Data entry

This article is about a person-based process. For other uses, see Data entry (disambiguation).

Data entry is the process of digitizing data by entering it into a computer system for organization and management purposes. It is a person-based process[1] and is "one of the important basic"[2] tasks needed when no machine-readable version of the information is readily available for planned computer-based analysis or processing.[3]

Sometimes what is needed is "information about information (that) can be greater than the value of the information itself."[4] It can also involve filling in required information which is then "data-entered" from what was written on the research document, such as the growth in available items in a category.[4]: 68  This is a higher level of abstraction[5] than metadata, "information about data."[6] Common errors in data entry include transposition errors, misclassified data, duplicate data, and omitted data, which are similar to bookkeeping errors.

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  3. ^ "A Primer on Machine Readability for Online Documents and Data". Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  4. ^ a b Nicholas Negroponte (1995). Being Digital (C) 1995. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-679-43919-6.
  5. ^ EH McKinney (June 1, 2010). "Information about information: a taxonomy of views". MIS Quarterly. 34 (2): 329–344. doi:10.2307/20721430. JSTOR 20721430.
  6. ^ "metadata". 7 May 2024.