Data Quality in the Semantic Web

Abstract

The Semantic Web is an initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with the vision to evolve the traditional Web, which is essentially a graph of interlinked documents, into a “Web of Data” (Berners-Lee et al., 2001; cf. W3C, 2013). One of the major goals of the Semantic Web is the supply of machine-interpretable data at Web scale to gain a higher degree of automation and to facilitate more complete processing of information (cf. Berners-Lee et al., 2001). For example, if the prices of all consumer products were published in a machine-readable format and structure throughout the whole Web, then more complete price comparisons at global scale would be possible with minimal manual effort.