Identifying and weighting integration hypotheses on open data platforms
Julian Eberius, Katrin Braunschweig, Maik Thiele, Wolfgang Lehner · 2012
Open data platforms such as data.gov or opendata.socrata. com provide a huge amount of valuable information, publicly available to anyone. This data has the potential to drive innovation and lead to a more democratic and transparent society. Still, the platforms it is offered on have some unique problems: Their free-for-all nature, the lack of publishing standards and the multitude of domains and authors represented on these platforms lead to new integration and standardization problems, such as duplicated or partitioned datasets.