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Title: Quality Assurance of the DLESE Community Collection


1
Quality Assurance of the DLESE Community
Collection
  • Holly Devaul
  • Workshop on Quality
  • 30 June 2003

2
DCS Holding Area
  • QA team views all DCC records prior to
    accessioning
  • Holding area for records submitted but not
    accessioned due to
  • do not meet initial selection criteria
  • duplicate record (a mirror)
  • off-line ( permanently or temporarily)
  • changed content such that no longer meet criteria

3
Item Quality Assurance
  • Example items not accessioned after submission
  • Not relevant to ESS
  • Out of scope science
  • The Official String Theory site
    http//superstringtheory.com/index.html
  • Antimatter Mirror of the Universe
  • http//livefromcern.web.cern.ch/li
    vefromcern/antimatter/index.html
  • Not science
  • Dogs Worldwide Photo Album
  • http//www.rkamstra.demon.nl/index.html
  • AskJeeves
  • http//www.ask.com/

4
Item Quality Assurance
  • Not technically robust
  • broken links in activities that prevent use
  • Ocean Currents http//www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/html/o
    cean_currents.html
  • fatal loop in Return to link
  • Earth History resources
  • http//seaborg.nmu.edu/earth/default.html
  • site under construction
  • Glaciation in the Sawtooth Mountains
    http//wapi.isu.edu/Field_Exercise/Glaciers/glacie
    r_index.htm

5
Item Quality Assurance other issues
  • Granularity issues
  • Search results pages from larger site
  • AskERIC Ecology Lesson plans
  • http//askeric.org/cgibin/lessons.cgi/Science/Ecol
    ogy/index.html
  • No direct access to material
  • Mapquest Orthophotos
  • http//www.mapquest.com/maps/main.adp

6
Communication with Contributor
  • If not science email sent w/explanation
  • Community catalogers have most trouble with
    proper cataloging protocol
  • If not relevant or other issues, discussion with
    cataloger to determine fate of item

7
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8
Linkchecking
  • Software passes over URLs 2x a day
  • If consistently inaccessible 3 days, follow-up
  • If redirect, update URL
  • Search for new URL
  • Contact creator when possible
  • Change as indicated by creator
  • Move to holding if no response

9
The Grey Area
  • Whats in the library now that is of questionable
    quality, that current policy does not clearly
    exclude?
  • Distracting or inapproriate advertising
  • WorldAtlas.com
  • http//www.graphicmaps.com/aatlas/world.htm
  • Weather.com
  • http//www.weather.com/education/index.html
  • Biased science
  • Global Warming
  • http//www.globalwarming.org/index.htm
  • Kentucky Coal Education
  • http//www.coaleducation.org/
  • Learning materials absent
  • Fuel Economy for Cars (emissions data)
  • http//www.fueleconomy.gov/index.htm
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