Abstract:

The present paper treats an important aspect which concerns semantic web databases. Our research motivation is given by the problems that semantic web databases raise for the quality characteristic. We try to identify which are the main criteria to take into consideration when building a semantic web database. The research methodology consists in approaching the current literature, discussing the main practical aspects resulted from tests and analysis and treating the problem of quality in respect with a number of characteristics related to the semantic model. The main findings and implications are in the area of testing this quality. We start the paper with an introduction, we continue by presenting the research design, we discuss the semantic model, the main characteristics of a semantic web database in terms of quality and testing.