Measuring quality in the production of databases

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-37

  Rittberger, M ^a   Rittberger, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; PRODUCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; DATABASE RECORDING; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES; ONLINE INFORMATION SERVICES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85047675035     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555159702300103     Document Type: Article

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