Quality Assurance of the DLESE
Community Collection
Holly Devaul
Workshop on Quality
30 June 2003
DCS “Holding” Area
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QA team views all DCC records prior to
accessioning
“ Holding” area for records submitted but
not accessioned due to:
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do not meet initial selection criteria
duplicate record (a mirror)
off-line ( permanently or temporarily)
changed content such that no longer meet
criteria
Item Quality Assurance
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Example items not accessioned after submission
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Not relevant to ESS
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Out of scope science:
The Official String Theory site
http://superstringtheory.com/index.html
Antimatter: Mirror of the Universe
http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/index.h
tml
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Not science
Dogs Worldwide Photo Album
http://www.rkamstra.demon.nl/index.html
AskJeeves
http://www.ask.com/
Item Quality Assurance
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Not technically robust
broken links in activities that prevent use
Ocean Currents
http://www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/html/ocean_currents.html
fatal loop in “Return to” link
Earth History resources
http://seaborg.nmu.edu/earth/default.html
site under construction
Glaciation in the Sawtooth Mountains
http://wapi.isu.edu/Field_Exercise/Glaciers/glacier_index.htm
Item Quality Assurance – other issues
Granularity issues
Search results pages from larger site
AskERIC: Ecology Lesson plans
http://askeric.org/cgibin/lessons.cgi/Science/Ecology/index.ht
ml
No direct access to material
Mapquest Orthophotos
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/main.adp
Communication with Contributor
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If “not science” email sent w/explanation
Community catalogers have most trouble
with proper cataloging protocol
If not relevant or other issues, discussion
with cataloger to determine fate of item
Distribution of Cataloging
Other
Com m unity
12%
MSU
19%
DPC
5%
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AGI
64%
Linkchecking
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Software passes over URLs 2x a day
If consistently inaccessible 3 days, followup
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If redirect, update URL
Search for new URL
Contact creator when possible
Change as indicated by creator
Move to holding if no response
The Grey Area
What’s in the library now that is of questionable quality, that
current policy does not clearly exclude?
Distracting or inapproriate advertising
WorldAtlas.com
http://www.graphicmaps.com/aatlas/world.htm
Weather.com
http://www.weather.com/education/index.html
Biased science
Global Warming
http://www.globalwarming.org/index.htm
Kentucky Coal Education
http://www.coaleducation.org/
Learning materials absent
Fuel Economy for Cars (emissions data)
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/index.htm