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Metadata Quality Evaluation: Experience from the Open Language Archives Community

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Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization (ICADL 2004)

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We describe the motivation, design and implementation of an infrastructure to support metadata quality assessment within a specialised Open Archives Initiative (OAI) sub-domain, the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). While services for structural validation of metadata are widely used, there is little corresponding work regarding services which evaluate the semantic and syntactic content of metadata from a qualitative perspective. We posit that any measure of metadata quality benefits from both contextual and referential assessment – metadata on a per record and per collection basis is legitimately assessed against the baseline of broader community practice, as well as for compliance to any external standard. In this paper we describe the implementation of a metadata quality assessment scheme, and the corresponding interfaces to the evaluation tool.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia

    Baden Hughes

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  1. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China

    Zhaoneng Chen

  2. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  3. Shanghai Library, Shanghai, P.R. China

    Qihao Miao

  4. BASICS, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Yuxi Fu

  5. Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, USA

    Edward Fox

  6. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,  

    Ee-peng Lim

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Hughes, B. (2004). Metadata Quality Evaluation: Experience from the Open Language Archives Community. In: Chen, Z., Chen, H., Miao, Q., Fu, Y., Fox, E., Lim, Ep. (eds) Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization. ICADL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30544-6_34

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