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Quality and Interoperability: The Quest for the Optimal Balance

Quality and Interoperability: The Quest for the Optimal Balance
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Author(s): Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 21
Source title: E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ioannis Iglezakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou (University of Cyprus, Greece)and Sarantos Kapidakis (Ionion University of Greece, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-031-0.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter deals with the problem of defining and assessing the quality of a digital library. The chapter will provide a brief excursus on the evolution of digital libraries and their current complexity to make it clear that there is a strong need for systematic and exhaustive models which precisely define what digital libraries are and encompass a model for the quality of digital libraries. In this context, the authors will present an overview of the DELOS Reference Model for digital libraries and they will go into details about how quality has been modelled in it. The authors will also compare this model to another formal model for digital libraries, which is the Stream, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S) model. The discussion addressed in the chapter will not be limited to quality issues but will show how quality impact on various dimensions of the digital library universe. In particular, they will discuss how quality relates to interoperability. To this end, they will describe the conceptual model for interoperability developed in support to the European Digital Library initiative and will highlight its relationships with the quality domain in the DELOS Reference Model. Finally, the authors will outlook some future directions that may be pursued to improve and automate the assessment and evaluation of quality in digital libraries.

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