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Quality assurance for digital learning object repositories: issues for the metadata creation process [PDF]
Research in Learning Technology, 2004 Metadata enables users to find the resources they require, therefore it is an important component of any digital learning object repository. Much work has already been done within the learning technology community to assure metadata quality, focused on ...
Sarah Currier +3 more
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Evaluating the metadata quality of the IPL [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009 AbstractMetadata quality is directly related to the quality of services provided by digital libraries. The paper presents results from evaluating the metadata quality of the IPL (www.ipl.org). Two evaluation methods were used: a preliminary automatic evaluation and a human involved evaluation using a survey.
Shanshan Ma +3 more
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, 2022 In the last 15 years different aspects of metadata quality have been investigated. Researchers measured the established metrics on a variety of metadata collections. One common aspect of the majority of these research projects is that the tools they produce as a necessary side effect were not intended to be reused in other projects.
Király, Péter +1 more
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Metadata Quality in Institutional Repositories May be Improved by Addressing Staffing Issues
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2016 A Review of: Moulaison Sandy, H., & Dykas, F. (2016). High-quality metadata and repository staffing: Perceptions of United States–based OpenDOAR participants. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 54(2), 101-116.
Elizabeth Margaret Stovold
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Metadata Schema for Managing Digital Data and Images of Thai Human Skulls
Data, 2021 This research was aimed at developing metadata that meets international standards for the purpose of managing digital data and images of Thai human skulls for medical studies.
Satapon Yosakonkun +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Metadata plays an essential role in the long‐term preservation, reuse, and interoperability of data. Nevertheless, creating useful metadata can be sufficiently difficult and weakly enough incentivized that many datasets may be accompanied by little or no
Rainer M. Krug, Owen L. Petchey
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Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología, 2017 Europeana is a European project aimed to become the modern “Alexandria Digital Library”, as it targets providing access to thousands of resources of European cultural heritage, contributed by more than fifteen hundred institutions such as museums ...
Paulo Alonso Gaona-García +2 more
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GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, 2019 High data quality is fundamental for valid inferences in health research. Metadata, i.e. “data that describe other data”, are essential to implement data quality assessments but more guidance on which metadata to use is needed.
Richter, Adrian +7 more
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021 Background The variety of medical documentation often leads to incompatible data elements that impede data integration between institutions. A common approach to standardize and distribute metadata definitions are ISO/IEC 11179 norm-compliant metadata ...
Stefan Hegselmann +13 more
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Metadata quality : implications for library and information science professionals [PDF]
, 2005 Purpose - In contrast with recent studies noting the necessity of library and information science (LIS) skills in digital library and repository projects, this study aims to examine the impact of metadata quality requirements on how LIS professionals ...
Robertson, R. John
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