QA Focus And Your Project

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QA Focus And Your Project

Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN B.Kelly_at_ukoln.ac.uk
Karla Youngs TASI ILRT Karla.Youngs_at_bris.ac.uk
Marieke Napier QA Focus UKOLN M.Napier_at_ukoln.ac.uk
Ed Bremner QA Focus ILRT Ed.Bremner_at_bris.ac.uk
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Contents

• Why is QA Focus needed?
• Exercise QA And Your Project
• Presentation A Summary Of Web Surveys
• What Next?
• Conclusions

• Aims Of Todays Session
• To discuss the approaches taken to QA by projects
  
• To summarise findings of surveys of project Web
  sites
• To make recommendations for future QA work

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Why Is QA Focus Needed?

• The Need
• In the past there was a culture of encouraging
  diverse approaches
• Now, to ensure interoperability, we need a more
  managed environment
• The Service
• QA Focus
• Supports the 5/99 programme
• Liaises with JISC and JISC advisory services
• Provides advice on QA
• Reviews projects QA procedures

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QA Focuss Areas of Interest

• QA Focus
• Remit is the technical interoperability of
  project deliverables and their compliance with
  standards and best practices
• Covers a range of areas including
• Web access ? Digitisation
• Metadata ? Teaching Learning
• Service deployment ? Software development

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What Do We Do?

• QA Focus
• Is liaising with projects and JISC services
• Is carrying out surveys of project deliverables
• Is providing advice on compliance with standards
  and best practices
• Is feeding back to the JISC your experience of
  working with the standards documentation
• Is disseminating examples of best practice by
  commissioning case studies

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What We Need
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• QA Focus would like
• Suggestions on approaches and methodologies for
  ensuring projects are seen to comply with
  standards and best practices

Please try exercise 1