Aspects of quality

Aitchison, T. M.

doi:10.3233/isu-1988-82-403

“…Despite the range of interpretations of quality by database producers [20,21,22,23,24], the literature shows that, over the last few years, there have been increasing calls for higher standards regarding the quality of various attributes and aspects of information services. The transition from printed sources containing a few thousand information units to electronic manipulation of hundreds of thousands or millions of information units in a database and the direct use by information services and end-users have created a new situation which gives users the opportunity to exert direct influence on database producers and database providers.…”

Section: Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Quality in the Production of Databases

Rittberger

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1997

Journal of Information Science

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Quality, quality control and assurance, and especially quality management are becoming more and more important in using online information services. In this paper, we will focus on the production of online bibliographic databases and discuss possible attributes responsible for the quality of this kind of online database. Starting with the acquisition of the original document, the quality of document analysis in the selection of the document, subject and bibliographical analysis are considered, whereby we give examples of how the quality attributes of the different production steps may be measured. Finally, we describe, as an example, a database recording and production system with its testing routines and reference data.

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Measuring quality in the production of databases

Rittberger

¹

,

Rittberger

²

1997

Journal of Information Science

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Quality, quality control and assurance, and especially quality management are becoming more and more important in using online information services. In this paper, we will focus on the production of online bibliographic databases and discuss possible attributes responsible for the quality of this kind of online database. Starting with the acquisition of the original document, the quality of document analysis in the selection of the document, subject and bibliographical analysis are considered, whereby we give examples of how the quality attributes of the different production steps may be measured. Finally, we describe, as an example, a database recording and production system with its testing routines and reference data

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