BI Seminar #38: A Fitness-for-use Approach for Biodiversity Data Quality Assessment and Management
Channel: A. Townsend Peterson
Date: 2018-08-08

Abstract: The increasing availability of digitized biodiversity data worldwide has raised concerns related to the "fitness for use" of such data and the impact of data quality on the outcomes derived from public open data. In this talk, we will present some approaches and efforts to tackle these global issues, with focus on data consumers point of view, where the quality is determined by the data fitness for use. We will discuss a consistent approach to assess and manage data quality based on a conceptual framework, which is in progress in the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) community. Also, we will address how this framework can support the definition of the meaning of data quality in a given context and how to describe the status of quality of data in this context, in order to help data users to judge the data fitness for their use and to assist data owners to improve the quality of their data.

Allan Koch Veiga, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
University of São Paulo (USP)
School of Engineering (Poli)
Department of Computing and Digital Systems Engineering (PCS)
Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing (BioComp)