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Quality assurance and evaluation of change for patent metadata
Author(s) -
Zavalina Oksana L.,
Phillips Mark,
Tarver Hannah
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401180
Subject(s) - metadata , quality assurance , meta data services , computer science , metadata repository , world wide web , quality (philosophy) , metadata management , data element , information retrieval , geospatial metadata , engineering , operations management , philosophy , external quality assessment , epistemology
The quality of metadata greatly impacts access to information resources, affecting both precision and recall of the search results. Metadata quality assurance is especially important for unique materials that are not widely available outside of the specialized digital repositories that provide access to them. One example of such unique and valuable materials is digitized historical patents. This paper describes a case study of the metadata management for a digital collection of U.S. patents issued in the 19 th ‐early 20 th centuries, discusses the results of the evaluation of metadata change intended to support the metadata quality assurance for this collection and presents plans for further research. We expect the study to make a contribution to understanding of metadata management and metadata quality assurance and the role of metadata change in these processes.