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Fox, Christopher; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Discussion of data quality examines five approaches to defining data in the literature; considers criteria of adequacy; proposes a modeling activity; discusses the most important dimensions of data quality, including accuracy, precision and reliability, currentness, completeness, and consistency; and suggests further research. (Contains 44…
Descriptors: Data, Evaluation Criteria, Literature Reviews, Quality Control
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Rolling, L. – Information Processing and Management, 1981
Describes three criteria for evaluating indexing performances--quality, effectiveness, and consistency. The impracticality of effectiveness measurements and the unreliability of consistency measurements are discussed, and recommendations for assessing indexing quality are made. Two references are provided. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Mathematical Formulas
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Lehner, Franz – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discusses methods of textual documentation that can be used for software documentation. Highlights include measurement of text comprehensibility; methods for the measurement of documentation quality, including readability and the Cloze Procedure; tools for the measurement of text readability; and the development of the Reading Measurability…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Software, Documentation, Hypermedia