Defining a framework for the evaluation of information

M J Darlington; Stephen J Culley; Y Zhao; S A Austin; L C M Tang

doi:10.1504/IJIQ.2008.022959

Defining a framework for the evaluation of information

M J Darlington, Stephen J Culley, Y Zhao, S A Austin, L C M Tang

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Abstract: In any enterprise, decisions need be made during the life cycle of information about its management. This requires information evaluation to take place; a little-understood process. For evaluation support to be both effective and resource efficient, some sort of automatic or semi-automatic evaluation method would be invaluable. Such a method would require an understanding of the diversity of the contexts in which evaluation takes place so that evaluation support can have the necessary context-sensitivity. This paper identifies the dimensions influencing the information evaluation process and defines the elements that characterise them, thus providing the foundations for a context-sensitive evaluation framework.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	115-132
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Information Quality
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIQ.2008.022959
Publication status	Published - Feb 2008

Keywords

information life cycle
information curation
information preservation
through-life information support
information value and evaluation

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