Quality Assurance of Government Databases

Data cleaning is a vital process that ensures the quality of data stored in real-world databases. The process of identifying the record pairs that represe nt the same entity (du- plicate records), commonly known as record linkage , is one of the essential elements of data cleaning. Digital government serves as an emerging area for database research, such as database management, data integration, data cleaning, etc. In thi s demo, we present a record linkage tool as part of a digital government web service . This demo serves as a framework for incorporating data quality tools with digital governm ent web services.