Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
Here in .nz the national library runs a local aggregation service http://digitalnz.org/ which has quite good penetration into schools and so forth. It provides some metadata quality reports such as http://metadata.digitalnz.org/nzresearch/127 for sources it aggregates (that report is actually quite

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Phillips, Mark
ODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record I recommend this article as an entry point into a research program on information quality: Stvilia, B., Gasser, L., Twidale, M. B. and Smith, L. C. (2007), A framework for information quality assessment. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 58: 1720–1733. doi:10.1002/asi.206

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Robert Sandusky
I recommend this article as an entry point into a research program on information quality: Stvilia, B., Gasser, L., Twidale, M. B. and Smith, L. C. (2007), A framework for information quality assessment. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 58: 1720–1733. doi:10.1002/asi.20652 Available at: http://stvilia.

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Diane Hillmann
You might try this blog post, by Thomas Bruce, who was my co-author on an earlier article (referred to in the post): https://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2013/01/24/metadata-quality-in-a-linked-data-context/ Diane On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > > On May 6, 2015, at 7:08 A

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Kyle Banerjee
> On May 6, 2015, at 7:08 AM, James Morley wrote: > > 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Phillips, Mark
May 6, 2015 7:20 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record i felt i was missing something, since i could not find some general, "most used approach", and perhaps some code on github that implements these quality measures... 2015-05-06 15:08

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Sergio Letuche
ical 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:

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread James Morley
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: [CODE

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Esmé Cowles
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 h

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Péter Király
Hi, I thought a lot about this question in the past, and my answer is: yes, you can apply statistical formulas. But you should know well each field of your record: what kind of information could they contain, whether you could set rules about that which you can apply for the individual records. So

[CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

2015-05-06 Thread Sergio Letuche
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