Print Email Facebook Twitter The potential of metadata for linked open data and its value for users and publishers Title The potential of metadata for linked open data and its value for users and publishers Author Zuiderwijk, A.M.G. Jeffery, K.G. Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department ISS Date 2012-12-21 Abstract Public and private organizations increasingly release their data to gain benefits such as transparency and economic growth. The use of these open data can be supported and stimulated by providing considerable metadata (data about the data), including discovery, contextual and detailed metadata. In this paper we argue that metadata are key enablers for the effective use of Linked Open Data (LOD). We illustrate the potential of metadata by 1) presenting an overview of advantages and disadvantages of metadata derived from literature, 2) presenting metadata requirements for LOD architectures derived from literature, workshops and a questionnaire, 3) describing a LOD metadata architecture that meets the requirements and 4) showing examples of the application of this architecture in the ENGAGE project. The paper shows that using metadata with the appropriate metadata architecture can yield considerable benefits for LOD publication and use, including improving find ability, accessibility, storing, preservation, analysing, comparing, reproducing, finding inconsistencies, correct interpretation, visualizing, linking data, assessing and ranking the quality of data and avoiding unnecessary duplication of data. The Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) can be used to build the metadata architecture and achieve the advantages. Subject metadatalinked open dataLODopen datametadataarchitecturerequirementselementsCERIF To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d7884462-abde-48f9-82ea-6cac583aa08e Publisher JeDEM ISSN 2075-9517 Source http://www.jedem.org/article/view/138 Source JeDEM - e-Journal of e-Democracy and Open Government, 4(2)2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c)2012 CC-BY and The Authors Files PDF Zuiderwijk_Jeffery__Janss ... ishers.pdf 456.54 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d7884462-abde-48f9-82ea-6cac583aa08e/datastream/OBJ/view