Re: Take 2: How To Do with deal with the Subjective Matter of Data Quality?

I think data quality conforms to metrics and repeatable processes. While
some data, and data structures, can be beautiful - data quality should mean
long lasting whereas some of the most beautiful things like sunsets are only
temporary.

Deborah MacPherson

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

> All,
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> Clearer Subject Heading.
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> 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.
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> 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".
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> I am posting primarily to open up a discussion thread for this important
> topic.
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> Regards,
>
> Kingsley Idehen
> President&  CEO
> OpenLink Software
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