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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The results for all the datasets are available at http://metaq.dcu.gr/.
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This work has been funded by Greece and the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union under the O.P. Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship, NSRF 2007-2013 and the Regional Operational Program of ATTIKI in the frame of MEDA project, GSRT KRIPIS action.
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Gavrilis, D. et al. (2015). Measuring Quality in Metadata Repositories. In: Kapidakis, S., Mazurek, C., Werla, M. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_5
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