Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data
quality
Data quality and quality control methods should be part of the data information file
Data sets that are to be integrated should be compatible and comparable.
Tags: analyze, assure, database, Eric Lind, integrate, quality, Steve Aulenbach, tabular, Tom Burley
Prepare and document a plan for assuring the quality of your data, so that you and others can trust they are accurate.
Tags: assure, data consistency, flag, measurement, quality, Robert Stevenson
Whether compiled or entered from paper records, new digital data should be double-checked for accuracy to avoid input errors.
Tags: assure, data consistency, Eric Lind, quality
Quality control is highly dependent on the data collection methodology, but there are some general practices that can be applied
Use statistical and visual methods for determining potentially erroneous data points
Tags: analyze, annotation, assure, quality
In a data file, when actual measurements could not be obtained, estimated values should be identified.
