Defining a framework for the evaluation of information

Darlington, M.J., Culley, S.J., Zhao, Y., Austin, S.A. and Tang, L. C. M. (2008) Defining a framework for the evaluation of information. International Journal of Information Quality, 2 (2). pp. 115-132. doi: 10.1504/IJIQ.2008.022959

Abstract/Summary

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.