So completeness can mean a lot of different things.  In this case I am going to define a piece of data as being complete if the description of the data contains all of the available information about the item in question and if that description is captured in a manner which represents a true representation of that object in a context neutral manner.  In my experience,  this is the single biggest cause of the data issues in the enterprise.  In fact if this was done well the issues listed in the first article of this series would be much less likely to occur.

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