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One of the aims of db-Qual has always been to alert readers to some of the major activities in the information quality world. This feature under the Q&E banner hghlights a few notables.
The Online Information Meeting in December is normally a rich source of material but this year only one paper dealt with quality and evaluation and neither term appeared in the index. Helene Gold's paper was more about building Web sites than evaluating existing sites but was written from a user as well as a designer standpoint. She was therefore looking at how the Web site would be used and how the uses could best be served in the design.
Gold, H. Building successful Web sites for small academic libraries: where to start, what you'll need to know and how to succeed. In Brian McKenna (ed) Online Information 99: 23rd International Online Information Meeting Proceedings, London, 7-9 December 1999. Oxford: Learned Information, 1999. 53-56. Available at http://www.eckerd.edu/library/onlineinfo.htm.
As Euroabstracts 37-6/99 says, "Most of Europe's citizens have never heard of the Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS), yet the research carried out there touches many aspects of our lives." The ISIS annual report is available (free of charge) and pride of place in the report goes to work on security and reliability in the information society - "the foundation of standards is necessary to protect the public and bring together the different pieces of information technology." The ISIS Advanced Techniques for Information Analysis Unit develops techniques and methodologies to solve problems and satisfy needs related to the use of information (data, images, knowledge) by using new software and hardware technologies. If CIQM has not exactly used "new software and hardware technologies", it has looked at new methodologies to assure information quality.
CIQM will be contacting ISIS in the near future to discuss quality issues relating to information resources and to explore means of working together.
The Institute can be found at http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/isis or contacted on +39 0332 785409.
CHiQ (which featured in a previous issue) is now working with OMNI
on providing accredited information on diseases. CHiQ has a website at http://www.chiq.org.uk.
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