Luzzu Quality Metric Language -- A DSL for Linked Data Quality Assessment

Abstract

The steadily growing number of linked open datasets brought about a number of reservations amongst data consumers with regard to the datasets' quality. Quality assessment requires significant effort and consideration, including the definition of data quality metrics and a process to assess datasets based on these definitions. Luzzu is a quality assessment framework for linked data that allows domain-specific metrics to be plugged in. LQML offers notations, abstractions and expressive power, focusing on the representation of quality metrics. It provides expressive power for defining sophisticated quality metrics. Its integration with Luzzu enables their efficient processing and execution and thus the comprehensive assessment of extremely large datasets in a streaming way. We also describe a novel ontology that enables the reuse, sharing and querying of such definitions. Finally, we evaluate the proposed DSL against the cognitive dimensions of notation framework.