DC proposal: Towards linked data assessment and linking temporal facts

Since the Linked Data is continuously growing on the Web, the quality of overall data can rapidly degrade over time. The research proposed here deals with the quality assessment in the Linked Data and the temporal linking techniques. First, we conduct an in-depth study of appropriate dimensions and their respectively metrics by defining a data quality framework that evaluates, along these dimensions, linked published data on the Web. Second, since the assessment and improvement of the Linked Data quality such as accuracy or the resolution of heterogeneities is performed through record linkage techniques, we propose an extended technique that apply time in similarity computation which can improve over traditional linkage techniques. This paper describes the core problem, presents the proposed approach, reports on initial results, and lists planned future tasks. © 2011 Springer-Verlag