 is a collaboration that advocates richer, connected, and reusable, open metadata for all research outputs, for the benefit of everyone. Projects, including this survey and its subsequent analysis, are designed and conducted by </span><a href="http://www.metadata2020.org/projects/researcher-communications/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">volunteer community contributors</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span></div><br class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This voluntary survey will take about 15 minutes of time, and is open to those 18 years old or over (no compensation for participants). Please participate </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">by June 28 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">at this link: </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcf69190-7fff-76ca-a1ba-d38f073b55f7" class=""><a href="https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4729698/Metadata2020-survey-email" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4729698/Metadata2020-survey-email</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></span><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Note that the survey starts by asking your primary role. Many of you on this list act in multiple roles so you may want to fill out the survey more than once, focusing on your different experiences.</span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Finally, we are particularly interested in getting responses from researchers. If you have a distribution list of researchers that you work with and would be willing to send the survey link to them, we would greatly appreciate it.</span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">On behalf of the Metadata 2020 project,</span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><div class="">T Scott Plutchak</div><div class="">Librarian</div><div class="">Epistemologist</div><div class="">Birmingham, Alabama</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:splutchak@gmail.com" class="">splutchak@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4712-5233" class="">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4712-5233</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://tscott.typepad.com" class="">http://tscott.typepad.com</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>