Research on quality standard of rural information

Abstract

Researches on information quality standard is few both domestic and abroad, furthermore, there is no research on quality standard of rural information. In order to meet the need of China's rural information construction, promote the development of information science, the research objects and difficulties in the study of quality standard of rural information have been analyzed by the authors. New conceptions such as relativity, essential requirement, external expression, requisite element, optional element have been put forward creatively. Besides, researches on commonality extracted from diversified rural information and standardized treatment on relativity of rural information have been taken. Moreover, a qualified expression method based on the organic integration of essential requirement and external expression has been explored. The dialectical relationship between essential requirement and external expression, internal elements within the essential requirement, requisite element and optional element has been highly concluded in this paper. Consequently, "essential requirement, four necessities; external expression, classified description; pursuing integrity, not inexhaustibility; simple and clear, stressing on utility" as the clew of compiling this standard has been extracted and the grades and standard of rural information quality have been preliminarily brought up. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.