PUBLICATION
Discovering and Maintaining Links on the Web of Data
Type
Conference Paper
Year
2009
Authors
Julius Volz
Christian Bizer
Georgi Kobilarov
Research Area
Intelligent Information Management
Event
8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Research Track
Published in
Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-642-04929-3
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Abstract
The Web of Data is built upon two simple ideas: Employ the RDF data model to publish structured data on the Web and to create explicit data links between entities within different data sources. This paper presents the Silk Linking Framework, a toolkit for discovering and maintaining data links between Web data sources. Silk consists of three components: 1. A link discovery engine, which computes links between data sources based on a declarative specification of the conditions that entities must fulfill in order to be interlinked; 2. A tool for evaluating the generated data links in order to fine-tune the linking specification; 3. A protocol for maintaining data links between continuously changing data sources. The protocol allows data sources to exchange both linksets as well as detailed change information and enables continuous link recomputation. The interplay of all the components is demonstrated within a life science use case.
Reference
Volz, Julius; Bizer, Christian; Gaedke, Martin; Kobilarov, Georgi: Discovering and Maintaining Links on the Web of Data. Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), pp. 650-665, 2009.
