On 4/20/11 4:13 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On a related note, re. data quality matters in general, some excerpts
from an 2009 post about data quality [1]:
“You don’t talk about data quality.”
No, wait—that’s The First Rule of Poor Quality Data.
The First Law of Data Quality:
“Data is either being used or waiting to be used—or wasting storage
and support.”
Although understanding your data is essential to using it effectively
and improving its quality, as Thomas Redman explains, “it is a waste
of effort to improve the quality of data no one ever uses.”
In the context of Linked Data surmounting the essence of the above has
been our focal point from day one. The data has to be out there for
quality issues to surface albeit subjectively.
Here's another item of relevance to this thread. This time around, a
link to a slide from TimBL's WWW8 presentation [1] .
Link:
1. http://www.w3.org/Talks/1999/05/www8-tbl/slide7-0.html -- slide
covering "Independence" which has "Subjective Notions of Quality" as a
bullet point .
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Kingsley Idehen
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OpenLink Software
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