Metadata Quality in the Algerian Electronic Press: Analytic Study of some current available Samples

Abstract

      This paper deals with the study and the analysis of Metadata in the Algerian Electronic press and measure the extension of its standardization and quality in terms of shape and content. We have analyzed metadata of set of national newspapers written in Arabic; Echorouk, Ennahar, Elkhabar, and Elbilad in which we relied on the descriptive method that is based on analysis by using Meta-checker metadata analysis software and compare its results with the general structures of international standard metadata Dublin Core.

     The most important study results shown that the electronic press neither rely on the Dublin Core standard nor on any other specific standard of electronic contents descriptions, but it follows a method according to Meta checker software which covering almost important elements required for description in an accepted quality, especially that is related to content; title، description, coverage, and language.