Information quality
The term "information quality" is used in different senses, including
computer systems quality
data quality
document quality
information service quality (primary, secondary, tertiary etc. services, e.g. quality of publishers, libraries, coverage of databases or quality of encyclopedias) and
research quality (quality of knowledge production)
Quality of research is evaluated by, for example, book reviews and peer-reviews. The most common use of the term information quality today is related to information on the Internet.
Literature:
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