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| IMRC - Indexing Federal Government Web Pages:
Guidelines for the Development of an Indexing Policy |
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- A process of quality assurance should be developed and
implemented to support the indexing process, in order to ensure that a
particular concept or subject will always be represented in the same way.
- Information managers should be accountable for consistency
and accuracy
- Departmental librarians are a good source of expertise in
this area and should be consulted.
Failure to develop and implement a policy for
indexing and the application of metadata may result in the inconsistent and
inappropriate population of the relevant metadata elements.
This would seriously affect the efficiency and quality of information
retrieval. Indexing and metadata
application are likely to have significant costs associated with them whether
the work is done properly or not.
Revision of incorrectly or inadequately applied metadata will increase
costs in the long term.
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