Macroevaluation - like the figures that
were shown on NYPL and NLB.Doesn’t necessarily
point to how these figures are achieved, or whether they can be improved, or
aid ways in identifying failure points
Microevaluation – finds factors
responsible for the levels of performance on a transaction level
How do we measure whether one library is
more effective than another?
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And others McGrath (68)
Keep in mind what is the parallel in
digital libraries
ROC – Receiver Operator Characteristics
– used by radarmen in WW II by servicemen to differentiate between radar blips
as planes and false alerts.Was only
applied to signal processing / IR in the 1970’s.
To think about:
How do we emphasize recall or
precision in our F measure
How
do we translate accuracy to precision and recall
terms?