Data quality and due process in large interorganizational record systems

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth C. Laudon

  • Affiliations:
  • New York Univ., New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

As societies have become more dependent on information systems to conduct and record transactions between organizations and individuals, interorganizational computer systems have become a widely used method of coordinating the actions of independent organizations. This article examines the quality of data in one important interorganizational system—the criminal-record system of the United States.