Metadata quality in digital repositories: Empirical results from the cross-domain transfer of a quality assurance process

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1202-1216

  Palavitsinis, Nikos ^a,b   Manouselis, Nikos ^a   Sanchez Alonso, Salvador ^b  

^a University of Alcala   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

APPLICATION CONTEXTS; CONTENT PROVIDERS; DIGITAL REPOSITORY; EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES; LEARNING REPOSITORIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS;

METADATA;

EID: 84901498769     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23045     Document Type: Article

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