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Geographic metadata quality is one of the most important aspects on the performance of Geographic Digital Libraries. After reviewing previous attempts outside the geographic domain, this paper presents early results from a series of experiments for the development of a quantitative method for quality assessment. The methodology is developed through two phases. Firstly, a list of geographic quality criteria is compiled from several experts of the area. Secondly, a statistical analysis (by developing a Principal Component Analysis) of a selection of geographic metadata record sets is performed in order to discover the features which correlate with good geographic metadata.
This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science through the project TIC2003-09365-C02-01 from the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technology Innovation. J. Lacasta’s work has been partially supported by a grant (ref. B139/2003) from the Aragón’s Government. Special thanks should be given to A. Sánchez, M. A. Manso, C. Fernández, P. Pachól, S. Fontano, A. Amaro and S. Muñoz.
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Tolosana-Calasanz, R., Álvarez-Robles, J.A., Lacasta, J., Nogueras-Iso, J., Muro-Medrano, P.R., Zarazaga-Soria, F.J. (2006). On the Problem of Identifying the Quality of Geographic Metadata. In: Gonzalo, J., Thanos, C., Verdejo, M.F., Carrasco, R.C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11863878_20
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