Re: How Do with deal with the Subjective Matter of Data Quality?

On 4/7/11 6:24 PM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote:
> Dear Kingsley,
>
> If we look at what the ISO (www.iso.org) and in particular 
> http://metadata-stds.org/ defines as standards, it is the collective 
> framework of processes, methodologies and technologies used to produce 
> outputs that should safeguard/guarantee the quality.
>
> This issue was brought up in an earlier thread on the quality and 
> standards for the production of ontologies.
>
> It would be an excellent idea to deal with this issue in a separate 
> thread and possibly make related information available on a site (e.g. 
> wiki).
>

Okay, just start the thread you desire, or get Wiki in question going :-)

Kingsley
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> --- On *Thu, 4/7/11, Kingsley Idehen /<kidehen@openlinksw.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
>     Subject: How Do with deal with the Subjective Matter of Data Quality?
>     To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, "semantic-web@w3.org"
>     <semantic-web@w3.org>, "dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net"
>     <dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>
>     Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 5:56 PM
>
>     All,
>
>     Increasingly, the issue of data quality pops up as an impediment
>     to Linked Data value proposition comprehension and eventual
>     exploitation. The same issue even appears to emerge in
>     conversations that relate to "sense making" endeavors that benefit
>     from things such as OWL reasoning e.g., when resolving the
>     multiple Identifiers with a common Referent via owl:sameAs or
>     exploitation of fuzzy rules based on InverseFunctionProperty
>     relations.
>
>     Personally, I subscribe to the doctrine that "data quality" is
>     like "beauty" it lies strictly in the eyes of the beholder i.e., a
>     function of said beholders "context lenses".
>
>     I am posting primarily to open up a discussion thread for this
>     important topic.
>
>     -- 
>     Regards,
>
>     Kingsley Idehen
>     President&  CEO
>     OpenLink Software
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>     <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
>     Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
>
>
>
>
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Kingsley Idehen	
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OpenLink Software
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