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Publishing, Harmonizing and Consuming Census Data: the CEDAR Project
journal contribution
posted on 2014-09-14, 14:46 authored by Albert Meroño-PeñuelaAlbert Meroño-Peñuela, Christophe GuéretChristophe Guéret, Ashkan Ashkpour, Andrea ScharnhorstAndrea ScharnhorstThis paper discusses the use of Linked Open Data to increase complex tabular datasets quality, machineprocessability, and ease of format transformation. We illustrate this application with the historical Dutch censuses: census data is open, but notoriously difficult to compare, aggregate and query in a uniform fashion. We describe an approach to achieve these goals, emphasizing open problems and tradeoffs.