โ The notion of data and its quality dimensions - Fox, Levitin, Redman - 1994 Reading Session 202408151117
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The rapid proliferation of computer-based information systems has introduced an army of new and unsophisticated users to computers. Because they are often less well- trained, such users tend to feed systems erroneous data. Furthermore, inexperienced users are less able to recognize and deal with erroneous data than experienced users, and there- fore can be victimized by it. These problems drive system and process data quality improve- ments to reduce error rates in data input, data output, and data processing, and to make processes more tolerant of data errors. (p. 2)
The authors here imply that there are dimensions of quality beyond data values, models, or representation: i.e., dataset qualities. Clearly this kind quality โ the authors offer “usefulness”, though they don’t define what that means โ is an emergent, systemic property of data model, values, and representation qualities.