AN ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH TO ANALYZE INFORMATION QUALITY FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE

Shuyan Xie, Markus Helfert

2011

Abstract

In inter-organizational service (IOS) system, the quality of information exchanged and shared by involved organizations is important. Although information quality (IQ) has been emphasized for decades, IQ problems still widely exist. For a significant class of information related to semantic issues, it is necessary to improve information quality not just by working on the information/data itself. However, this is not commonly understood and often leaves little doubt about the effectiveness of the current approach. We consequently propose an architectural approach to enhance IQ for IOS: enterprise-level information architecture allows a rich contextual environment to guarantee IQ, and provides a traceable path to measure IQ across organizations. It is demonstrated in an emergency medical service enterprise.

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Xie S. and Helfert M. (2011). AN ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH TO ANALYZE INFORMATION QUALITY FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-56-0, pages 438-443. DOI: 10.5220/0003503604380443


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author={Shuyan Xie and Markus Helfert},
title={AN ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH TO ANALYZE INFORMATION QUALITY FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={438-443},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003503604380443},
isbn={978-989-8425-56-0},
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@conference{iceis11,
author={Shuyan Xie and Markus Helfert},
title={AN ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH TO ANALYZE INFORMATION QUALITY FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={438-443},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003503604380443},
isbn={978-989-8425-56-0},
}


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JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - AN ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH TO ANALYZE INFORMATION QUALITY FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE
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AU - Helfert M.
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