Quality assurance and evaluation of change for patent metadata
- 1 January 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
- Vol. 54 (1) , 842-843
Abstract
The quality of metadata greatly impacts access to information resources, affecting both precision and recall of the search results. Metadata quality assurance is especially important for unique materials that are not widely available outside of the specialized digital repositories that provide access to them. One example of such unique and valuable materials is digitized historical patents. This paper describes a case study of the metadata management for a digital collection of U.S. patents issued in the 19th‐early 20th centuries, discusses the results of the evaluation of metadata change intended to support the metadata quality assurance for this collection and presents plans for further research. We expect the study to make a contribution to understanding of metadata management and metadata quality assurance and the role of metadata change in these processes.Keywords
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