Anchoring data quality dimensions in ontological foundations

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Volume 39 , Issue 11 (November 1996) table of contents

Pages: 86 - 95

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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Yair Wand	University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Richard Y. Wang	MIT Sloan School of Management

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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