Improve Content Quality
Building Quality Content for Construction Success
The quality of data content is essential for building and construction projects. At EDocuments, we believe in raising data quality to its highest potential. That’s why we created the EDocuments platform - to cut through the chaos of content creation and empower your team to focus on producing reliable, valuable data.
Without accurate information about equipment, materials, designs, and models, it’s challenging to meet a project’s information requirements effectively. EDocuments follows three essential steps to help design and construction teams gather quality data, enabling them to make informed decisions and create successful projects.
- Start with a plan
- Use digital data collection with data standards
- Regularly review your data
Start with a plan
Before you begin collecting data, lay out exactly what type of information you should be gathering, who should be responsible for providing it, and the timeline for getting it done. This ensures everyone on your team knows their role and can help keep the project moving forward.
Use digital data collection with data standards
Digital tools can help streamline the process and ensure accuracy of information gathered by eliminating manual entry errors.
Develop data standards. Setting consistent guidelines for the type and quality of information you need makes it easier to ensure that all team members are on the same page when collecting data.
Regularly review your data
Reviewing data for accuracy and completeness helps to keep content up to date, which is essential for a successful project. If any discrepancies or missing information is found, make sure to address it right away.
Data audit trail for data quality
Full audit trail to keep track of who did what and why. EDocuments' platform includes this as standard.
Key functionality when gathering data is an audit trail, which logs changes made to data content and can be used to trace any discrepancies or issues back to their source. This kind of data quality control helps construction teams identify sources of errors so they can address them quickly and improve the accuracy of their content.
Validation ensures that your data is accurate and reliable
The next step is to validate the data. Validation ensures that your data is accurate and reliable, so it’s important to use a range of checks and validations to ensure all information is correct. This includes cross-checking data against other sources, running tests on the validity of the data itself and making sure that any discrepancies are rectified as quickly as possible. By taking the time to double-check your data, you can ensure that all work is completed accurately and efficiently.
Single source of truth
Creating a single source of truth ensures that sites project and containing data are standardised, across the organisation. Without a single source of truth, data sets exist in siloes and each project can be poles apart.
The EDocuments platform is built on this principle.
