1. IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency Information Technology support for INIS products quality Presentation to 34 th ILO Meeting Zbigniew (ZB) Majewski Systems Development and Support Group Leader

2. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20082 Structure INIS Quality Assurance Process Information Technology

3. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20083 Entry - Select bibliographic materials Challenge : Coverage Current IT Support: Processing of bibliographic records acquired from publishers Planned IT Support: - Conference Authority Tool - Web crawling

4. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20084 Validate INIS input Challenge : - Correctness and compliance Current IT Support: - FIBRE - IDPS - Batch Validation Module Planned IT Support: - Metadata Extracting Tool (MET) - Unicode as INIS coding standard

5. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20085 Check record structure Challenge : Correct recognition of elements Current IT Support: Conversion from TTF to XML Planned IT Support: XML as the INIS processing format

6. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20086 Verify quality of document image Challenge : Non-compliance Current IT Support: Imaging system Planned IT Support: New scanning hardware and upgraded software

7. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20087 INIS records quality approval Challenge : Quality of the “Authority” databases, bibliographic records and subject indexing Current IT Support: RECORDS processing system (IRPS) Planned IT Support: DOCUMENTS processing system (IDPS)

8. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20088 Compatibility with external systems Challenge : Usability Current IT Support- Publishing Atomindex in ISO 2709 Planned IT Support: - Publishing Atomindex in XML format - Unicode

9. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 20089 Final Checkpoint Users’ acceptance Challenge : User’s and stakeholders’ expectations Current IT Support- INIS On-line Database INIS Products on CD ROMs NCL Collection Planned IT Support: Opened Access Facilitate users’ feedback and collaboration Enhance usability of the final products

10. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 200810 Approaches to Quality “zero defects” High prevention cost The cost is lower if the defects are prevented early in the process “fitness for use” Increase of appraisal cost How much quality assurance is needed to meet users’ expectations?

11. IAEA 34th ILO Meeting, 2-5 November 200811 Thank you !