Instilling Trust and Confidence in a Data Driven Economy - Preliminary Design of a Data Certification Scheme

this paper presents the preliminary design of aData Certification scheme for data providers and users to betterunderstand the opportunities and restrictions possessed by openand commercial datasets. The proposed Data Certificationscheme employs a common language to describe different dataattributes such as accuracy, quality, the amount of support canreasonably expect from data providers, the legal restrictions onlicensing and rights, so the data users are able to distinguish theamount of efforts needed to process the dataset.