Big-Data handling as a metrological challenge beyond digitalisation: some reflections

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  • Franco Pavese (formerly) INRIM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21014/actaimeko.v13i4.1880

Keywords:

digitisation, digitalisation, Big Data, data scales, “dataism”, data quality, metrological guiding tools

Abstract

Digitalisation is considered one of the new technical tools in metrology as well; it is a general strategic issue concerning the future treatment of human knowledge in progress. Digitalisation has reached a dominant status also in data science, inducing a collation of an amount of “data”, i.e. of potential information, that is by now by far quantitatively enormously wider than ever before in the science history. It is called Big Data and it is widely recognized. However, it is also considered to be able to replace some of the traditional handling tools in the relevant scientific information, namely the metrological ones. It is called “dataism”.

This short paper is proposing some reflections on Big Data handling as an additional challenge also for metrology, with suggestions on possible improvement. In fact, Its regulatory field is considered to need taking into account and providing guidelines to the new concepts.

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Published

2024-12-18

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Vol. 13 No. 4 (2024)

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