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

2011-04-12 Thread Norman Gray
Glenn and all, greetings. On 2011 Apr 9, at 03:10, glenn mcdonald wrote: I don't think data quality is an amorphous, aesthetic, hopelessly subjective topic. Data beauty might be subjective, and the same data may have different applicability to different tasks, but there are a lot of obvious

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

2011-04-12 Thread Muriel Foulonneau
Hi Glenn, This reminds me some established frameworks. Here is a list of criteria gathered from the literature for metadata quality [1]. It is not exhaustive. Besiki Svitlia has also worked on a more comprehensive framework [2]. More has been done on information quality in general. However I

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

2011-04-12 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 21:10 -0400, glenn mcdonald wrote: I don't think data quality is an amorphous, aesthetic, hopelessly subjective topic. Data beauty might be subjective, and the same data may have different applicability to different tasks, but there are a lot of obvious and

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
As part of conversations about data, you do need to able to see the subjectively bad to make it subjectively good. What you can't do (which is what Glenn does repeatedly) is conflate the tools that actually enable you see the subjectively good, bad, or ugly with said data. I'm a tool

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
A minor quibble, not sure about Directionality. You can follow an RDF link in both directions (at least in SPARQL and any RDF API I've worked with). I would be inclined to generalize and rephrase this as ... Consistency of modelling: whichever way you make modelling decisions such as

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 9:33 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: As part of conversations about data, you do need to able to see the subjectively bad to make it subjectively good. What you can't do (which is what Glenn does repeatedly) is conflate the tools that actually enable you see the

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 9:53 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: 1. http://lod.openlinksw.com/describe/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMichael_Jackson -- basic description of 'Micheal

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
But who ever told you, or inferred to you, that any LOD demo is about the Complete Linked Data Experience let alone the Complete Data Experience. I didn't capitalize those. A human's experience of data is the product of the underlying data and the tool/experience/interface through which they

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 9:53 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: 1. http://lod.openlinksw.com/describe/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMichael_Jackson -- basic description of 'Micheal

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
BIND(URI(CONCAT(http://dbpedia.org/resource/;, ?label)) AS ?dbpResource) The 1.0/1.1 clunkiness is just temporary, but I feel obliged to point out the hand-waving in this join-via-URI-concatenation...

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 10:03 AM, Rob Vesse wrote: Hi Glenn Interjecting into your email thread re Danny's SPARQL puzzle in case you hadn't seen my tweets to him today on this topic On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:33:05 -0400, glenn mcdonald gl...@furia.com wrote: Which is what I was talking about in

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 10:08 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: But who ever told you, or inferred to you, that any LOD demo is about the Complete Linked Data Experience let alone the Complete Data Experience. I didn't capitalize those. A human's experience of data is the product of the underlying

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 10:19 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: BIND(URI(CONCAT(http://dbpedia.org/resource/;, ?label)) AS ?dbpResource) The 1.0/1.1 clunkiness is just temporary, but I feel obliged to point out the hand-waving in this join-via-URI-concatenation... What now? You don't like the manner in

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 10:30 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: In addition to my prior comments, you could have looked up the source of the subjectively errant assertion So you call Michael Jackson owl:sameAs Michael Rodrick a subjectively errant assertion? I definitely don't know what you mean by

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 10:37 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: On your part, you claim Excel is pathetic. No, I said that it's pathetic that Excel doesn't offer better tools for evaluating and improving data. Excel has always been extensible. You or anyone else can extend it. Thus, how can it be pathetic

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
BIND(URI(CONCAT(http://dbpedia.org/resource/;, ?label)) AS ?dbpResource) The 1.0/1.1 clunkiness is just temporary, but I feel obliged to point out the hand-waving in this join-via-URI-concatenation... What now? You don't like the manner in which a solution has been constructed? What are

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 10:59 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: If you can't see the data there's nothing to fix, thus we end up in a subjective fools paradise. Not sure who you're talking to here. I'm certainly not arguing against seeing the data. You continue to imply that seeing subjectively

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
Stop quibbling, contribute a solution. As you know, but others might not, I work on www.needlebase.com, a graph-database project incubated at ITA and due to become part of Google any hour now. It takes a somewhat different approach to data representation and data curation than the

Fwd: Early Bird Registration - Second Annual VIVO Conference

2011-04-12 Thread Tim Berners-Lee
Would it be great to have some folks from the LOD community at this conference to make sure that VIVO interfaces well in with the rest of the LOD cloud? Tim Begin forwarded message: From: VIVO alici...@ufl.edu Date: 2011-04-12 8:35:47 EDT To: timbl+v...@w3.org Subject: Early Bird

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 11:16 AM, glenn mcdonald wrote: Stop quibbling, contribute a solution. As you know, but others might not, I work on www.needlebase.com http://www.needlebase.com, a graph-database project incubated at ITA and due to become part of Google any hour now. It takes a somewhat

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
If you have a dataset fix for Danny's problems (or any others you've stumbled across along the way) do share via a URL. Well, the problems in Danny's case were these: - the required query path to connect gods to planets was non-obvious and not trivial to figure out by exploring - doing

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
You continue to imply that seeing subjectively imperfect data projected via a data oriented tool is problematic re., your total data experience world view. I continue to think it's hilarious that you consider it subjectively imperfect that your dataset says Michael Jackson and Michael

Re: Wordnet Planets SPARQL Puzzle

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 1:39 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: If you have a dataset fix for Danny's problems (or any others you've stumbled across along the way) do share via a URL. Well, the problems in Danny's case were these: - the required query path to connect gods to planets was non-obvious and

Call For Posters and Demos: Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011)

2011-04-12 Thread Milan Stankovic
*** CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS AND LATE-BREAKING WORK *** 1st Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts #MSM2011 7th Extended (former European) Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2010 30 May 2011 Heraklion, Greece *** http://research.hypios.com/msm2011/ *** The topic of Making Sense of Microposts generated a

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 1:52 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: You continue to imply that seeing subjectively imperfect data projected via a data oriented tool is problematic re., your total data experience world view. I continue to think it's hilarious that you consider it subjectively imperfect

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
So yes, I think you should feel a little embarrassed about broadcasting links to a demo in which the very first piece of data one sees is obviously wrong. To you the first piece of that is an owl:sameAs assertion. That's 100% fine for you, but that isn't true for everyone else. It just

Discussion meta-comment

2011-04-12 Thread Hugh Glaser
A recent thread included discussion of how to reply to postings. For what it's worth, I don't agree that the best way to reply to a posting about doing something in one system is to say: Well this is how I do it in my system. At its best, it is hard to understand what the respondent means,

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
Nothing about the DBMS hosting the datasets (where each has a Named Graph IRI) prevents the beholder or consumer from achieving the following via the available data access endpoints: 1. Accessing and altering the source query or SPARQL protocol URL I tried clicking your OpenLink Data

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 3:02 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: So yes, I think you should feel a little embarrassed about broadcasting links to a demo in which the very first piece of data one sees is obviously wrong. To you the first piece of that is an owl:sameAs assertion. That's 100% fine

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 3:25 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: Nothing about the DBMS hosting the datasets (where each has a Named Graph IRI) prevents the beholder or consumer from achieving the following via the available data access endpoints: 1. Accessing and altering the source query or SPARQL

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
Please post the URL in question so I can double check what's happening. Remember, I am sharing URLs across the Web, there are many factor in play re. time variant nature of resources. etc.. Anyway, give me a URL and I can look into what might be happening.

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 3:55 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: Please post the URL in question so I can double check what's happening. Remember, I am sharing URLs across the Web, there are many factor in play re. time variant nature of resources. etc.. Anyway, give me a URL and I can look into what

Re: Discussion meta-comment

2011-04-12 Thread David. Huynh
+1 to your observation. And FWIW, I hesitated for 30 minutes literally before sending this message, deciding to say very little lest I get pulled into some philosophical debate myself :) Sent from my iPhone On Apr 12, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: A recent thread

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/ode/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMichael_Jackson The link above doesn't correspond to any link I've sent to you owl:sameAs inference context. Basically, that's ODE one of many browsers we offer. Its forte isn't showcasing owl:sameAs expansion.

Re: Discussion meta-comment

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 4:33 PM, David. Huynh wrote: I, as well as others I know, find the culture that has developed on this list of responses saying Well this is how I do it alienating, and thus sometimes a barrier to posting and genuine responses, and so actually stifles discussion. David/Hugh, I

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

2011-04-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/12/11 5:30 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/ode/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMichael_Jackson The link above doesn't correspond to any link I've sent to you owl:sameAs inference context. Basically, that's ODE one of many browsers we

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

2011-04-12 Thread glenn mcdonald
Are 'Michael Jackson' Object ID and Object Representation Access Address distinct? Yes. BTW - can I assume this is the actual URL that you intended above re. access to JSON based graph representation: