IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency

Information Technology support for INIS products quality

Presentation to 34th ILO Meeting

Zbigniew (ZB) MajewskiSystems Development and Support Group Leader

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Structure

INIS Quality Assurance Process

Information Technology

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Entry - Select bibliographic materials

• Challenge: Coverage

• Current IT Support:

Processing of bibliographic records acquired from publishers

• Planned IT Support:

- Conference Authority Tool

- Web crawling

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Validate INIS input

• Challenge: - Correctness and compliance

• Current IT Support:- FIBRE- IDPS - Batch Validation Module

• Planned IT Support:- Metadata Extracting Tool (MET)- Unicode as INIS coding standard

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Check record structure

• Challenge: Correct recognition of elements

• Current IT Support:

Conversion from TTF to XML

• Planned IT Support:

XML as the INIS processing format

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Verify quality of document image

• Challenge: Non-compliance

• Current IT Support:

Imaging system

• Planned IT Support:

New scanning hardware and upgraded software

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INIS records quality approval

• Challenge: Quality of the “Authority” databases, bibliographic

records and subject indexing

• Current IT Support:

RECORDS processing system (IRPS)

• Planned IT Support:

DOCUMENTS processing system (IDPS)

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Compatibility with external systems

• Challenge: Usability

• Current IT Support-

Publishing Atomindex in ISO 2709

• Planned IT Support:

- Publishing Atomindex in XML format

- Unicode

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Final Checkpoint Users’ acceptance

• Challenge: User’s and stakeholders’ expectations

• Current IT Support-

INIS On-line Database

INIS Products on CD ROMs

NCL Collection

• Planned IT Support:

Opened Access

Facilitate users’ feedback and collaboration

Enhance usability of the final products

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Approaches to Quality

• “zero defects” • High prevention cost

• The cost is lower if the defects are prevented early in the process

• “fitness for use”• Increase of appraisal cost

• How much quality assurance is needed to meet users’ expectations?

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Thank you !