QA Catalogue

Author

Péter Király, Jakob Voß

Published

February 14, 2025

Introduction

QA catalogue is a set of software packages for bibliographical record quality assessment. It reads MARC or PICA files (in different formats), analyses some quality dimensions, and saves the results into CSV files. These CSV files could be used in different context, we provide a lightweight, web-based user interface for that. Some of the functionalities are available as a web service, so the validation could be built into a cataloguing/quality assessment workflow.

Figure 1: QA Catalogue’s web user interface

For more info
- main project page: Metadata Quality Assessment Framework
- Validating 126 million MARC records at DATeCH 2019 paper, slides, thesis chapter
- Empirical evaluation of library catalogues at SWIB 2019 slides, paper in English, paper in Spanish
- quality assessment of Gent University Library catalogue (a running instance of the dashboard): http://gent.qa-catalogue.eu/
- new: QA catalogue mailing list https://listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/listinfo/qa-catalogue
If you would like to play with this project, but you don’t have MARC21 please to download some recordsets mentioned in Appendix I: Where can I get MARC records? of this document.