Linked Data-as-a-Service: The Semantic Web Redeployed

L.J. Rietveld, R. Verborgh, W.G.J. Beek, M. Vander Sande, S. Schlobach

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Abstract

Ad-hoc querying is crucial to access information from Linked Data, yet publishing queryable RDF datasets on the Web is not a trivial exercise. The most compelling argument to support this claim is that the Web contains hundreds of thousands of data documents, while only 260 queryable SPARQL endpoints are provided. Even worse, the SPARQL endpoints we do have are often unstable, may not comply with the standards, and may differ in supported features. In other words, hosting data online is easy, but publishing Linked Data via a queryable API such as SPARQL appears to be too difficult. As a consequence, in practice, there is no single uniform way to query the LOD Cloud today. In this paper, we therefore combine a large-scale Linked Data publication project (LOD Laundromat) with a low-cost server-side interface (Triple Pattern Fragments), in order to bridge the gap between the Web of downloadable data documents and the Web of live queryable data. The result is a repeatable, low-cost, open-source data publication process. To demonstrate its applicability, we made over 650,000
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web
Subtitle of host publicationLatest Advances and New Domains. 12th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2015 Portoroz, Slovenia, May 31 – June 4, 2015 Proceedings
EditorsFabien Gandon
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
Pages471-487
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9783319188188
ISBN (Print)9783319188171
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event12th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015) - Portoroz, Slovenia
Duration: 31 May 20154 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9088

Conference

Conference12th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015)
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityPortoroz
Period31/05/154/06/15

Keywords

  • API
  • Data publishing
  • Linked Data
  • Web Services

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