Conceptual modeling of prosopographic databases integrating quality dimensions

Abstract

Prosopographic databases, which allow the study of social groups through their bibliography, are used today by a significant number of historians. Computerization has allowed intensive and large-scale exploitation of these databases. The modeling of these proposopographic databases has given rise to several data models. An important problem is to ensure a level of quality of the stored information. In this article , we propose a generic data model allowing to describe most of the existing prosopographic databases and to enrich them by integrating several quality concepts such as uncertainty, reliability, accuracy or completeness.

Keywords

• conceptual modeling
• prosopographical database
• quality
• conceptual modelling
• prosopographical database
• quality
• uncertainty
• mapping process
• acm: h.: information systems
• [info]computer science [cs]
• [info.info-oh]computer science [cs]/other [cs.oh]