Quality of Data, Information and Indicators in Environmental Systems
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | MABE'08: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH WSEAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY |
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| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Data and information quality; Quality characteristics; Environmental systems; Quality standardisation |
| Description | Imprecision of data and their inquality are important characteristic features of Environmental Systems monitoring and investigation. When making evaluations, conclusions and the decisions from collected environmental data, processed information and developed indicators one has to be very careful not to make fatal decision mistake. The important task of computing indicators is to deal with the inquality data and using appropriate Data Quality models and methodologies to reduce the risk of mistake. The paper presents general Data Quality model for computer systems processing environmental data, information and indicators to support organizations that acquire, manipulate and use data with the necessary quality characteristics to achieve their objectives. These characteristics are described for any computer system application (e-Environment, e-Government) and each characteristic may vary in importance depending on specific requirements of the applications of the computer system. It is taken into account all environmental data types, assigned data values and relationships between data in the paper. The case study of the assessment of quality of regional waste management data, information and indicators is presented. |
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