Information quality in the context of CRIS and CERIF

Abstract

While standardizing on metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies are commonly used measures to improve the quality of a CRIS, there still seems to be only a vague common notion what (information) quality is in detail, which makes it hard to re-use quality assurance processes between CRISs or to implement them in a compatible way, as soon as quality criteria can not be covered by the CERIF data model itself. This paper first tries to summarize the experiences made by the CRIS community to improve the quality of their information systems and then to contrast them with the state of the art in information quality research. Finally, aspects are presented which can stimulate the discussion about a more formalized model of quality in the context of CRIS, which could complement or extend the already existing CERIF standard.