Validating items contributed to ELG

This chapter is for validators, i.e. users that have been assigned to validate items submitted for publication. Depending on the type and source of the contributed item, a validation process is foreseen as follows:

• for functional services, validation is performed at the metadata and technical level by the same individual (see Validate a functional LT service (at technical/metadata level)) and at the legal level (see Validate a functional LT service or ELG hosted LRT at legal level); all validators are assigned manually by an administrator of the ELG platform

• for resources hosted at ELG, validation is performed at the metadata and technical level by the same individual (see Validate an LRT hosted in ELG (at technical/metadata level)) and at the legal level (see Validate a functional LT service or ELG hosted LRT at legal level); all validators are automatically assigned by the system (based on work overload) but can also be manually re-assigned by the administrator

• for items with metadata only (e.g., projects, organizations, corpora accessible through other repositories), validation is performed at the metadata level only (see Validate a “metadata record only” (at metadata level)); the validator is automatically assigned by the system (based on work overload) but can also be manually re-assigned by the administrator

• for harvested metadata records, no validation is performed.

When approved by all validators, the item is published at the ELG catalogue.

At present, only members of the ELG consortium can assume the validator role.