This year's information quality and knowledge conference was held on the 14th of December 2001 at the mcm institute in St. Gallen. The overall topic of this year's event was " Web Quality Management: Further Findings." It has focused on information quality issues in the context of the Internet.

Location: MCM Institute Conference Center (358), Blumenbergplatz 9, 9000 St. Gallen

Participants range from academics to practitioners.

The presentations have covered the following issues:

1. Information Quality in online Publishing

2. Quality of Mediated Communication

3. Empirical Findings of Information Quality on the Internet

4. Information Quality: A Legal Perspective

5. Web Quality Management Tools

6. Application of Web Quality Criteria in Trend Scanning

7. Quantifying Website Quality

8. The Quality Criteria for Knowledge Extranets

The conference was organized by the Information Quality Program at the =mcm institute of the University of St. Gallen. For more information contact

Dr. Martin Eppler
mcm institute for Media and Communications Management
University of St. Gallen
Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8
9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland
(tel) ++41 71 / 224 2407
fax) ++41 71 / 224 2771
(email) Martin.Eppler@unisg.ch