A group of professionals from libraries, content providers and OCLC have published 'Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access,' a white paper that identifies data quality issues in the content supply chain and offers practical recommendations for improved usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries.
Libraries strive to get the right resources in front of users where and when they need them. The E-Data Quality Working Group identified data quality issues in libraries' electronic content, which directly affect users' ability to find and use library resources. The library's discovery and access systems play an important role in helping users sift through and access the large amount of electronically published content. But users face a major barrier to discovery and access to these resources if the bibliographic metadata and holdings data are not of sufficient quality.
Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access offers solutions for the efficient exchange of high-quality data among libraries, data suppliers and service providers. The white paper combines business and practical information with recommendations for the content supply chain to achieve successful content discovery and access.
The whitepaper is available for download from the OCLC website at www.oclc.org/go/en/econtent-access.html. The E-Data Quality Working Group has scheduled several events to discuss the white paper, including an NFAIS Webinar on October 23, Improving Discovery and Access: Recommendations from the E-Data Quality Working Group, and a discussion at the 2014 Charleston Conference on November 6, Success Strategies for Content Discovery: A Cross-Industry White Paper.
