A tool for retrieving, selecting and evaluating open data quality
CONTEXT
- The volume of data created by Public Administrations is expected to grow exponentially
- Currently, reuse is still too complicated because of the unavailability of proper and exhaustive metadata
PROBLEMS
- It takes a long time on average to access to datasets that are eventually useless for research purposes
- Search engines return the totality of results, without skimming regarding to size or content (eg. empty datasets)
- Examining the selected datasets would be a time-consuming and frustrating activity if you discovered that data quality is very poor
SOLUTION
ODE: Open Data Explorer is a smart search engine that allows you to
- identify only the valuable datasets for analysis
- have immediate information about the size of the file (highlighting through a warning if it is empty)
- make a first qualitative assessment
- promote the social dimension in order to share and identify quality datasets
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