scholarly journals The Potential of Metadata for Linked Open Data and its Value for Users and Publishers

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneke Zuiderwijk ◽  
Keith Jeffery ◽  
Marijn Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
Information Format ◽  
Effective Use

Public and private organizations increasingly release their data to gain benefits such as transparency and economic growth. The use of these open data can be supported and stimulated by providing considerable metadata (data about the data), including discovery, contextual and detailed metadata. In this paper we argue that metadata are key enablers for the effective use of Linked Open Data (LOD). We illustrate the potential of metadata by 1) presenting an overview of advantages and disadvantages of metadata derived from literature, 2) presenting metadata requirements for LOD architectures derived from literature, workshops and a questionnaire, 3) describing a LOD metadata architecture that meets the requirements and 4) showing examples of the application of this architecture in the ENGAGE project. The paper shows that using metadata with the appropriate metadata architecture can yield considerable benefits for LOD publication and use, including improving find ability, accessibility, storing, preservation, analysing, comparing, reproducing, finding inconsistencies, correct interpretation, visualizing, linking data, assessing and ranking the quality of data and avoiding unnecessary duplication of data. The Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) can be used to build the metadata architecture and achieve the advantages.

Public Relation Practitioners, Independency, and Teamwork in the UAE Organizations

2012 ◽  
pp. 964-980
Author(s):  
Badreya Al-Jenaibi
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
Key Issues

This study includes topics related to social networking and teamwork in the United Arab Emirates organizations. The paper focuses on different concepts including the meaning of teamwork, formal and informal teamwork, and social teamwork challenges. Several key issues to be addressed are evaluating network communication in business, teamwork rewards, and scopes in the UAE business organizations. The research method utilized is a structural interview and focus group that includes 14 Public Relations practitioners in different public and private organizations. The researcher developed specific questions, such as: What are the challenges that face Public Relations practitioners when developing teamwork for social networking? Do leaders respect social network teams? Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of social network teams? One of the research goals is to investigate PR employees and their adaptation of teamwork in local organizations, collaborations, and virtual and social networking. The study concludes with many behavioral and PR employees’ thoughts, such as a preference of informal teamwork as it relates to the organizational environment. Consequently, if the managers offer motivation and job satisfaction, the teamwork will accrue.

Developing the Quality of (Working) Life in a Community - The Case of a French Region

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 2-780-2-783
Author(s):  
Pascale Carayon ◽  
Jean-Louis Coujard
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Sociotechnical System ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
French Region

The ergonomics and sociotechnical systems field has made a number of contributions to the improvement of quality of working life. Most of the contributions have tackled single organizations. Recently, ergonomists and sociotechnical system specialists have contributed to the quality of life in communities (i.e. the Community Ergonomics movement). In this paper, we present the case of a French region in which various efforts have been implemented to foster economic development and increase quality in the community. At the center of these efforts are the organizations of the region (both public and private organizations) and the linkages between those organizations. This case study is analyzed in light of models of job development and work design, in particular participatory approaches.

scholarly journals Evaluating the quality of linked open data in digital libraries

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152093095
Author(s):  
Gustavo Candela ◽  
Pilar Escobar ◽  
Rafael C Carrasco ◽  
Manuel Marco-Such
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Quality Measures ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Resource Description

Cultural heritage institutions have recently started to share their metadata as Linked Open Data (LOD) in order to disseminate and enrich them. The publication of large bibliographic data sets as LOD is a challenge that requires the design and implementation of custom methods for the transformation, management, querying and enrichment of the data. In this report, the methodology defined by previous research for the evaluation of the quality of LOD is analysed and adapted to the specific case of Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples containing standard bibliographic information. The specified quality measures are reported in the case of four highly relevant libraries.

Using Online Panels in Psychological Research

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja S. Göritz
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Current State ◽  
Online Panels

Online panels (OPs) are an important form of web-based data collection, as illustrated by their widespread use. In the classical sense, a panel is a longitudinal study in which the same information is collected from the same individuals at different points in time. In contrast to that, an OP has come to denote a pool of registered people who have agreed to occasionally take part in web-based studies. Thus with OPs, the traditional understanding of a panel as a longitudinal study is broadened because an OP can be employed as a sampling source for both longitudinal and cross-sectional studies. This article gives an overview of the current state of use of OPs. It discusses what OPs are, what type of OPs there are, how OPs work from a technological point of view, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. The article reviews the current body of methodological findings on doing research with OPs. Based on this evidence, recommendations are given as to how the quality of data that are collected in OPs can be augmented.

scholarly journals Business Owners’ Feedback toward Adoption of Open Data: A Case Study in Kuwait

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Nayef Alawadhi ◽  
Imad Al Shaikhli ◽  
Abdulrahman Alkandari ◽  
Siba Kalaie Chab
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
Willingness To Use ◽  
Level Of Motivation

The world intention toward open data technology has increased in the past years, and governments started to explore open data technology in the public and private sectors and tried to check its advantages and disadvantages. However, in the Arab world and especially in Kuwait, there is no solid structured attention about the technology in both sectors. As a result, we tried in this paper to determine if business owners in Kuwait have enough knowledge of the open data (OD) concept and if they have the willingness to use it for enhancing their services. The purpose of this research is to measure the acceptance of OD technology in Kuwait and to gather business owners' opinions about the ability to adopt the OD concept. Making online and hardcopy survey was our method for gathering different reactions and points of view about this technology. We intended to focus on the private sector and we targeted people who own a business and wish to introduce better services for their customers. Overall, the results have shown clear features about open data technology in Kuwait and the substantial need of education and awareness of the importance of this technology. The results of this study may positively and directly affect the level of motivation for other existing studies.

scholarly journals Quality of Information within Internet of Things Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Alcañiz ◽  
Aurora González-Vidal ◽  
Alfonso P. Ramallo ◽  
Antonio F. Skarmeta
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Smart Parking ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
New Sensors ◽  
Statistical Indicators

Due to the increasing number of IoT devices, the amount of data gathered nowadays is rather large and continuously growing. The availability of new sensors presented in IoT devices and open data platforms provides new possibilities for innovative applications and use-cases. However, the dependence on data for the provision of services creates the necessity of assuring the quality of data to ensure the viability of the services. In order to support the evaluation of the valuable information, this chapter shows the development of a series of metrics that have been defined as indicators of the quality of data in a quantifiable, fast, reliable, and human-understandable way. The metrics are based on sound statistical indicators. Statistical analysis, machine learning algorithms, and contextual information are some of the methods to create quality indicators. The developed framework is also suitable for deciding between different datasets that hold similar information, since until now with no way of rapidly discovering which one is best in terms of quality had been developed. These metrics have been applied to real scenarios which have been smart parking and environmental sensing for smart buildings, and in both cases, the methods have been representative for the quality of the data.

SemQuire - Assessing the Data Quality of Linked Open Data Sources Based on DQV

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Langer ◽  
Valentin Siegert ◽  
Christoph Göpfert ◽  
Martin Gaedke
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Data Sources

scholarly journals Visualizing the Information of a Linked Open Data Enabled Research Information System

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Dimou ◽  
Laurens De Vocht ◽  
Geert Van Grootel ◽  
Leen Van Campe ◽  
Jeroen Latour ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Research Information System

CONNECTING CLOSED WORLD RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEMS THROUGH THE LINKED OPEN DATA WEB

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIGITTE JOERG ◽  
IVAN RUIZ-RUBE ◽  
MIGUEL-ANGEL SICILIA ◽  
JAN DVOŘÁK ◽  
KEITH JEFFERY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Closed World ◽  
High Flexibility

Research Information Systems (RIS) play a critical role in the sharing of scientific information and provide researchers, professionals and decision makers with the required data for their activities. Existing RIS standards have proposed data models to represent the main entities for storage and exchange. These account for the needs of multiple stakeholders through a high flexibility based on a formal syntax and declared semantics, but for techno-historical reasons they assume the completeness of information within system boundaries. The distributed nature of research information across systems calls for a mechanism to link the local entities from the closed world of concrete RISs with other possibly underspecified entities exposed through other means, as for example, the Linked Open Data Web. By transformation of a relational model into an open graph model, differences between the two system paradigms are revealed. The main principles and techniques for exposing CERIF-driven relational data as linked data will be provided as a first step demonstrating effective RISs interconnection through the linked open data (LOD) Web.

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