QC/QA at the Database
| Deliverable 6.3 [BAS] |
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| Recommendation of quality assurance at the sites, as seen from the database |
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| BAS have prepared a document that attempts to explain and recommend to data
submitters, database users, and database managers and operators the nature of
Quality Assurance as seen from the database.
The report includes implications for the methods adopted at the observing sites and at the database when carrying out Quality Control procedures and preparing the resulting data and ancillary information for presentation to the potential users of the database. The introduction provides a description of the distinction between Quality Control and Quality Assurance, and sets out the general philosophy of the approach. The subsequent sections review the nature of QC as performed at the observing sites, with the ultimate goal of QA in mind, describe the nature of the relevant evidence that is conducive to achieving some degree of QA at the database, and consider the desirable goals for future QA in a database of this type. |
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