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Turki H, Jemielniak D, Hadj Taieb MA, Labra Gayo JE, Ben Aouicha M, Banat M, Shafee T, Prud’hommeaux E, Lubiana T, Das D, Mietchen D. Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata. PeerJ Comput Sci 2022; 8:e1085. [PMID: 36262159 PMCID: PMC9575845 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Urgent global research demands real-time dissemination of precise data. Wikidata, a collaborative and openly licensed knowledge graph available in RDF format, provides an ideal forum for exchanging structured data that can be verified and consolidated using validation schemas and bot edits. In this research article, we catalog an automatable task set necessary to assess and validate the portion of Wikidata relating to the COVID-19 epidemiology. These tasks assess statistical data and are implemented in SPARQL, a query language for semantic databases. We demonstrate the efficiency of our methods for evaluating structured non-relational information on COVID-19 in Wikidata, and its applicability in collaborative ontologies and knowledge graphs more broadly. We show the advantages and limitations of our proposed approach by comparing it to the features of other methods for the validation of linked web data as revealed by previous research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Houcemeddine Turki
- Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Department of Management in Networked and Digital Societies, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Masovia, Poland
| | - Mohamed A. Hadj Taieb
- Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
| | - Jose E. Labra Gayo
- Web Semantics Oviedo (WESO) Research Group, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
| | - Mohamed Ben Aouicha
- Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
| | - Mus’ab Banat
- Faculty of Medicine, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
| | - Thomas Shafee
- La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Eric Prud’hommeaux
- World Wide Web Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
| | - Tiago Lubiana
- Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - Diptanshu Das
- Institute of Child Health (ICH), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| | - Daniel Mietchen
- Ronin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America
- Department of Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
- School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
- Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), Jena, Germany
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