Title: The combined conceptual life-cycle model of information quality: part 1, an investigative framework

Authors: Shirlee-ann Knight

Addresses: Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia

Abstract: Systems information quality (IQ) investigative frameworks, thus far, lack a widely accepted model with which researchers can conceptualise the context of their study, and identify the important IQ characteristics to be examined and empirically tested. The result is a widely varied body of literature lacking a coherent and consistent approach to identifying and measuring systems IQ. Presented is the combined conceptual life cycle (CC/LC) model of IQ, a framework which enables researchers to develop a more accurate research lens through which to examine user/information interaction and perceptions of IQ. Importantly, the CC/LC is the first framework of its kind which can be used to address user IQ perceptions from either an information production and/or information retrieval perspective.

Keywords: information quality; conceptual modelling; life-cycle models; user perceptions; quality perceptions; information production; information retrieval.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIQ.2011.040669

International Journal of Information Quality, 2011 Vol.2 No.3, pp.205 - 230

Received: 24 Nov 2008
Accepted: 17 Mar 2009
Published online: 31 Oct 2014 *

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