Title: Managing data quality in inter-organisational data networks

Authors: Yu Cai, G. Shankaranarayanan

Addresses: Information Systems Department, Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. ' Information Systems Department, Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA

Abstract: Organisations participating in business webs, share and exchange data. Inter-organisational data networks are characterised by independent and distributed data sources, and frequent data interchanges. In such networks, it is important that organisations be able to evaluate the quality of data received from other organisations. We propose a framework for managing data quality in inter-organisational data networks using the information product approach. We first highlight the requirements for data quality management in such networks. We then describe the metadata specifications for the interchange of data. We further propose a technique using this framework for managing data quality in inter-organisational data networks.

Keywords: data quality management; data quality metadata; data quality standards; web services; inter-organisational data networks; data exchange; data sharing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIQ.2007.016391

International Journal of Information Quality, 2007 Vol.1 No.3, pp.254 - 271

Published online: 26 Dec 2007 *

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