Linked Edit Rules: A Web Friendly Way of Checking Quality of RDF Data Cubes

TY - CHAP

T1 - Linked Edit Rules: A Web Friendly Way of Checking Quality of RDF Data Cubes

AU - Meroño-Peñuela, A.

AU - Guéret, Christophe Dominique Marie

AU - Schlobach, S.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Statistical data often comes with inconsistencies: records of people with negative ages, pregnant males, and underaged car drivers often populate statistical databases. National Statistical Offices (NSO) encode knowledge to detect these inconsistencies in so-called edit rules. These days, there is an increasing number of statistical data being published and linked on the Web using the RDF Data Cube vocabulary. However, edit rules are hardly ever published together with data cubes on the Web. This causes two important problems: (a) quality of RDF Data Cube data cannot be assessed; and (b) reusability of edit rules is hampered. In this paper we present Linked Edit Rules (LER), a method that makes edit rules Web friendly and reusable as Linked Data. We show that LER can be easily linked, retrieved, reused, combined and executed to check quality and consistency of RDF Data Cubes, opening up the internal NSO validation processes to the Web.

AB - Statistical data often comes with inconsistencies: records of people with negative ages, pregnant males, and underaged car drivers often populate statistical databases. National Statistical Offices (NSO) encode knowledge to detect these inconsistencies in so-called edit rules. These days, there is an increasing number of statistical data being published and linked on the Web using the RDF Data Cube vocabulary. However, edit rules are hardly ever published together with data cubes on the Web. This causes two important problems: (a) quality of RDF Data Cube data cannot be assessed; and (b) reusability of edit rules is hampered. In this paper we present Linked Edit Rules (LER), a method that makes edit rules Web friendly and reusable as Linked Data. We show that LER can be easily linked, retrieved, reused, combined and executed to check quality and consistency of RDF Data Cubes, opening up the internal NSO validation processes to the Web.

M3 - Chapter

BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics co-located with 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015)

A2 - Capadisli, Sarvan

A2 - Cotton, Franck

A2 - Haller, Armin

A2 - Kalampokis, Evangelos

A2 - Scannapieco, Monica

A2 - Troncy, Raphael

PB - CEUR-WS.org

T2 - Third International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2015)

Y2 - 11 October 2015

ER -