Talk:PubMan Quality Assurance

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Feedback on the functional specification[edit]

Configurability QA-Workflow[edit]

Approval: formal Quality Assurance may/must be independent of scientific Quality Assurance.

Approval: scientific Quality Assurance may/must be independent of the future data output; the process of scientific Quality Assurance on institute/department/group level is managed in many different ways and has to be representable.

It should be possible to turn off the Quality Assurance.

General Question: Who decides whether or not Quality Assurance should take place? MPG or MPIs?

It should be possible to limit the QA to specific Genres or full text types.
- Configurability of QA in relation to Genres (e.g. presentation slides and posters) is possible via system filters for customizable fields.

Comment Nicole: was a comment by Natasa in Bugzilla. Natasa, is this still the case that it is possible like that? --Nicole 11:04, 10 January 2008 (CET)

The obligatory system immanent Quality Assurance is put into question. The questions, along with other critical points, will be submitted to sInfo LA.

Comment Nicole: What is the status of this point? --Nicole 11:04, 10 January 2008 (CET)

SQA should be started in parallel to the FQA.

MPG-external publications: no quality control.

Scientists can make their publications visible on the Homepage without quality control. Full texts can also be made visible by the scientists. But they can be revised by the rights manager.

Which changes require new QA?
- Upload of new data (Rights checking)
- Metadata (formal control)

Formal Quality Assurance (FQA)[edit]

Multi-level FQA should be optional.

FQA must run again after each change of the metadata.

Scientific Quality Assurance (SQA)[edit]

It should be possible to disable the Scientific Quality Assurance through the system.

The Depositor must mention in the item, if it is already published ; so that these items can eventually be excluded from Quality Assurance.

Every time a file is changed, the SQA has to run.

Peer model[edit]

What is happining in case when one Moderator/Autority in the peer QA process (FQA, SQA) is changing the publication item:
- Option 1: Changes do not need to be accepted by other Moderators/Authorities, i.e. the process runthrough for this pub item is continued -> Problem: Not all Moderators/Authority accepted the finally released item
- Option 2: Changes need to be accepted by other Moderators/Authorities, i.e. the item "goes back to QA start"

Withdrawal of data records[edit]

Withdrawn items should be excluded from the search index.

Comment Nicole: Already implemented. --Nicole 11:38, 10 January 2008 (CET)

It should be possible to explicitly search for withdrawn items.

Comment Nicole: Could be part of the Expert search for PubMan admins. --Nicole 11:38, 10 January 2008 (CET)

Withdrawn items should not be part of catalogs, but it should be possible to put them into baskets.

Usually, a file that is once visible with PID should remain visible. In some cases though, e.g. legal actions by a publisher, an item with PID will habe to be made invisible again (which equals a reduction of access level). How is then to be proceeded?

Comment Nicole: for my understanding the current specification meets this need. Items can be withdrwan, which means that the item can only be accesed via ID and which also means that the full text can't be opened anymore. --Nicole 11:38, 10 January 2008 (CET)

Withdrawn items should not be searchable or exportable. Only the administrator should still have access to the full texts

If a user accesses a withdrawn item via link, he gets a message that the item is withdrawn. The metadata set is shown to him, but not the full text. This is to be taken into consideration when a PID-method is chosen.

Comment Nicole: in the current specification the file and the name of the file is not being shown. --Nicole 11:38, 10 January 2008 (CET)