Rethinking data quality as an outcome of conceptual modeling choices

ICIQ 2011 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Quality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 244-258

  Lukyanenko, Roman ^a   Parsons, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Conceptual modeling; Crowdsourcing; Data quality; Database design; Information quality

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CONCEPTUAL MODELING; CROWDSOURCING; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE DESIGN; INFORMATION QUALITY;

DATA MINING;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 84871573860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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