The ongoing debate about the planetary status of Pluto is a really great example of how the standards-making process really works. Like most debates, everyone involved is supposed to be rational, thinking adults. The most rational, thinking people on earth: scientists. The debate is to keep Pluto classified as a planet or not. And, to be honest, I can’t think [...]

Slashdot had an interesting thread on creative responses to security threats. While the article itself was about wireless networking, the conversation that followed was very thought provoking (perhaps even inspiring). The problem was that people were having others try to piggy-back over their private wireless network. The solutions, ranged from scary to annoying to hilarious. Instead of taking the enterprise [...]

Introduction When an organization begins a concerted effort to improve its information quality, often it gets stuck in trying to figure out exactly where to start. This case study takes this to heart and gives a specific example of an approach to improving information quality. Previously, we had discussed the semantic and statistical approaches to information [...]

When an organization begins a concerted effort to improve its information quality, often it gets stuck in trying to figure out exactly where to start. This case study takes this to heart and gives a specific example of an approach to improving information quality. Previously, we had discussed the semantic and statistical approaches to information quality and [...]

One of the real challenges about information quality is that the field is still very abstract. In the academic world, the theories (like PSP/IQ) are still being written and discussed. In practice, this means that there isn’t a standard way of doing things. Or, to be more precise, everyone has a “standard” way of doing things, [...]