Friday, February 20th, 2009
The quantitative assessment of data quality holds many challenges. Definitions such as
“The effect of the information system is determined by the quality of the information system multiplied by the degree of acceptance of the user organization, E = Q * A”
or
“Quality is defined as the degree to which a product meets the requirements of clients”
or
“Defining quality means destroying quality”
are merely intuitive statements translating or partly translating different points of view of data users. In most cases, neither the purpose for which the data are used nor the underlying requirements to be met by the data are clearly defined. Clear definition is a prerequisite for the assessment of data quality. Requirements should be formulated so as to permit an objective and automatic verification of the ability of data to comply with such requirements.
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Tags: assess data quality, bad data quality, data quality assessment, data quality requirements, good data quality, measure data quality
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Did you know that Urshalim, al-Quds, Yerushalayim and Jerusalem are four names for the same city? There is great international confusion over the names of countries, cities, streets and rivers which have been changing so frequently that postal services, health and rescue workers and transportation companies are struggling very hard to cope.
The UN’s expert committee on names is expanding standardisation efforts in order to to make it easier to find your way in an increasingly globalized world. The most prominent examples of these efforts are the change from Bombay to Mumbai and of Peking to Beijing, thus re-installing the correct names from a pre-colonial era. But the toponymic name battle still has some major challenges. Some examples… (more…)
Tags: Aachen, Aix-la-Chapelle, Aken, al-Quds, Aquisgràn, Beijing, Bombay, Brussel, Bruxelles, Cape Town, eKapa, FYROM, globalisation, globalization, international place names, internationalisation, internationalization, Jerusalem, Kaapstad, Macedonia, Mumbai, naming confusion, Peking, place name confusion, standardisation, standardization, Urshalim, Yerushalayim
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Email by SearchDataManagement.com
Just to share with you, that I found something beautiful on the web. Data entry forms have my attention, how do we approach the ones that we want to collaborate with. Today I was in the midst of filling in such a form and something, apparently more important, demanded my attention. The form was the registration form of our peer blog site SearchDataManagement.com, where they first ask you to provide your email address, and later on overwhelm you with the details ;-).
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Tags: data entry form, reminder email, unfinished registration
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Jeff Kelly, who is a News Editor at SearchDataManagement.com has asked four industry experts for their views and forecasts for 2009 regarding Master Data Management. He has asked Rob Karel (Forrester) who delivered a key-note on the Data Quality Summit 2008 of Human Inference, Bill Swanton (AMR Research), Aaron Zornes (MDM Institute) and Andrew White (Gartner). The full article can be found here. The four analysts have come up with 17 predictions in total, it is interesting to see how their views differ and some predictions even contradict themselves.
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Tags: Aaron Zornes, Andrew White, Bill Swanton, contradicting views, Jeff Kelly, master data management, MDM for customer data, prediction, predictions, Rob Karel
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