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Quality Assurance Handbook:For JISC Digital Library Programmes This handbook provides advice and support for projects funded by JISC’s digital library programmes. The handbook provides advice for projects in their choice of standards and best practices for their technical infrastructure. The handbook provides a quality assurance methodology which will help to ensure that projects funded by JISC’s digital library programmes are interoperable and widely accessible. Document details Editor : Brian Kelly Contributors Brian Kelly, Marieke Guy (UKOLN), Ed Bremner (ILRT), Hamish James and Gareth Knight (AHDS) Date: 22 May 2004 Version: 1.1 Notes: Minor updates made on 6 December 2012. Table Of Contents Introduction 1 About The Handbook 3 Background to the QA Focus Work 3 QA Focus Technical Advice 5 4.1 Standards 6 4.2 Digitisation 19 4.3 Access / Web 81 4.4 Metadata 148 4.5 Software 159 4.6 General 176 4.7 Quality Assurance 196 4.8 Service Deployment 201 The QA Focus Toolkit 236 Appendices Publications 245 1 Introduction Background Welcome to QA Focus’s “Quality Assurance Handbook”. This handbook has been published by the JISC-funded QA Focus project. The handbook provides advice on compliance with the open standards and best practices which projects funded by JISC’s digital library programmes should seek to implement. QA Focus Work QA Focus was funded by the JISC to help develop quality assurance methodology which projects funded by JISC’s digital library programmes should seek to implement in order to ensure that project deliverables comply with appropriate standards and best practices which. This will help to ensure that project deliverables and widely accessible and interoperable and to facilitate the deployment of deliverables into a service environment. The approach taken by QA Focus has been developmental: rather than seeking to impose requirements on projects, which are being undertaken by many institutions across the country, with differing backgrounds