Quality Metrics Project
From Digital Innovations @ Emory Libraries
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Using data on how scholars actually search for and identify quality digital resources, the Quality Metrics project built a new model and prototype search system. The name of the project comes from our emphasis on discovering which attributes of digital-library records—both explicit and implicit—communicate information about quality and fitness to searchers, and how best to expose these attributes when results are presented.
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The Test Project had three broad goals:
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A search system may locate and present a broad array of attributes, but the field of information retrieval research has previously dealt mostly with a relatively limited definition of what makes a search system: “optimal” placement of results in a linear list, based on text similarity and sometimes citation or hyperlink-based metrics of quality. In Quality Metrics, we are breaking away from the web context to explore the potential for searching and presenting information in the library and digital library context—a context rich with metadata and with information about patrons. This new system will permit scholars to discover resources using both explicit attributes (such as title, author, and other data that currently appear in library records) and implicit attributes (such as citations in journals, usage info from logs, and number of times posted to electronic reserves—indicators of the scholarly value of a resource).
