Evaluation and enhancement of information quality in information suppliers

Abstract

      Affirms the necessity of evaluating information quality; reviews 6 the most important qualitative indicators: exactitude, timeliness, relevance, completeness, reliability and actuality; recommends a method for information quality evaluation, beginning with quantification by objective and subjective investigation, and ending by setting up a general schema for evaluation, results of which be used to check the supplier's activity of information production and supply in aim at information quality improvement