Author(s): Monica Scannapieco, Carlo Batini
Categories: Computers > Database Management, Computers > Information Theory, Business & Economics > Information Management
Publisher: Springer
Publish date: 2006-10-09
ISBN-10: 3540331727
ISBN-13: 9783540331728
Language: English
Description:
Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency
and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing
awareness of such repercussions has led to major public
initiatives like the "Data Quality Act" in the USA and the
"European 2003/98" directive of the European Parliament.
Batini and Scannapieco present a comprehensive and systematic
introduction to the wide set of issues related to data quality.
They start with a detailed description of different data quality
dimensions, like accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and
their importance in different types of data, like federated data,
web data, or… more…
Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency
and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing
awareness of such repercussions has led to major public
initiatives like the "Data Quality Act" in the USA and the
"European 2003/98" directive of the European Parliament.
Batini and Scannapieco present a comprehensive and systematic
introduction to the wide set of issues related to data quality.
They start with a detailed description of different data quality
dimensions, like accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and
their importance in different types of data, like federated data,
web data, or… more…