Re: Total Information Quality and Data Quality?
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:20:28 +0200
Message-ID: <40b25913$0$48920$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
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> The quality of data is necessary for information quality but not
> sufficient.
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:20:28 +0200
Message-ID: <40b25913$0$48920$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Alfredo Novoa wrote:
>>Can Information Quality and Data Quality be considered synonyms, because >>quality information always relies on quality data?
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> The quality of data is necessary for information quality but not
> sufficient.
Highly advisable, yes, but not necessary. While data-processing is garbage-in-garbage-out, information processing sometimes is garbage-in-sense-out.
> IMHO data quality is about concordance with reality (accuracy), and
> information quality is about the utility, relevance, completeness,
> manageability, understandability etc of the data.
Yep. One nuance: There are trade-offs to condsider between these, for instance between relevance and completeness. Received on Mon May 24 2004 - 22:20:28 CEST