Re: Total Information Quality and Data Quality?

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: 24 May 2004 05:28:09 -0700
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Jan Moeller <jan.moeller_at_everymail.net> wrote in message news:<2h9jhiFakai7U1_at_uni-berlin.de>...

> Can Information Quality and Data Quality be considered synonyms, because
> quality information always relies on quality data?

The quality of data is necessary for information quality but not sufficient.

IMHO data quality is about concordance with reality (accuracy), and information quality is about the utility, relevance, completeness, manageability, understandability etc of the data.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Mon May 24 2004 - 14:28:09 CEST

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