Enterprise Knowledge Management

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DATA QUALITY AIMD BUSINESS RULES IN PRACTICE

In Chapters 7 and 8, we discussed the definition of data domains, mappings between those domains, and data quality assertions and directives guiding the specification of data quality requirements. In Chapter 13, we looked at the discovery of data quality rules out of legacy data, and in Chapters 14 and 16, we looked at some of the more complex issues revolving around data quality. In this chapter, we look at some of the more pragmatic issues associated with our data quality rules: the actual implementation of those rules for specific data quality purposes.

We begin this chapter by reviewing our data quality rules in a context that demonstrates ways to actually use these rules. Specifically, we ...