Availability and Accessability |
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Reliability and Credibility |
Usability and Interpretability |
Ease of data access
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Characteristic Name: | Ease of data access |
Definition: | Data should be easily accessible in a form that is suitable for its intended use. |
Dimension: | Availability and Accessability |
Granularity: | Information object |
Characteristic Type: | Usage |
Implementation Form: | Process-based approach |
Verification Metric:
The number of tasks failed or under performed due to lack of ease in data access |
The number of complaints received due to lack of ease in data access |
Validation Metric:
To what extent required capabilities and skills have been implemented to improve the data usage of a task |
BackgroundGuidelines
The original definitions given below formed the basis of the consolidated definition of the characteristic.
Definition: | Source: |
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Accessibility refers to the physical conditions in which users can obtain data Clarity refers to the data’s information environment including appropriate metadata. | LYON, M. 2008. Assessing Data Quality , Monetary and Financial Statistics. Bank of England. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/ statistics/Documents/ms/articles/art1mar08.pdf. More from this source |
Speed and ease of locating and obtaining an information object relative to a particular activity | STVILIA, B., GASSER, L., TWIDALE, M. B. & SMITH, L. C. 2007. A framework for information quality assessment. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58, 1720-1733. More from this source |
Data are available or easily or quickly retrieved. | WANG, R. Y. & STRONG, D. M. 1996. Beyond accuracy: What data quality means to data consumers. Journal of management information systems, 5-33. More from this source |
The implementation guidelines are guidelines to follow in regard to the characteristic. The scenarios are examples of the implementation
Guidelines: | Scenario: |
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Routinely accessed information to continue operations, should be automatically delivered to stakeholders online without wasting their time to search for it. | (1) Daily exchange rates are linked into the accounting application or maintained in a dash board on the accountants desktop.
(2) Production efficiency is made available on a display board in the production floor. |
Information needed for management reporting purposes should be identified and catered through built in reports where the users do not have to create the reports themselves. | (1) Order status is frequently searched information by different stake holder groups and hence a report is made available with multiple searching criteria. |
Facilitate users by providing tools to query the database without using any specific technical knowledge and perform business analytics to bring innovation | (1) Technical infrastructure supports the users to develop their own reports based on dynamic information needs without consulting technical staff. |
Facilitate the user to filter the relevant information depending on the need. | (1) Sales report with filtering criteria for customer and date range. |
The interfaces and reports should be created conveniently the users do not have to write complex queries or further process information before usage. | (1) Product prices are ordered as per "Relevance" or "Price" to enable an e-commerce customer on a purchase decision |
Availability and Accessability |
Currency |
Reliability and Credibility |
Usability and Interpretability |
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