| Autor: |
Quint, Barbara |
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Searcher (1070-4795). Jun2004, Vol. 12 Issue 6, p4-6. 2p. |
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The article comments on the need for critics who can evaluate the quality of information, who can continually monitor established sources and who can accurately rate the reliability of information before its use puts their clients' interests and welfare in danger. Clearly, in most situations, effective critiquing of information will require specialized knowledge and expertise, the kind possessed by specific types of knowledge workers. But only information professionals have the generalized knowledge to detect the patterns of development or non-development that determine the authenticity of data sources. Only information professionals can assess the full information needs of clients and correlate those needs with the specific content of identifiable sources. The international economic and financial data in WorldData comes from an alliance of three leading business news services: the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), EcoWin, and Alacra. Scan through the announcements made by these companies and one will realize how erratic coverage must be for users trying to do comparative studies. Insuring data quality requires constant monitoring. Staying on top of data quality issues is hard enough for information professionals, but at least info pros have the connections needed to do the job. Sometimes dealing with vendors can work out better if you use a name supplied by colleagues |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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