Database evaluation: A case study from the Netherlands

摘要

In the course of 1988 the Ministry of Education and Science in the Netherlands undertook an extensive evaluation of its database, ADION. ADION is the Dutch acronym for Automated Documentation and Information System for Educational Literature in the Netherlands. The evaluation included an internal technical and organizational review, a survey by means of questionnaire among the external users (end-users) and a quality assessment of the database using the precision recall technique. In this article the methods are described, associated problems and shortcomings discussed and the results given.