A Quality Assurance Framework For Metadata

This page contains access to a paper on "Gateway Standardization: A Quality Assurance Framework For Metadata" which has been published in the Library Trends journal. The paper was published in a special issue on "The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracy" in spring 2005, Volume 53 (4).

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"Gateway Standardization: A Quality Assurance Framework For Metadata",
B. Kelly, A. Closier and D. Hiom, Library Trends, Vol. 53 Issue 4, 2005.
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/papers/library-trends-2005/>

Paper Details

Title

Gateway Standardization: A Quality Assurance Framework For Metadata

Authors names, complete affiliations, addresses

Debra Hiom ILRT 8-10 Berkeley Square University of Bristol Bristol UK BS8 1HH

Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath BATH UK BA2 7AY

Amanda Closier UKOLN University of Bath BATH UK BA2 7AY

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Brian Kelly

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Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
Phone: +44 1225 383943
FAX: +44 1225 386838

Abstract

As digital library services develop from project demonstrators to mature, mission-critical services it becomes necessary to implement systematic procedures in order to ensure the quality of the content, the functionality of the service, accessibility to a wide range of users and interoperability with other services. This paper describes a quality assurance methodology which has been developed for digital library programmes in the UK higher education sector. The paper describes the approaches taken by the SOSIG subject gateway service in developing and maintaining a national service which is dependent on quality metadata. The paper then outlines a quality assurance framework which has been developed to support the JISC's digital library programmes in the UK and its application to metadata.

CV of Authors

Brian Kelly is the UK Web Focus, a Web advisory post which provides support to the UK Higher and Further Education Communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector. Brian is also the project manager of the QA Focus project and the NOF-digitise Technical Advisory Service, which provide support for digital library programmes. Brian is based in UKOLN - a national centre of excellence in digital information management, based at the University of Bath.

Amanda Closier is a Research Officer at UKOLN, University of Bath. Her time is split between working for the JISC-funded QA Focus and the IESR (Information Environment Service Registry) projects. Prior to this Amanda worked for a JISC 5/99 project as an Information Officer and has a background in library and information work. Amanda is based in UKOLN - a national centre of excellence in digital information management, based at the University of Bath.

Debra Hiom is the Director for the Social Science Information Gateway (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/) - a nationally funded Internet service for social science research. Debra also teaches a Digital Libraries Unit on the MSc. in Information and Library Management course at the University of Bristol. She has written extensively about the Internet and is co-author of the Information Professionals Guide to the Internet and the Web-based tutorial Internet Detective.

Citations Of The Paper

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