Great hopes are cherished for the Semantic Web. It is intended to make linking data as easy as HTML makes linking Web documents. For the cultural heritage world seamless linking of related but independently curated datasets has long been a dream. This paper looks at the practical and theoretical issues involved in converting data to RDF so that it can become part of the Semantic Web. I propose ...

Record linkage involves merging records in large, noisy databases to remove duplicate entities. It has become an important area because of its widespread occurrence in bibliometrics, public health, official statistics production, political science, and beyond. Traditional linkage methods directly linking records to one another are computationally infeasible as the number of records grows. As a ...

Data Quality has many dimensions one of which is accuracy. Accuracy is usually compromised by errors accidentally or intensionally introduced in a database system. These errors result in inconsistent, incomplete, or erroneous data elements. For example, a small variation in the representation of a data object, produces a unique instantiation of the object being represented. In order to improve ...

This paper discusses recent research on methods for estimating configuration parameters for the Matrix Comparator used for linking unstandardized or heterogeneously standardized references. The matrix comparator computes the aggregate similarity between the tokens (words) in a pair of references. The two most critical parameters for the matrix comparator for obtaining the best linking results a...

This essay reviews the state of knowledge about the connection of climate change and development aid in a globalizing world and makes three contributions. First, it opts for an integrated treatment of short-term aid, striving for the urgent fulfillment of basic human needs, and long-term aid, striving for economic development and self-dependence. Against the background of environmental degradat...

Record linkage is an emerging research area which is required by various real-world applications to identify which records in different data sources refer to the same real-world entities. Often privacy concerns and restrictions prevent the use of traditional record linkage applications across different organizations. Linking records in situations where no private or confidential information can...

In this paper we describe past experience and outline current directions in performing record linkage over large genealogical databases. 1. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION Record linkage is the problem of identifying multiple records that refer to the same real-world entity. In genealogical databases, it is the problem of identifying when individuals situated in different pedigrees refer to the sam...

Accurate and efficient record linkage is an open challenge of particular relevance to Australian Government Agencies, who recognise that so-called wicked social problems are best tackled by forming partnerships founded on large-scale data fusion.Names and addresses are the most common attributes on which data from different government agencies can be linked. In this paper, we focus on the probl...

We present an efficient method to segment large 3d images that takes the whole 3-dimensional structure into account. We use a Union-Find data structure to record and maintain the necessary informations during the segmentation process. This structure leads to a volume labelling and facilitates interactive process by linking directly voxels to the volume they belong to. Moreover the global integr...

The role of data resources in today's business environment is multi-faceted. Primarily, they support the operational needs of an organization or a company. Secondarily, they can be used for decision support and management. The quality of the data, used to support the operational needs, is usually below the quality required for decision support and management. Recent advances in information syst...