I think a key thing is to determine to what extent any definition of 'completeness' is actually a representation of 'quality'. As Peter says, making sure not just that metadata is present but then checking it conforms with rules is a big step towards this. I would also extend this to assessing at what level of accuracy things have been set, for example dates (a rough range vs a precise day) and geotags (coordinates presenting the centre of Paris vs the exact position that a photograph was taken from). These sorts of things can make a big difference to both the discoverability and practical reusability of records by end users.
Best, James ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Esmé Cowles [escow...@ticklefish.org] Sent: 06 May 2015 13:51 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record Sergio- Mark Phillips has a related blog post that I think is an excellent place to start, which outlines a system for scoring how complete a record is: http://vphill.com/journal/post/4075 There was some discussion on twitter recently about this, which you can look up on the #metadataquality hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/metadataquality I think there was a move to setup a mailing list for this topic or something like that, but I'm not sure where that stands now. -Esme > On 05/06/15, at 7:21 AM, Sergio Letuche <code4libus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello community, > > is there a way, any statistical approach, that you are aware of that let's > say, allows one to have an idea of how "complete" a record is, or what are > the actions you take in order to have an idea of the quality of a record, > and eventually a database? > > Thank you in advance
