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Reliability analyses of Open Government Data

Reliability analyses of Open Government Data
Reliability analyses of Open Government Data
Public authorities are increasingly sharing sets of open data. These data are often preprocessed (e.g. smoothened, aggregated) to avoid to expose sensible data, while trying to preserve their reliability. We present two procedures for tackling the lack of methods for measuring the open data reliability. The first procedure is based on a comparison between open and closed data, and the second derives reliability estimates from the analysis of open data only. We evaluate these two procedures over data from the data.police.uk website and from the Hampshire Police Constabulary in the UK. With the first procedure we show that the open data reliability is high despite preprocessing, while with the second one we show how it is possible to achieve interesting results concerning the open data reliability estimation when analyzing open data alone.
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Ceolin, Davide, Moreau, Luc, O'Hara, Kieron, Schreiber, Guus, Sackley, Alisatair, Fokkink, Wan, van Hage, Willem Robert and Shadbolt, Nigel (2013) Reliability analyses of Open Government Data. Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop at ISWC 2013, Sydney, Australia. 21 - 25 Oct 2013.

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Abstract

Public authorities are increasingly sharing sets of open data. These data are often preprocessed (e.g. smoothened, aggregated) to avoid to expose sensible data, while trying to preserve their reliability. We present two procedures for tackling the lack of methods for measuring the open data reliability. The first procedure is based on a comparison between open and closed data, and the second derives reliability estimates from the analysis of open data only. We evaluate these two procedures over data from the data.police.uk website and from the Hampshire Police Constabulary in the UK. With the first procedure we show that the open data reliability is high despite preprocessing, while with the second one we show how it is possible to achieve interesting results concerning the open data reliability estimation when analyzing open data alone.

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Published date: 22 October 2013
Venue - Dates: Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop at ISWC 2013, Sydney, Australia, 2013-10-21 - 2013-10-25
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 357160
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/357160
ISBN: 364241334X
PURE UUID: 646850b0-44bc-4c2b-a9ae-1ea8b3f766e8
ORCID for Luc Moreau: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-120X
ORCID for Kieron O'Hara: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9051-4456

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Date deposited: 20 Sep 2013 13:06
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: Davide Ceolin
Author: Luc Moreau ORCID iD
Author: Kieron O'Hara ORCID iD
Author: Guus Schreiber
Author: Alisatair Sackley
Author: Wan Fokkink
Author: Willem Robert van Hage
Author: Nigel Shadbolt

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