Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data

Preface

The Changing Landscape of Information Quality

Since the publication of Entity Resolution and Information Quality (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011), a lot has been happening in the field of information and data quality. One of the most important developments is how organizations are beginning to understand that the data they hold are among their most important assets and should be managed accordingly. As many of us know, this is by no means a new message, only that it is just now being heeded. Leading experts in information and data quality such as Rich Wang, Yang Lee, Tom Redman, Larry English, Danette McGilvray, David Loshin, Laura Sebastian-Coleman, Rajesh Jugulum, Sunil Soares, Arkady Maydanchik, and many others have been advocating this principle ...