Manager

Congratulations – You’re the Manager!

This means that you or your team either use or are responsible for a National Access Point and/or a publishing service.

In any case, it’s important to have the right questions, showing that you understand what’s good and what can be improved. Here are some tips.

Quality Checklist for Managers

NAP

NAP stands for National Access Point

• Does it support English?
• Are there the essential (SRTI, RTTI and others mentioned in EC delegated acts) distributions present?
• Can an average person find the SRTI catalogue record?

Catalogue record

Catalogue Record is like an entry in Yellow Pages advertising existence a Distribution.

• Is the information correct?
• If the Record uses categories, are they properly filled in?
• Does the Record allow to find relevant documentation (see Documenting Distribution)?

Documenting Distributions

A Distribution is a service, which actually allows consuming the content.

Does the documentation include

• description of Subscription Process?
• an XML or JSON Schema?
• sample data messages?
• specification for documentation?

Ask the questions and wait for what will happen.

And if you want to get even deeper, find detailed evaluation of formal quality of Catalogue Records (see NAP and their Catalogue Records).