The Relevance of Open Data Principles for the Web of Data
Open data has been improving both publishing platforms and the consumers-oriented process over the years, providing better openness policies and transparency. Although organizations have tried to open their data, the enrichment of their resources through the Web of Data has been decreasing. Linked d...
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| author | Jhon Francined Herrera-Cubides Paulo Alonso Gaona-García Carlos Enrique Montenegro-Marin Salvador Sánchez-Alonso |
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| description | Open data has been improving both publishing platforms and the consumers-oriented process over the years, providing better openness policies and transparency. Although organizations have tried to open their data, the enrichment of their resources through the Web of Data has been decreasing. Linked data has been suffering from notable difficulties in different stages of its life cycle, becoming over the years less attractive to users. According to that, we decided to explore how the lack of some opening requirements affects the decline of the Web of Data. This paper presents the Web of Data radiography, analyzing the governmental domain as a case study. The results indicate that it is necessary to strengthen the data opening process to improve resource enrichment on the Web and have better datasets. These improvements describe that open data must be public, accessible (in machine-readable formats), described (use of robust, granular metadata), reusable (made available under an open license), complete (published in primary forms), and timely (preserve the value of the data). The implementation of these characteristics would enhance the availability and reuse of datasets. Besides, organizations must understand that opening and enriching their data require a completely new approach, and they have to pay special attention and control to this project, generally by putting money, the commitment by management at all levels, and lots of time. On the contrary, given the magnitude of availability and reuse problems identified in the opening and enrichment data process, it is believed that the Web of Data model would inevitably lose the interest it aroused at the beginning if not addressed immediately by data quality, openness, and enrichment issues. Besides, its use would be restricted to a few particular niches or would even disappear altogether. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c9fe7ec05db64cc3928c7359d9cdcebd2025-08-20T02:19:37ZengWileyJournal of Electrical and Computer Engineering2090-01552023-01-01202310.1155/2023/4854965The Relevance of Open Data Principles for the Web of DataJhon Francined Herrera-Cubides0Paulo Alonso Gaona-García1Carlos Enrique Montenegro-Marin2Salvador Sánchez-Alonso3Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasUniversidad de AlcaláOpen data has been improving both publishing platforms and the consumers-oriented process over the years, providing better openness policies and transparency. Although organizations have tried to open their data, the enrichment of their resources through the Web of Data has been decreasing. Linked data has been suffering from notable difficulties in different stages of its life cycle, becoming over the years less attractive to users. According to that, we decided to explore how the lack of some opening requirements affects the decline of the Web of Data. This paper presents the Web of Data radiography, analyzing the governmental domain as a case study. The results indicate that it is necessary to strengthen the data opening process to improve resource enrichment on the Web and have better datasets. These improvements describe that open data must be public, accessible (in machine-readable formats), described (use of robust, granular metadata), reusable (made available under an open license), complete (published in primary forms), and timely (preserve the value of the data). The implementation of these characteristics would enhance the availability and reuse of datasets. Besides, organizations must understand that opening and enriching their data require a completely new approach, and they have to pay special attention and control to this project, generally by putting money, the commitment by management at all levels, and lots of time. On the contrary, given the magnitude of availability and reuse problems identified in the opening and enrichment data process, it is believed that the Web of Data model would inevitably lose the interest it aroused at the beginning if not addressed immediately by data quality, openness, and enrichment issues. Besides, its use would be restricted to a few particular niches or would even disappear altogether.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/4854965 |
| spellingShingle | Jhon Francined Herrera-Cubides Paulo Alonso Gaona-García Carlos Enrique Montenegro-Marin Salvador Sánchez-Alonso The Relevance of Open Data Principles for the Web of Data Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| title | The Relevance of Open Data Principles for the Web of Data |
| title_full | The Relevance of Open Data Principles for the Web of Data |
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| title_short | The Relevance of Open Data Principles for the Web of Data |
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