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Metadata Enhancements and Quality
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Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, University of North Texas

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The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries participate in a
number of collaborative digital initiatives. Maintaining usable and
sustainable digital collections necessitates maintaining high quality
metadata about those digital objects. Because poor metadata quality
can result in ambiguity, poor recall and inconsistent search results,
the existence of robust and strong quality assurance mechanisms is
a necessary feature of a well-functioning digital library. Recognizing
the strategic benefit of quality metadata as a means of ensuring long
term access to its digital resources, the UNT Libraries employ a
number of metadata quality assurance procedures, tools, and associ-
ated quality assurance mechanisms.
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