= [wiki:VLO-Taskforce VLO Taskforce] Virtual meeting February 18, 2015 =

== Overall Topic: Quality Assurance Methods for Metadata within the VLO ==

Participants: Peter Fankhauser, Hanna Hedeland, Susanne Haaf, Axel Herold, Thomas Eckart, Jens Stegmann, Matej Durco, Jörg Knappen
* (1) Report Matej about the current work of CLARIN's Metadata Curation Taskforce
 * Main goal: improve the presentation of data within the VLO (at the presentation level)
 * "Organisation" facet: Proposal for a mapping of terms onto one another in order to reduce of variants; this mapping has been implemented, but does not lead to 100% correct results, yet
 * Resources which should be notices/used for the MC issue: 
   1. Marc Kemps-Snijders: Metadata quality assurance for CLARIN (Paper; will be circulated internally)
   2. Thorsten Trippel, Daan Broeder, Matej Durco, Oddrun Pauline Ohren: Towards automatic quality assessment of component metadata. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/summaries/1011.html (Paper)
   3. Oliver Schonefeld: CMDI validator (Tool) --> Would it be possible to apply this tool in our context and at which cost?
   4. Jan Odijk: Discovering Resources in CLARIN: Problems and Suggestions for Solutions. http://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/303788/Searching_with_the_VLO.pdf (Paper)
   5. CMDI-Taskforce: CMDI Best Practice Guide (Documentation; currently in preparation)
 * Questions: 
  * What would be a feasible permanent QA workflow for the VLO (at every harvest) and how can we get to it?
  * What can we (as MC and VLO taskforces) provide to support the implementation of QA mechanisms for the VLO (documentation?, lists of closed vocabularies?, mappings? ... )?
* (2) Discussion: