A Tailor-made Data Quality Approach for Higher Educational Data

Abstract

This paper relates the definition of data quality procedures for knowledge organizations such as Higher Education Institutions. The main purpose is to present the flexible approach developed for monitoring the data quality of the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) database, illustrating its functioning and highlighting the main challenges that still have to be faced in this domain.

Keywords

• knowledge organization
• development of data and information services
• cross-sectional and multiannual quality checks
• higher education institutions
• information quality