Quality Assurance of the DLESE Community Collection

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Quality Assurance of the DLESE Community
Collection

• Holly Devaul
• Workshop on Quality
• 30 June 2003

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DCS Holding Area

• QA team views all DCC records prior to
  accessioning
• Holding area for records submitted but not
  accessioned due to
• do not meet initial selection criteria
• duplicate record (a mirror)
• off-line ( permanently or temporarily)
• changed content such that no longer meet criteria

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Item Quality Assurance

• Example items not accessioned after submission
• Not relevant to ESS
• Out of scope science
• The Official String Theory site
  http//superstringtheory.com/index.html
• Antimatter Mirror of the Universe
• http//livefromcern.web.cern.ch/li
  vefromcern/antimatter/index.html
• Not science
• Dogs Worldwide Photo Album
• http//www.rkamstra.demon.nl/index.html
• AskJeeves
• http//www.ask.com/

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Item Quality Assurance

• Not technically robust
• broken links in activities that prevent use
• Ocean Currents http//www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/html/o
  cean_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/glacie
  r_index.htm

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Item Quality Assurance other issues

• Granularity issues
• Search results pages from larger site
• AskERIC Ecology Lesson plans
• http//askeric.org/cgibin/lessons.cgi/Science/Ecol
  ogy/index.html
• No direct access to material
• Mapquest Orthophotos
• http//www.mapquest.com/maps/main.adp

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Communication with Contributor

• 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

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Linkchecking

• Software passes over URLs 2x a day
• If consistently inaccessible 3 days, follow-up
• If redirect, update URL
• Search for new URL
• Contact creator when possible
• Change as indicated by creator
• Move to holding if no response

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The Grey Area

• Whats 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