[1] Although this pragmatic definition is usable for most everyday purposes, specialists often use more complex models for information quality.
If not, it is perceived that often there is a trade-off between accuracy and other dimensions, aspects or elements of the information determining its suitability for any given tasks.
Richard Wang and Diane Strong propose a list of dimensions or elements used in assessing Information Quality is:[4] Other authors propose similar but different lists of dimensions for analysis, and emphasize measurement and reporting as information quality metrics.
[6] In fact, a considerable amount of information quality research involves investigating and describing various categories of desirable attributes (or dimensions) of data.
In an attempt to deal with this natural phenomenon, qualified professionals primarily representing the researchers' guild, have at one point or another identified particular metrics for information quality.
Composition and organization has to do with the ability of the information source to present its particular message in a coherent, logically sequential manner.
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