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The Continuum of Metadata Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting

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Author
Bruce, Thomas R.
Hillmann, Diane I.
Abstract

Like pornography, metadata quality is difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but conveying the full bundle of assumptions and experience that allow us to identify it is a different matter. For this reason, among others, few outside the library community have written about defining metadata quality. Still less has been said about enforcing quality in ways that do not require unacceptable levels of human effort.

Date Issued
2004
Publisher
ALA Editions
Keywords
metadata quality
Previously Published as
In Metadata in Practice, D. Hillmann & E Westbrooks, eds.
ISSN
0-8389-0882-9
Type
book chapter
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Reader note: This document was created from the originally submitted version. The original appears to be a working draft and included numbered placeholders for footnotes that were never completed. These placeholders have been replaced with the text "(incomplete footnote)."

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