diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3212949..77e9d09 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,15 +8,49 @@ records and provide tips for improving it. - PuQI PuQI (class `MDPuqi`) generates a score determining the quality of object metadata -based on e.g. counting linked entries. +based on e.g. counting linked entries, checking the length of an object's description, +and more. +Along with the score, a list of tips is generated to describe how to improve the +metadata quality in a human-readable form. -## Plausi +### Plausi -Plausi analyzes an object's linked events (e.g. production, use) and identifies -logical inconsistencies. +Plausi analyzes an object's linked events (e.g. production, use, etc.) and identifies +logical inconsistencies. A warning may e.g. be returned, if: + +- the stated artist of an artwork has died before the stated time of creation of the object. +- events contradict each other, such as a usage of the object supposedly taking place before + the object was created. + +### Plausibility Check for Image Licenses + +This check analyses an object's event and image metadata to check for potential licensing issues. +E.g., an object that has been created by people who have not lived since the 1800s, many +jurisdictions automatically retire copyright on the object and purely documentary photographies +thereof. Hence, a warning will be returned if such an object's representations are not marked +as in the public domain. + +Similarly, almost all jurisdictions protect the works of living authors / artists. If the object's +creator can thus be identified as still alive or only recently deceased, while the object's +representations are licensed under a permissive license or marked as in the public domain, +a warning will be returned. Obviously, this means that warnings are returned even where the +actual artist licensed their works under a Creative Commons license. The plausibility check for image +licenses should hence *NEVER be used for fully automated editing*. + +Optionally, a list of creators represented by copyright collectives may be provided. If +such a creator can be identified among the object's creators, the returned warning will +contain an additional notice about the creator being represented by one along with tips +on how to get in contact with the copyright collective. ## Publications ### PuQI -Rohde-Enslin, S. (2015). PuQI – A Smart Way to Create Better Data. Uncommon Culture, 6(2), 122-129. +- Rohde-Enslin, S. (2014). "PuQi - Eine Versuchung." Paper presented at the Autumn Seminar of the Working Group Documentation of the German Museum Association, 2014 (Herbsttagung der FG Dokumentation des Deutschen Museumsbunds). +- Rohde-Enslin, S. (2015). PuQI – A Smart Way to Create Better Data. Uncommon Culture, 6(2), 122-129. +- Rohde-Enslin, S. (2021). "PuQi – Verführung zu Qualität." museum-digital:blog, + +### Plausi + +- Rohde-Enslin, S. (2017). "Plausi - PuQI hat einen Freund bekommen." Paper presented at the Autumn Seminar of the Working Group Documentation of the German Museum Association, 2017 (Herbsttagung der FG Dokumentation des Deutschen Museumsbunds). +