Answering the call for more accountability: Applying data profiling to museum metadata

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-103

  Van Hooland, Seth ^a   Bontemps, Yves ^b   Kaufman, Seth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b IBM   (Belgium)

^c OpenCollection ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Collection management software; Data profiling; Metadata quality

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION MANAGEMENT; CULTURAL HERITAGES; DATA-PROFILING; METADATA QUALITY; OPEN-SOURCE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

METADATA;

EID: 79952289107     PISSN: 19391358     EISSN: 19391366     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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