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: