Re: 15 Ways to Think About Data Quality (Just for a Start)

On 4/12/11 9:53 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Kingsley Idehen 
> <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
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>     1.
>     http://lod.openlinksw.com/describe/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMichael_Jackson
>     -- basic description of 'Micheal Jackson' from DBpedia
>
>
> The very first assertion on this, your first link, is 
> "is sameAs of: Michael Rodrick". And you wonder why I keep distracting 
> your technology demos by talking about data quality...
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Again, do you not understand the fundamental point? There is an 
inaccurate assertion in a relation in a give data space. How do you fix 
it if you can't see it in the first place? Subjectively bad data can 
lead to subjectively improved data.

You take a single assertion from a 21 Billion+ data space, and decide 
that's the essence of the matter. Finding this assertion (needle in the 
21 Billion+ haystack) is part of the point. Negating the errant named 
graph all together is another, post discovery. Not reasoning on owl:same 
assertion is yet another.



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