QA Focus Briefing Documents

Background

Over 100 QA Focus Briefing Documents are available. The documents provide brief, focussed advice in the following areas:

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The Briefing Documents

Quality Assurance

Summary of the QA Focus Methodology, (briefing 30)
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Top 10 Quality Assurance Tips, (briefing 37)
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Implementing Your Own QA, (briefing 58)
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Standards

What Are Open Standards?, (briefing 11)
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Matrix for Selection of Standards, (briefing 31)
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Open Standards For JISC Development Programmes, (briefing 96)
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Digitisation

Image QA in the Digitisation Workflow, (briefing 09)
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QA Procedures For The Design Of CAD Data Models, (briefing 18)
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Documenting Digitisation Workflow, (briefing 20)
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QA For Geographic Information Systems, (briefing 21)
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Choosing A Suitable Digital Rights Solution, (briefing 22)
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Recording Digital Sound, (briefing 23)
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Handling International Text, (briefing 24)
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Choosing A Suitable Digital Video Format, (briefing 25)
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Quality Control in the Capture Workflow, (briefing 27)
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Choosing An Appropriate Raster Image Format, (briefing 28)
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Vector Images for the Internet, (briefing 29)
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Transcribing Documents, (briefing 47)
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Documenting Digitisation Workflow, (briefing 62)
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Audio For Low-Bandwidth Environments, (briefing 65)
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Improving The Quality Of Digitised Images, (briefing 66)
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Implementing and Improving Structural Markup, (briefing 67)
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Techniques To Assist The Location And Retrieval Of Local Images, (briefing 68)
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QA Techniques For The Storage Of Image Metadata, (briefing 71)
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Improving The Quality Of Digitised Images, (briefing 74)
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Digitisation Of Still Images Using A Flatbed Scanner, (briefing 75)
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Choosing A Suitable Digital Watermark, (briefing 76)
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Web

Top 10 Web Tips, (briefing 55)
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QA for Web Sites: Useful Pointers, (briefing 46)
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The Purpose Of Your Project Web Site, (briefing 15)
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Compliance with HTML Standards, (briefing 01)
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Deployment Of XHTML 1.0, (briefing 35)
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Use Of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), (briefing 34)
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Use of Automated Tools For Testing Web Site Accessibility, (briefing 02)
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How To Evaluate A Web Site's Accessibility Level, (briefing 12)
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Accessibility Testing In Web Browsers, (briefing 57)
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Tangram Model For Web Accessibility, (briefing 101)
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Use Of Proprietary Formats On Web Sites, (briefing 03)
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Approaches To Link Checking, (briefing 07)
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Search Facilities For Your Web Site, (briefing 08)
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404 Error Pages On Web Sites, (briefing 06)
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Enhancing Web Site Navigation Using The LINK Element, (briefing 10)
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Performance Indicators For Your Project Web Site, (briefing 17)
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Accessing Your Web Site On A PDA, (briefing 05)
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Changing A Project's Web Site Address, (briefing 32)
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Top 10 Tips For Preserving Web Sites, (briefing 45)
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Mothballing Your Web Site, (briefing 04)
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A URI Interface To Web Testing Tools, (briefing 59)
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Using The QA For Web Toolkit, (briefing 72)
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URI Naming Conventions For Your Project Web Site, (briefing 16)
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An Introduction To Persistent Identifiers, (briefing 80)
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Usage Statistics For Web Sites, (briefing 84)
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Impact Analysis For Web Sites, (briefing 99)
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An Introduction to Secure Web Practice, (briefing 108)
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Web 2.0

An Introduction To Web 2.0, (briefing 92)
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An Introduction To RSS And News Feeds, (briefing 77)
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An Introduction To Mashups, (briefing 112)
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An Introduction To Wikis, (briefing 78)
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An Introduction To Web Services, (briefing 85)
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An Introduction To AJAX, (briefing 93)
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Introduction To OPML, (briefing 97)
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Risk Assessment For Use Of Third Party Web 2.0 Services, (briefing 98)
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An Introduction To Microformats, (briefing 100)
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Web 2.0: Supporting Library Users, (briefing 102)
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Web 2.0: Addressing the Barriers to Implementation in a Library Context, (briefing 103)
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Web Security, Services and AJAX, (briefing 109)
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Web 2.0 At Events

Exploiting Networked Applications At Events, (briefing 106)
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Guidelines For Exploiting WiFi Networks At Events, (briefing 107)
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Guide To The Use Of Wikis At Events, (briefing 104)
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Use Of Social Tagging Services At Events, (briefing 105)
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Usability

Usability and the Web, (briefing 86)
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Introduction to Cognitive Walkthroughs, (briefing 87)
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Task Analysis and Usability, (briefing 88)
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Heuristic Evaluation, (briefing 89)
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Developing User Personas, (briefing 90)
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AJAX And Usability Issues, (briefing 94)
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Layout Testing with Greeked Pages, (briefing 111)
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Metadata

An Introduction To Metadata, (briefing 41)
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Metadata Deployment, (briefing 42)
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Quality Assurance For Metadata, (briefing 43)
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Metadata Harvesting, (briefing 44)
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IMS Question And Test Interoperability, (briefing 36)
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Choosing a Metadata Standard For Resource Discovery, (briefing 63)
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Metadata And Subject Searching, (briefing 64)
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QA In The Construction Of A TEI Header, (briefing 69)
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Using The QA For Metadata Toolkit, (briefing 73)
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An Introduction To Folksonomies, (briefing 81)
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Software

Software Code Development, (briefing 13)
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Creating and Testing Web Forms , (briefing 14)
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Making Software Changes to a Web Site, (briefing 19)
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Top 10 Tips For Database Design, (briefing 48)
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Top 10 Tips For Resolving Poor Performance in Database Design, (briefing 49)
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Improving Interoperability Between Multiple Databases, (briefing 50)
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Top Tips For Selecting Open Source Software, (briefing 60)
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Service Deployment

Top 10 Tips For Service Deployment, (briefing 40)
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From Project To Production Service, (briefing 38)
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Planning An End User Service, (briefing 39)
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Deployment Of Software Into Service, (briefing 61)
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Establishing a Digital Repository, (briefing 70)
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Legal

Intellectual Property Rights, (briefing 26)
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Intellectual Rights Clearance On The Internet, (briefing 51)
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Protecting Copyright On Your Own Work, (briefing 52)
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How To Protect Your Rights With A Licence Agreement, (briefing 53)
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Choosing Alternative Licences For Digital Content, (briefing 54)
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An Introduction To Creative Commons, (briefing 82)
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General

Implementing A Technical Review, (briefing 33)
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Using Instant Messaging Software, (briefing 56)
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An Introduction To Audio And Video Communication Tools, (briefing 79)
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An Introduction To Podcasting, (briefing 83)
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The e-Framework for Education and Research, (briefing 91)
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Service Registries and UDDI, (briefing 95)
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Publish On Demand, (briefing 110)
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