Overview¶
This chapter is for validators, i.e. users assigned to validate items submitted for publication. At present, only members of the ELG consortium can assume the validator role.
In the following sections, you will be provided with information on the validation procedure. Depending on the type and source of the contributed item, a validation process is foreseen as follows:
for ELG compatible services, validation is performed at the metadata and technical level by the same individual (see Validate an ELG compatible LT service (at technical/metadata level)) and at the legal level (see Validate an ELG compatible LT service or an LRT hosted in ELG 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 an ELG compatible LT service or an LRT hosted in ELG 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-only record”); 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 and records uploaded by the ELG system administrators, no validation is performed.
When approved by all validators, the item is published at the ELG catalogue.
The following table shows the validation operations foreseen for each item type / source of metadata.
Type of records
Validation type
Metadata
Technical
Legal
Harvested metadata
N/A
N/A
N/A
Metadata records uploaded by ELG admin
Yes
N/A
N/A
Metadata only records 1
Yes
N/A
N/A
ELG compatible services
Yes
Yes
Yes
LRTs uploaded (hosted) in ELG
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Metadata only records are records for projects, organizations but also for LRTs that are not uploaded in ELG. These records are considered automatically technically and legally valid.