The Need for Data Quality

Summary: Treats data as a key corporate asset and notes pervasive flaws from governance gaps, poor acquisition/update, many DBs, and duplicate data. Advocates asset-centric theories, measurement metrics, balanced architectures, process-simulation, and co-designed information systems to reduce data errors by 97%. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8175
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 5.4958075e-05
Overall Rank: 8,433 | 41.40%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Blake Patterson

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,891	The Voice of the Customer: Innovative and Useful Research Directions	1993	VLDB	5.1725247e-05

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