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 state of works within 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
  • Basic documents for the MC issue:
    1. Paper: Marc Kemps-Snijders: Metadata quality assurance for CLARIN
    2. Paper: 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