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A significant amount of digital repository research and development activity is taking place worldwide. The quality of the metadata is considered really important for the main functionalities of a digital reporitory. In this paper we carry out a priliminary analysis of tools that can be used for the valid assessment of metadata records in a repository. More specifically, three different tools are studied and used to assess various quality metrics of metadata records. Then, an example quality assessment is presented for specific case study: the ProdInra open access repository. Finally, some conclusions are made and directions for the future work are identified.
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Tsiflidou, E., Manouselis, N. (2013). Tools and Techniques for Assessing Metadata Quality. In: Garoufallou, E., Greenberg, J. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 390. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9_11
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