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QA Focus project • JISC Funded • QA Focus began on 1 st January 2002. • The QA Focus project's funding was extended for an additional 7 months from January-July 2004. www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

QA Focus Team • The QA Focus team • UKOLN & AHDS www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

What Are We Seeking To Achieve? The QA Focus work was based on the notion that projects would be seeking to achieve the following: – Functionality of the project deliverables – Wide accessibility for the project deliverables – Interoperability of the project deliverables – Ease of deployment of the project deliverables www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Why Do Things Go Wrong? • Lack of clarity of the purpose of the service • Use of inappropriate standards and technical architecture • Too high expectations • Failure to monitor developments • Thinking things are going fine when they're not • Lack of formal checking procedures • Limitations in checking procedures www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

QA Focus Resources I Documents addressing digitisation, access (Web) , metadata, software and service deployment – Over 70 briefing documents – Over 30 case studies – QA toolkits, which help you to address the key QA areas – Eight QA Handbooks which package the above www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

QA Focus Resources II QA Focus glossary <http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/qa-focus/documents/glossary/> Self assessment tool for websites <http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/qa-focus/surveys/web-self-assessment/> Presentations <http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/qa-focus/presentations/> www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Availability • Freely available from QA Focus web site • Creative Commons licence - pending www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Briefing Documents I Summary of the QA Focus Methodology <http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/qafocus/documents/briefing-30/> Implementing Your Own QA <http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/qafocus/documents/briefing-58/> www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Briefing Documents Digitisation Image QA in the Digitisation Workflow, (briefing 09) QA Procedures For The Design Of CAD Data Models, (briefing 18) Capture and Workflow Metadata, (briefing 20) QA For Geographic Information Systems, (briefing 21) Digital Rights Management, (briefing 22) Recording Digital Sound, (briefing 23) Handling International Text, (briefing 24) Choosing A Suitable Digital Video Format, (briefing 25) Quality Control in the Capture Workflow, (briefing 27) Choosing An Appropriate Raster Image Format, (briefing 28) Vector Images for the Internet, (briefing 29) Transcribing Documents, (briefing 47) Documenting Digitisation Workflow, (briefing 62) Audio For Low-Bandwidth Environments, (briefing 65) Producing And Improving The Quality Of Digitised Images, (briefing 66) Implementing and Improving Structural Markup, (briefing 67) Techniques To Assist The Location And Retrieval Of Local Images, (briefing 68) QA Techniques For The Storage Of Image Metadata, (briefing 71) www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Briefing Documents Metadata An Introduction To Metadata, (briefing 41) Metadata Deployment, (briefing 42) Quality Assurance For Metadata, (briefing 43) Metadata Harvesting, (briefing 44) IMS Question And Test Interoperability, (briefing 36) Choosing a Metadata Standard For Resource Discovery, (briefing 63) Metadata And Subject Searching, (briefing 64) QA In The Construction Of A TEI Header, (briefing 69) www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Case Studies - Digitisation Using SVG In The ARTWORLD Project, (case study 07) Crafts Study Centre Digitisation Project - and Why 'Born Digital', (case study 08) Image Digitisation Strategy and Technique: Crafts Study Centre Digitisation Project, (case study 09) Digitisation of Wills and Testaments by the Scottish Archive Network (SCAN), (case study 19) www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Case Studies - Metadata • Gathering the Jewels: Creating a Dublin Core Metadata Strategy, (case study 13) • The Development of Metadata for the Census Resource Discovery System, (case study 18) • Managing And Using Metadata In An E-Journal, (case study 01) • Approaches To 'Spring Cleaning' At SOSIG, (case study 25) www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Other papers available Similar range of case studies available for – Web technologies – Software development – Deployment into Service www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Toolkits - Online • Selection of standards • Web - Use of automated tools to check Web sites • Metadata - Use of metadata • Mothballing - Mothballing your Web site at the end of funding www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Metadata Toolkit www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Toolkits – Paper Based • • • QA Digitisation Web Metadata Software Service deployment www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

Digitisation Toolkit www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

FAQs Based on those developed by the NOFdigitise Technical Advisory Service. – – – Digitisation Access (Web) Metadata Software Development Learning and Teaching Service Deployment www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk

QA Focus Handbook Packages together QA Focus resources Available online at… <http: //www. ukoln. ac. uk/qa-focus/documents/handbook/> www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management www. bath. ac. uk