- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:39:37 -0400
- To: Christian Fuerber <c.fuerber@unibw.de>
- CC: juanfederico@gmail.com, public-lod@w3.org, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
On 10/25/10 3:17 PM, Christian Fuerber wrote: > Hi Juan, > > I have just published a post on data quality defining sources in response to > Leigh's question at > > http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/1072/quality-indicators-for-linked > -data-datasets > > Maybe this additionally helps you to find out what data quality really is. > > Cheers, > > Christian > > ------------------------------------------ > Dipl.-Kfm. Christian Fürber > Professur für Allgemeine BWL, insbesondere E-Business > e-business& web science research group > Universität der Bundeswehr München > e-mail: c.fuerber@unibw.de > www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ > homepage: http://www.fuerber.com/ > skype: c.fuerber > twitter: cfuerber > > > > Christian, No matter how you cut it, this matter is inherently subjective, ditto every comment I am going to make about this matter via my comments below: We have to understand and accept that heterogeneity is a fact of life that is magnified by the Web. In the real world we coalesce around "world views" and their subjective truths. You can never explicitly deem one data space or the data sets it hosts as being canonically high or low quality. Of course, said data sets or host data spaces may or may not appropriately serve a specific data driven need for: a human, humans, agents, or a collection of agents working on behalf of humans. Nothing wrong with constraints that serve the needs of a specific data driven task, we just can't deem any subjective criteria as canonical re. data quality, in a general sense. One person's Spam is another person's Ham. Such is the case in the real-world and so it shall remain re. Web of Linked Data. Context is king! IMHO. The beauty of the Web of Linked lies in our ability to "agree to disagree" without shedding an ounce of blood. Basically, we arrive at deeper insights via true exploitation of gestalt -- which doesn't require imposition of absolute truth on anyone. Heterogeneity is the spice of life. We are inherently imperfect by design. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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