You might try this blog post, by Thomas Bruce, who was my co-author on an
earlier article (referred to in the post):
https://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2013/01/24/metadata-quality-in-a-linked-data-context/
Diane
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> > On May 6, 2015, at 7:08 AM, James Morley <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think a key thing is to determine to what extent any definition of
> 'completeness' is actually a representation of 'quality'. As Peter says,
> making sure not just that metadata is present but then checking it conforms
> with rules is a big step towards this.
>
> This.
>
> Basing quality measures too much on the presence of certain data points or
> the volume of data is fraught with peril. In experiments in the distant
> past, my experience was that looking for structure and syntax patterns that
> indicate good/bad quality as well as considering record sources was useful.
> Also keep in mind that any scoring system is to some extent arbitrary, so
> you don't want to read more into what it generates than appropriate.
>
> Kyle
>
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