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Assessing and Refining Mappings to RDF to Improve Dataset Quality

Anastasia Dimou, Dimitris Kontokostas, Markus Freudenberg, Ruben Verborgh, Jens Lehmann, Erik Mannens, Sebastian Hellmann, and Rik Van de Walle

RDF dataset quality assessment is currently performed primarily after data is published. However, there is neither a systematic way to incorporate its results into the dataset nor the assessment to the publishing workflow. Adjustments are manually—but rarely—applied. Nevertheless, the root of the violations which often derive from the mappings that specify how the RDF dataset will be generated, is not identified. We suggest an incremental, iterative and uniform validation workflow for RDF datasets stemming originally from semi-structured data (e.g., CSV, XML, JSON). In this work, we focus on assessing and improving their mappings. We incorporate i) a test-driven approach for assessing the mappings instead of the RDF dataset itself, as mappings reflect how the dataset will be formed when generated; and ii) perform semi-automatic mapping refinements based on the results of the quality assessment. The proposed workflow is applied to different cases, e.g., large, crowdsourced datasets as DBpedia, or newly generated, as iLastic. Our evaluation indicates the efficiency of our workflow, as it improves significantly the overall quality of an RDF dataset in the observed cases.

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Published in 2015 in Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference.

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@inproceedings{dimou_iswc_2015a,
  author = {Dimou, Anastasia and Kontokostas, Dimitris and Freudenberg, Markus and Verborgh, Ruben and Lehmann, Jens and Mannens, Erik and Hellmann, Sebastian and Van de Walle, Rik},
  title = {Assessing and Refining Mappings to {RDF} to Improve Dataset Quality},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference},
  editor = {Arenas, Marcelo and Corcho, Oscar and Simperl, Elena and Strohmaier, Markus and d'Aquin, Mathieu and Srinivas, Kavitha and Groth, Paul and Dumontier, Michel and Heflin, Jeff and Thirunarayan, Krishnaprasad and Staab, Steffen},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = 9367,
  pages = {133--149},
  year = 2015,
  month = oct,
}

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Anastasia Dimou, Dimitris Kontokostas, Markus Freudenberg, Ruben Verborgh, Jens Lehmann, Erik Mannens, Sebastian Hellmann, and Rik Van de Walle. 2015. Assessing and Refining Mappings to RDF to Improve Dataset Quality. In Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, 133–149.
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Dimou, A., Kontokostas, D., Freudenberg, M., Verborgh, R., Lehmann, J., Mannens, E., Hellmann, S., & Van de Walle, R. (2015). Assessing and Refining Mappings to RDF to Improve Dataset Quality. In M. Arenas, O. Corcho, E. Simperl, M. Strohmaier, M. d’Aquin, K. Srinivas, P. Groth, M. Dumontier, J. Heflin, K. Thirunarayan, & S. Staab (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (Vol. 9367, pp. 133–149). Springer.
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A. Dimou et al., “Assessing and Refining Mappings to RDF to Improve Dataset Quality,” in Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, 2015, vol. 9367, pp. 133–149.
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Dimou, A., Kontokostas, D., Freudenberg, M., Verborgh, R., Lehmann, J., Mannens, E., Hellmann, S., Van de Walle, R.: Assessing and Refining Mappings to RDF to Improve Dataset Quality. In: Arenas, M., Corcho, O., Simperl, E., Strohmaier, M., d’Aquin, M., Srinivas, K., Groth, P., Dumontier, M., Heflin, J., Thirunarayan, K., and Staab, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference. pp. 133–149. Springer (2015).
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Dimou, Anastasia, et al. “Assessing and Refining Mappings to RDF to Improve Dataset Quality.” Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, edited by Marcelo Arenas et al., vol. 9367, Springer, 2015, pp. 133–49.

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