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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Measuring Quality in Metadata Repositories

verfasst von : Dimitris Gavrilis, Dimitra-Nefeli Makri, Leonidas Papachristopoulos, Stavros Angelis, Konstantinos Kravvaritis, Christos Papatheodorou, Panos Constantopoulos

Erschienen in: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The need for good quality metadata records becomes a necessity given the large quantities of digital content that is available through digital repositories and the increasing number of web services that use this content. The context in which metadata are generated and used affects the problem in question and therefore a flexible metadata quality evaluation model that can be easily and widely used has yet to be presented. This paper proposes a robust multidimensional metadata quality evaluation model that measures metadata quality based on five metrics and by taking into account contextual parameters concerning metadata generation and use. An implementation of this metadata quality evaluation model is presented and tested against a large number of real metadata records from the humanities domain and for different applications.

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Metadaten
Titel
Measuring Quality in Metadata Repositories
verfasst von
Dimitris Gavrilis
Dimitra-Nefeli Makri
Leonidas Papachristopoulos
Stavros Angelis
Konstantinos Kravvaritis
Christos Papatheodorou
Panos Constantopoulos
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_5