TY - GEN
T1 - The semantic web in an SMS
AU - Valkering, Onno
AU - de Boer, Victor
AU - Lô, Gossa
AU - Blankendaal, Romy
AU - Schlobach, Stefan
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Many ICT applications and services, including those from the Semantic Web, rely on the Web for the exchange of data. This includes expensive server and network infrastructures. Most rural areas of developing countries are not reached by the Web and its possibilities, while at the same time the ability to share knowledge has been identified as a key enabler for development. To make widespread knowledge sharing possible in these rural areas, the notion of the Web has to be downscaled based on the specific low-resource infrastructure in place. In this paper, we introduce SPARQL over SMS, a solution for Web-like exchange of RDF data over cellular networks in which HTTP is substituted by SMS. We motivate and validate this through two use cases in West Africa. We present the design and implementation of the solution, along with a data compression method that combines generic compression strategies and strategies that use Semantic Web specific features to reduce the size of RDF before it is transferred over the low-bandwidth cellular network.
AB - Many ICT applications and services, including those from the Semantic Web, rely on the Web for the exchange of data. This includes expensive server and network infrastructures. Most rural areas of developing countries are not reached by the Web and its possibilities, while at the same time the ability to share knowledge has been identified as a key enabler for development. To make widespread knowledge sharing possible in these rural areas, the notion of the Web has to be downscaled based on the specific low-resource infrastructure in place. In this paper, we introduce SPARQL over SMS, a solution for Web-like exchange of RDF data over cellular networks in which HTTP is substituted by SMS. We motivate and validate this through two use cases in West Africa. We present the design and implementation of the solution, along with a data compression method that combines generic compression strategies and strategies that use Semantic Web specific features to reduce the size of RDF before it is transferred over the low-bandwidth cellular network.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84997514400
SN - 9783319490038
VL - 10024 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 697
EP - 712
BT - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 20th International Conference, EKAW 2016, Proceedings
PB - Springer/Verlag
T2 - 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2016
Y2 - 19 November 2016 through 23 November 2016
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