Sergio- Mark Phillips has a related blog post that I think is an excellent place to start, which outlines a system for scoring how complete a record is: http://vphill.com/journal/post/4075 There was some discussion on twitter recently about this, which you can look up on the #metadataquality hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/metadataquality I think there was a move to setup a mailing list for this topic or something like that, but I'm not sure where that stands now. -Esme > On 05/06/15, at 7:21 AM, Sergio Letuche <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello community, > > is there a way, any statistical approach, that you are aware of that let's > say, allows one to have an idea of how "complete" a record is, or what are > the actions you take in order to have an idea of the quality of a record, > and eventually a database? > > Thank you in advance