Error Metrics for Large-Scale Digitization
dc.contributor.author | Conway, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Bronicki, Jacqueline | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-12T01:59:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-12T01:59:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-09-10 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/99520 | |
dc.description.abstract | The paper summarizes the methodology utilized in an ongoing project that is exploring quality issues in the large-scale digitization of books by third-party vendors – such as Google and the Internet Archive – that are preserved in the HathiTrust Digital Library. The paper describes the research foundation for the project and the model of digitization error that frames the data gathering effort. The heart of the paper is an overview of the metrics and methodologies developed in the project to apply the error model to statistically valid random samples of digital book-surrogates that represent the full range of source volumes digitized by Google and other third party vendors. Proportional and systematic sampling of page-images within each 1,000-volume sample produced a study set of 356,217 page images. Using custom-built web-enabled database systems, teams of trained coders have recorded perceived error in page-images on a severity scale of 0-5 for up to eleven possible errors. The paper concludes with a summary of ongoing research and the potential for future research derived from the present effort. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Institute for Museum and Library Services | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | National Science Foundation | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Digitization, Error Measurement | en_US |
dc.title | Error Metrics for Large-Scale Digitization | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Library | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99520/1/C8 Conway-Bronicki Digitization Error Metrics 2012.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | Proceedings of the UNC/NSF Workshop Curating for Quality | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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