text: **3.6 Metadata Quality Assurance (MQA)**
  
  The Metadata Quality Assurance is a component to monitor the quality of the metadata that is 
  harvested from other portals or stored manually with the EDP metadata creation form. Currently 
  quality measurement is based on metadata schema violation against DCAT-AP 1.1 and availability of 
  the distributions of a dataset. The MQA is running checks on a weekly basis. Each check has a 
  duration of a couple of days. This is due to the HTTP GET requests against each single distribution in 
  the portal, checking their availability. 
  
  In addition to the navigation buttons in the dark blue bar at the top of the page, a drop down menu 
  allows the downloading of a report file, in which all the data generated by the MQA is contained. The 
  report is available in various formats. The PDF report includes the charts displayed. 
  
  **3.6.1 The Global Dashboard View**
  
  This is the landing page of the MQA. It gives an overview of the quality situation across all catalogues, 
  datasets and distributions in the Portal. If the user wants to investigate the mentioned issues with 
  datasets or distributions in detail, he/she can use the catalogue selection menue on top of the page 
  to navigate to the selected catalogue details page. 