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Data Quality and Data Cleansing of Semantic Data

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Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies

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Data cleaning; Data curation; Data quality; Data validation; Linked data; Quality assessment

Definition

Data quality is commonly conceived as a multidimensional construct defined as “fitness for use.” Data quality may depend on various factors (dimensions or characteristics) such as completeness, consistency, availability, etc. Data quality assessment involves the measurement of quality dimensions or criteria that are relevant to the use case. A metric or measure is a procedure for measuring a data quality dimension with the help of a tool. These metrics are heuristics that are designed to fit a specific assessment situation.

Overview

In this chapter, we first introduce the concepts of Linked Data quality and its dimensions and metrics. Then we provide definitions for 18 quality dimensions along with a total of 69 metrics to measure the dimensions.

Thereafter, we provide an overview of tools currently available for Linked Data quality assessment followed by an introduction to...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Data Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Amrapali Zaveri

  2. Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication (DISCo), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Anisa Rula

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  1. Amrapali Zaveri
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Correspondence to Amrapali Zaveri or Anisa Rula .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Comp. Sci. and Engineering, University of New South Wales School of Comp. Sci. and Engineering, Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia

    Sherif Sakr

  2. Sch of Info Techno, Building J12, University of Sydney Sch of Info Techno, Building J12, Sydney, Australia

    Albert Zomaya

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  1. eXascale Infolab, University of Fribourg, Bd Perolles 90, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

  2. Linköping University http://olafhartig.de/

    Olaf Hartig PhD

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Zaveri, A., Rula, A. (2018). Data Quality and Data Cleansing of Semantic Data. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_289-1

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