[School-of-data] School-of-data Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

Thu May 2 15:35:42 UTC 2013

Dear Matan,

  I am not sure that this type of paper was what you intended, but here is a paper addressing definitions of datasets:
"Definitions of dataset in the scientific and technical literature" Renear, A.H., et al (2010)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/meet.14504701240/abstract;jsessionid=
EC5127E6833569675073381E42145628.d01t01?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

Best regards,
Melissa Cragin
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
National Science Foundation

On May 2, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Matan Rotman <matan.rotman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, thanks for the great feedback, I've learned much. I think that I'm looking to see how well adjusted the data is for the public use, mainly researchers, programmers, and NGO's. I've collected several sets of parameters from all the different answers and I think I'll try to synergize them into a one coherent and relevant set of parameters that would help measure quality according to my goal.
> 
> Matan  
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>>    1. Re: Help Defining Dataset Definition and Quality Parameters
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>> From: Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>
>> Subject: Re: [School-of-data] Help Defining Dataset Definition and
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>> Tom,
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>> You're right there. In the end the decision is whether the data is fit for
>> what you want to do. Also asked this question on our beta platform:
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>> http://ask.schoolofdata.org/question/1/how-to-measure-the-quality-of-data-in-a-dataportal/
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>> Michael
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:00:27AM -0400, Tom Morris wrote:
>> > I don't think you can measure quality in the abstract without knowing what
>> > you want to use the data for.  "Fitness for purpose" is one of the main
>> > ways to measure quality, so if you don't have a goal in mind any measure of
>> > "quality" is going to be rather arbitrary.  As an example, in some use
>> > cases misspellings might not hinder your use of the data at all as long as
>> > all the numbers were accurate while in others accurate spellings are
>> > critical for matching.
>> >
>> > Have you asked the users (and potential users) of the data what quality
>> > metrics are important to them?  They're the ones who count.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Matan Rotman <matan.rotman at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hello all,
>> > >
>> > > My name is Matan Rotman, and I'm a student at Hebrew University majoring
>> > > Political Science. As a part of my studying, I'm writing a paper that tries
>> > > to understand whether the Israel open data program is efficient
>> > > (Collaberative-wise), and if not, why not (hence, why wouldn't
>> > > administrative dept. won't cooperate with the program). The first thing I
>> > > need to do for that, though, is to understand if the datasets that are on
>> > > the website are of quality or not. As i'm not a technical guy, I could use
>> > > some help understanding what would be considered as the definition of a
>> > > dataset (hopefully, as particular as possible), and more important, I could
>> > > really use for some help with defining quality parameters so I could
>> > > measure the quality of the different files and sets uploaded.
>> > >
>> > > The website is at http://data.gov.il (all in Hebrew though), and I'd love
>> > > any help on the subject possible
>> > >
>> > > P.S
>> > > I hope this is the right place to ask, and I'm going to ask also at Open
>> > > government mailing list, so I apologize if you get my message twice.
>> > >
>> > > Best Regards,
>> > > Matan
>> > >
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