Case Study:
Improve Quality
A publisher of scholarly journals
- Quality requirements
- discovery information — to allow scholars to find their articles
- linking information — live links from references to cited works
- forward citations — who is linking to our material
- Challenges to consistency
- many editors, many citation styles, many different journal styles
- many service vendors; printers in many countries
- Tools to ensure consistency and quality
- XML vocabulary — DTD and detailed tag set documentation
- validation tools
- XML must be valid
- additional checks for unlikely content
- manual QA on random articles
Quality & discoverability enhance journal reputation, thus subscriptions
