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Information growth asks Public Administrations for an effective control over their information asset. Furthermore, having a global representation of the core concepts of such an asset implies to manage large set of conceptual schemas. At the state of the art, the use of repositories of conceptual schemas aims to provide a structured, global and scalable representation of the core concepts managed in complex large scale information systems. In this paper we discuss several quality properties of repositories, analyzing them within a real, large scale experience.
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Batini, C., Comerio, M., Viscusi, G. (2012). Managing Quality of Large Set of Conceptual Schemas in Public Administration: Methods and Experiences. In: Abelló, A., Bellatreche, L., Benatallah, B. (eds) Model and Data Engineering. MEDI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7602. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33609-6_5
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