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Data quality at Open Food Facts is guided by 3 main principles: | Data quality at Open Food Facts is guided by '''3 main principles''': | ||
* Quality does not make sense for itself: quality depends on usages. | * Quality does not make sense for itself: quality depends on usages. | ||
* We always try to favor ease of use and ease of collection. Data quality control, data verification and data fix should never be an obstacle to data gathering. | * We always try to favor ease of use and ease of collection. Data quality control, data verification and data fix should never be an obstacle to data gathering. | ||
* No database at all can pretend to zero-default. With more than 2 | * No database at all can pretend to zero-default. With more than 2,900,000 products, there are quality concerns. Data quality is done on a "best effort" basis. The effort on data quality includes measuring quality, setting objectives, publishing them and implementing them. | ||
These principles and our high level objectives are described in | These principles and our high level objectives are described in the following short document, which you should read at first if you want to go further: | ||
https://link.openfoodfacts.org/data-quality | https://link.openfoodfacts.org/data-quality | ||