Workshop: Data Quality in Era of Big Data

The center where I work organizes a workshop of possible interest to many who work with data. Scholarships are available.

Data Quality in Era of Big Data

Bloomington, Indiana

28-29 September 2016

http://d2i.indiana.edu/mbdh

Throughout the history of modern scholarship, the exchange of scholarly data was undertaken through personal interactions among scholars or through highly curated data archives. In either case, implicit or explicit provenance mechanisms gave a relatively high degree of insurance of the quality of the data. However, the ubiquity of the web and mobile digital culture has produced disruptive new forms of data. We need to ask ourselves what we know about the data and what we can trust. Failure to answer these questions endangers the integrity of the science produced from these data.

The workshop will examine questions of quality:

·        Citizen science data

·        Health records

·        Integrity

·        Completeness; boundary conditions

·        Instrument quality

·        Data trustworthiness

·        Data provenance

·        Trust in data publishing

The 2 day workshop begins with a half day of tutorials.  The main workshop begins early afternoon on 28 September and continuing to noon on the 29 September.  With sufficient interest, there may be another training session following noon conclusion of the main workshop on 29 September.

Early Career Travel Funds:

Travel funds are available for early career researchers, scholars, and practitioners http://d2i.indiana.edu/mbdh/#scholarships

Important Dates:

·        Workshop:  Sep 28-29, 2016

·        Deadline for requesting early career travel funds:  Sep 9, 2016 midnight EDT

·        Notification of travel funding:  Sep 13, 2016

·        Registration deadline:  Sep 19, 2016

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Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:  Beth Plale, Indiana University

Program Committee

Carl Lagoze, University of Michigan, chair

Devan Donaldson, Indiana University

H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan

Xiaozhong Liu, Indiana University

Jill Minor, Indiana University

Val Pentchev, Indiana University

Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University

Early Career Chairs

Devan Donaldson, Indiana University 

Xiaozhong Liu, Indiana University

Local Arrangements Chair

Jill Minor, Indiana University