The Philosophy of Information Quality

This work fulfills the need for a conceptual and technical framework to improve understanding of Information Quality (IQ) and Information Quality standards. The meaning and practical implementation of IQ are addressed, as it is relevant to any field where there is a need to handle data and issues such as accessibility, accuracy, completeness, currency, integrity, reliability, timeliness, usability, the role of metrics and so forth are all a part of Information Quality.

In order to support the cross-fertilization of theory and practice, the latest research is presented in this book. The perspectives of experts from beyond the origins of IQ in computer science are included: library and information science practitioners and academics, philosophers of information, of engineering and technology, and of science are all contributors to this volume.

The chapters in this volume are based on the work of a collaborative research project involving the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Google and led by Professor Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford.

This work will be of interest to anyone handling data, including those from commercial, public, governmental and academic organizations. The expert editors' contributions introduce issues of interest to scientists, database curators and philosophers, even though the issues may be disguised in the language and examples common to a different discipline.

Addresses a topic that is relevant across many disciplines and highly timely Examines cutting edge research that contributes to knowledge transfer across disciplines Presents work from leading experts from a number of relevant fields, including practitioners Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Herfordshire, where he holds the Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. He is the founder and director of the Oxford University Information Ethics Research Group. His research interests include the philosophy of information, information and computer ethics, epistemology and philosophy of logic, and the history and philosophy of scepticism.

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Preface.- Luciano Floridi and Phyllis Illari.- Information quality, data and philosophy; Phyllis Illari and Luciano Floridi.- Forget Dimensions. Dene Your Information Quality Using Quality View Patterns; Suzanne M. Embury and Paolo Missier.- Exploring information quality in the wild; Carlo Batini, Matteo Palmonari, Gianluigi Viscusi.- What is visualization really for?; Min Chen, Luciano Floridi, Rita Borgo.- Object Matching: New Challenges for Record Linkage; Monica Scannapieco.- Algorithmic check of standards for information quality dimensions; Giuseppe Primiero.- What is disinformation?; Don Fallis.- Quality Assessment Tools in medicine; Jacob Stegenga.- Educating Medical Students to Evaluate the Quality of Health Information on the Web; Pietro Ghezzi, Sundeep Chumbers, Tara Brabazon.- Enhancing the quality of open data; Kieron O'Hara.- Forensic Information Quality; Burkhard Schafer.- Information quality and personal archives in the wild; Jeremy Leighton John.- IQ: purpose and dimensions; Phyllis Illari.- Big data and information quality; Luciano Floridi.