Dear collegues, According to the standards (ISO 9000:2000), Quality include the ability of a set of inherent characteristics of a product, system or process to fulfill requirements of customers and other interested parties. So, from my point of view, the quality criteria could include different aspects: information quality; technical quality; relevance; and participants' interpretation of quality. The first of these, information quality, is the nearest equivalent to the way in which quality is viewed in terms of organic agriculture information. It includes the attributes of accurancy (clear and easy to understunding); authority (regarding the credibility and believability of a source of information); and novelty. The second component, technical quality, is included as a criterion for some organic agriculture information assessment tools and relates to factors such as ease of navigating a web site and the use and deployment of graphics and colors. Best Regards, Maria Toader University of Agronomic Sciencies and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest [quote="nikospalavitsinis"] Sitting in the 4th International Conference on Metadata & Semantics Research in Alcala de Henares, Spain. Listening to the Keynote by Dr. Christian Stracke on: The Benefits and Future of Standards: Metadata and beyond Wanted to share some thoughts presented here: "Quality is important in all types of learning, offline & online" Three (3) Quality dimensions were presented: 1. Potential (quality as perceived in the future - how should the final outcome look like) 2. Process (quality of internal processes of an organization) 3. Results (quality of products - resources, etc.) "Apart from the above, really important is your situation and context in which we work with quality. In this sense, there is no specific definition of quality" In this sense "quality standards have to be flexible, supportive & have to be adapted" For more details, we hope to have the presentation uploaded in the resources section, soon. I also hope I transmitted Dr. Stracke's words and have not altered their core meaning. [/quote]