Archive report cards

[Steven Bird]

Dear OLAC Implementers,

A new service has recently been added to the OLAC site, namely the
archive report cards.  These give summary statistics for each repository
and an assessment of the quality of the repository's metadata.  The
report cards can be accessed by clicking the "REPORT CARD" links on the
OLAC Archives page [1].  The report is also available for the full set
of repositories [2].  Information about how these reports are generated
is also available [3].  Reports are updated after every harvest, twice
daily.

The evaluation metric rewards the use of OLAC vocabularies, and what we
consider to be core DC elements: title, date, subject, description, and
identifier.

The service was developed by Amol Kamat, Baden Hughes, and Steven Bird
at the University of Melbourne, with sponsorship from the Department of
Computer Science and Software Engineering.  We welcome your feedback.

-Steven Bird

[1] http://www.language-archives.org/archives.php4
[2]
http://www.language-archives.org/tools/reports/archiveReportCard.php?archive=all
[3] http://www.language-archives.org/tools/reports/ExplainReport.html