Quality data representation in web portal — A case study

Web information systems are characterized by the presentation of a large amount of data to a wide audience, the quality of which can be very heterogeneous. Every organization and individual can create a web site and load every kind of information without any control on its quality, and sometimes with a malicious intent. The information systems on the web need to publish information in the shortest possible time after it is available from information sources. The information has to be checked with regard to its accuracy, currency, and trustworthiness of its sources using the data quality measure. The Quality of the Data presented by the web portals has to be analyzed. Intrinsic and representational categories of data quality are very important in the web portal to give the data in most effective manner. The main aim of this paper is to quantify the Data qualities through their dimensions. This paper has made a study about the attributes of quality representation of data and a case study about how effective, the data representation has been made with “Education” column of `The Hindu' daily news paper web portal (online).