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Creating knowledge out of interlinked data: making the web a data washing machine

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Sören AuerAuthors Info & Claims

WIMS '11: Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1988688.1988693

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Over the past 4 years, the semantic web activity has gained momentum with the widespread publishing of structured data as RDF. The Linked Data paradigm has therefore evolved from a practical research idea into a very promising candidate for addressing one of the biggest challenges in the area of the Semantic Web vision: the exploitation of the Web as a platform for data and information integration. To translate this initial success into a world-scale reality, a number of research challenges need to be addressed: the performance gap between relational and RDF data management has to be closed, coherence and quality of data published on the Web have to be improved, provenance and trust on the Linked Data Web must be established and generally the entrance barrier for data publishers and users has to be lowered. We discuss approaches for tackling these challenges and their integration into a mutual refinement cycle - the linked data 'washing machine'.

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Creating knowledge out of interlinked data: making the web a data washing machine
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Search engine architectures and scalability
      1. Distributed retrieval
      2. Peer-to-peer retrieval
  2. Information storage systems
    1. Storage architectures
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