Paper Info
Title
A Conceptual Quality Framework for Volunteered Geographic Information
Abstract
The assessment of the quality of volunteered geographic information VGI is cornerstone to understand the fitness for purpose of datasets in many application domains. While most analyses focus on geometric and positional quality, only sporadic attention has been devoted to the interpretation of the data, i.e., the communication process through which consumers try to reconstruct the meaning of information intended by its producers. Interpretability is a notoriously ephemeral, culturally rooted, and context-dependent property of the data that concerns the conceptual quality of the vocabularies, schemas, ontologies, and documentation used to describe and annotate the geographic features of interest. To operationalize conceptual quality in VGI, we propose a multi-faceted framework that includes accuracy, granularity, completeness, consistency, compliance, and richness, proposing proxy measures for each dimension. The application of the framework is illustrated in a case study on a European sample of OpenStreetMap, focused specifically on conceptual compliance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-23374-1_5
COSIT
Keywords
Field
DocType
Data quality,Interpretability,Conceptual quality,Volunteered geographic information
Ontology (information science),Data mining,Interpretability,Data quality,Computer science,Knowledge management,Volunteered geographic information,Operationalization,Documentation,Schema (psychology),Cornerstone
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9368
0302-9743
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.58
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Ballatore118913.99
Alexander Zipf226924.52