DATA QUALITY ON THE WEB: INTEGRATIVE REVIEW OF PUBLICATION GUIDELINES

ABSTRACT

The exponential increase of published data and the diversity of systems require the adoption of good practices to achieve quality indexes that enable discovery, access, and reuse. To identify good practices, an integrative review was used, as well as procedures from the ProKnow-C methodology. After applying the ProKnow-C procedures to the documents retrieved from the Web of Science, Scopus and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts databases, an analysis of 31 items was performed. This analysis allowed observing that in the last 20 years the guidelines for publishing open government data had a great impact on the Linked Data model implementation in several domains and currently the FAIR principles and the Data on the Web Best Practices are the most highlighted in the literature. These guidelines presents orientations in relation to various aspects for the publication of data in order to contribute to the optimization of quality, independent of the context in which they are applied. The CARE and FACT principles, on the other hand, although they were not formulated with the same objective as FAIR and the Best Practices, represent great challenges for information and technology scientists regarding ethics, responsibility, confidentiality, impartiality, security, and transparency of data.

Keywords:
Best practices; Data publishing on the Web; Linked Open Data; Data quality