Maintaining Quality
Improving quality is a common concern across collaborative projects, what approaches can be used to review, moderate or provide evidence that will help improve quality?
Getting Started
All patterns in this category
Cite Sources
Verifying the factual claims in a record is difficult without a cross reference to a primary source.
Field Validation
Users who are unfamiliar to a database are making data input errors.
Flag For Review
Some records need closer attention to help check for potential quality issues.
Locked Record
Some records should not be edited anymore.
Mandatory Review
All entries need to be correct and adhere to policy.
Marking as Verified
Records that have been created speculatively, or where it is not possible at the time to Submit Evidence need to be validated.
Moderation
There is a need to ensure that contributions are of good quality.
Proof of Witness
Validating real-world observations is difficult without having proof
Request Review
Contributors do not feel confident about submitting changes.
Retrospective Review
Contributions need to be encouraged and made available as soon as possible after having been submitted.
Submit Error Report
It is important to flag errors whenever they are identified even if they can’t be immediately fixed
Submit Evidence
Evidence can help to build confidence in the project data