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1. Introduction to Information Quality

Authors : Carlo Batini, Monica Scannapieco

Published in: Data and Information Quality

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The Search query “data quality” entered into Google returns about three million pages, and searching similarly for the term “information quality” (IQ) returns about one and a half million pages, both frequencies showing the increasing importance of data and information quality. The goal of this chapter is to show and discuss the perspectives that make data and information (D&I) quality an issue worth being investigated and understood. We first (Sect. 1.2) highlight the relevance of information quality in everyday life and some of the main related initiatives in the public and private domains. Then, in Sect. 1.3, we show the multidimensional nature of information quality by means of several examples.

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Metadata
Title
Introduction to Information Quality
Authors
Carlo Batini
Monica Scannapieco
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24106-7_1

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