Great stuff, but have we even left the starting blocks?
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As one of a growing band of people calling themselves ‘information and data quality experts’, you’d expect me to keep up with ‘what’s what’ in the world of Data and Information. Last week I attended the MDM Summit, and this week I found some time for some googling and found out about two new(ish) publications.
The first, a book titled Data Quality Assessment by Arkaday Maydanchik, and the second is an industry report by Daragh O Brien.
The trouble is, Maydanchik’s offering is c.£30 including P&P from Amazon, whereas O Brien’s report is c.£350 (or c£200 if you use O Brien’s special link on his blog). So for now, I’ll have to be ‘half an expert’, and bought Maydanchik’s book from Amazon which arrived yesterday.
I’m full of admiration to those who have the drive, determination, commitment, and ideally the writing skill and worthwhile message to start, and finish writing a book.
I obviously can not comment on O Brien’s work, or start to make a comparission between these two new offerings, however, this mornings read of Maydanchik’s ‘Introduction’ pages, (whilst sweet, I'd suggest you skip the Acknowledgements page), and read pages 4 and 5, was more than enough for a first instalment on a Saturday morning hangover!
I obviously need to finish reading Maydanchik's contribution, (and probably think about re-reading some of the earlier books by Redman, English and Olsen), however, whilst the 'band of experts' is definitely growing and very encouraging, (as indicated by the growing number of books, papers, blogs, associated software tools, conferences, training courses and perhaps more encouraging, the growing number of jobs with specific accountabilities for data and information quality) from where I sit, a strategic view might suggest that whilst all this is encouraging stuff, the maturation of the data and information management world in Business terms, may not even have left the starting blocks!
