The Need for Data Quality

Summary: Bell Labs’ Information Quality Group frames data quality as an organizational and systems problem, rooted in acquisition, update, duplication, and fragmented databases. Proposes measurement, architectural, process-simulation, and information-system research agendas for managing quality. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8365
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,951 | 45.45%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Blake Patterson (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{patterson_vldb93,
        title = {{The Need for Data Quality}},
        author = {Patterson, Blake},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '93},
        pages = {709},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,075	The Voice of the Customer: Innovative and Useful Research Directions	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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