Organizations today have access to vast stores of data that come in a wide variety of forms and may be stored in places ranging from file cabinets to database, and from library shelves to the Internet. The enormous growth in the "quantity of data, however, has brought with it growing problems with the "quality of information, further complicated by the struggles many organizations manage information properly, or inaccurate data, costs businesses billions of dollars each year. This volume presents cutting-edge research on information quality. Part I seeks to understand how data can be measured...

Organizations today have access to vast stores of data that come in a wide variety of forms and may be stored in places ranging from file cabinets to databases, and from library shelves to the Internet. The enormous growth in the quantity of data, however, has brought with it growing problems with the quality of information, further complicated by the struggles many organizations are experiencing as they try to improve their systems for knowledge management and organizational memory. Failure to manage information properly, or inaccurate data, costs businesses billions of dollars each year....