Transferred to DISCUSS list. Shouldn't we at least have a measure of the quality of the data? i.e., a figure that illustrates whether a block of records are full of uncertain characters, or are they clean records, supported by a second keying that is identical, or something in between? We seem to have graphs and figures for all other things, but no measure of data quality. Isn't quality important? John Fairlie Mail us at ..... john@fairlie.plus.com john.fairlie@blueyonder.co.uk Home page... http://www.fairlie.plus.com -----Original Message----- From: Dave Mayall [mailto:david.mayall@ukonline.co.uk] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:38 PM To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Question on How Our Work is Checked Quoting Arnie Iles <ailes@stny.rr.com>: > Hello Folks, > > I'm a new transcriber. > > When we do our best to figure out the index and still come up with the * and > _ and [xx] items, and we then send the transcription on to our syndicate > leader, what happens then? Does someone more expert try to figure out the > values we couldn't get? No. > Also, before or when the transcription actually goes online for genealogists > to look things up, does anyone actually check to see that the online index > values figured out by the FreeBMD project actually matches up with the birth, > death and marriage data entries in the GRO journals - especially the index > entries that we had problems with? No. Checking in this way has been found to be fairly ineffective, and misses many errors. Instead, another transcriber will key the same page, and we will reconcile the differences. The search results distinguish between records that are from a single transcriber and records that have been keyed twice. -- Dave Mayall ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions and Archives http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/FreeUK/FreeBMD-Admins.html ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237