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In this paper we identify and discuss key topics characterizing recent information quality research and their impact on future research perspectives in a context where information is increasingly diverse. The investigation considers basic issues related to information quality definitions, dimensions, and factors referring to information systems, information representation, influence of the observer and of the task. We conclude the paper by discussing how philosophical studies can contribute to a better understanding of some key foundational problems that emerged in our analysis.
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The use of lexical resources such as WordNet or other taxonomies represented in SKOS in KBs is widespread. Although these resources are used for annotation purposes in the assertional components of KBs, they are very often referred to as ontologies in the community (Manaf et al. 2012) and share likewise terminological components of KBs define semantic relations between concepts in a domain.
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Most of these approaches explicitly consider ontologies as KB terminologies represented in web-compliant formal languages. Some of the approaches use a even broader definition of ontology which includes instances and relations among instances and is equivalent to our definition of web KB.
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See IAIDQ discussion “Do data quality dimensions have a place in assessing data quality?”, 2nd July 2013.
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See IAIDQ discussion “Do data quality dimensions have a place in assessing data quality?”, 9th July 2013.
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We acknowledge Raimondo Schettini and his research group for providing insights and some of the figures in the paper, with specific reference to image quality.
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Batini, C., Palmonari, M., Viscusi, G. (2014). Opening the Closed World: A Survey of Information Quality Research in the Wild. In: Floridi, L., Illari, P. (eds) The Philosophy of Information Quality. Synthese Library, vol 358. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07121-3_4
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