Abstract

The ultimate record management’s purpose is preservation and utilization. However, the National Archives of Korea (NAK)s Portal has problems such as search system aging and search tools dualization. As a result, the users’ search satisfaction is not satisfied, and the improvement demand increases. This study aimed to evaluate the NAK’s search quality as a preliminary study for NAK search system advancement. To this end, we analyzed the current status of CAMS and NAK’s Portal. Then, we established the test sets and evaluated the NAK’s Portal quality from the user’s point of view. Evaluation results were analyzed using Precision, Recall, F-score, and MRR. The analysis results showed that the overall search performance was low, particularly in the “advanced subject search,” which showed low performance in Precision, Recall, and MRR. Thus, improvement is urgently needed. The test sets established for this study are expected to be used as a basis for objectively measuring the improvement of the search performance after the NAK search system advancement.