The many faces of information and their impact on information quality

Proceedings of ICIQ 2012: 17th International Conference on Information Quality

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 212-228

  Batini, Carlo ^a   Palmonari, Matteo ^a   Viscusi, Gianluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data quality; Information quality; Philosophy

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

DATA AND INFORMATION; DATA QUALITY; FOUNDATIONAL PROBLEMS; INFORMATION QUALITY; KEY ISSUES; PHILOSOPHY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84954460810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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