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| Slides | 23.10.2014 |  |
Material
[S1] Introduction to Linked Data and Its Lifecycle on the Web State of the LOD cloud. Link.
[S2] Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space. Link.
[S3] Linked Data - The Story So Far. Link.
[S4] State of the LOD cloud. Link.
Topics
1. Extraction of data (min 23) (1 student)
The task of establishing a mapping from information represented in unstructured form or a structured representation into RDF.[P1][2011, 18 pages] Roberto De Virgilio: RDFa Based Annotation of Web Pages through Keyphrases Extraction. OTM Conferences 2011:644-661 Link
[P2] [2012, 18 pages] Dimitrios-Emmanuel Spanos, Periklis Stavrou, Nikolas Mitrou: Bringing relational databases into the Semantic Web: A survey. Semantic Web (SEMWEB) 3(2):169-209 Link
[P3] [2014, 5 pages] RML: A Generic Language for Integrated RDF Mappings of Heterogeneous Data by Anastasia Dimou, Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, and Rik Van de Walle Link
2. Designing a dataset (min 22) (2 students)
Good practices and frameworks for designing new datasets[P1] [2013, 28 pages] Thomas Baker, Sean Bechhofer, Antoine Isaac, Alistair Miles, Guus Schreiber, Ed Summers: Key choices in the design of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). J. Web Sem. (WS) 20:35-49 Link
[P2] [2010, 16 pages] Harry Halpin, Patrick Hayes, James McCusker, Deborah Mcguinness, and Henry Thompson. When owl:sameas isn’t the same: An analysis of identity in linked data. In Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17746-0_20 23. Link
[P3] [2008, 6 pages] Tim Berners-Lee, Lalana Kagal: The Fractal Nature of the Semantic Web. AI Magazine (AIM) 29(3):29-34 Link
[P4] [2008, Web, counts as more than 22 pages] Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Jon Phipps, Cornell University Library. Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies Link
[P5] [2008, 5 pages] Paul Miller, Rob Styles, Tom Heath: Open Data Commons, a License for Open Data. LDOW Link
3. Linking Discovery (min 22) (1 student)
The task of establishing typed links between entities contained in knowledge bases.[P1] [2011, 6 pages] Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Soeren Auer: LIMES - A Time-Efficient Approach for Large-Scale Link Discovery on the Web of Data. IJCAI 2011:2312-2317 Link
[P2] [2009, 16 pages]Julius Volz, Christian Bizer, Martin Gaedke, Georgi Kobilarov: Discovering and Maintaining Links on the Web of Data. International Semantic Web Conference 2009:650-665 Link
4. Enrichment (min 26) (1 student)
The (semi-)automatic extension of knowledge base schema to increase the expressiveness and semantic richness of a knowledge base.[P1] [2012, 15 pages] Lorenz Buehmann, Jens Lehmann: Universal OWL Axiom Enrichment for Large Knowledge Bases. EKAW 2012:57-71 Link
[P2] [2011, 11 pages] Jens Lehmann, Soeren Auer, Lorenz Buehmann, Sebastian Tramp: Class expression learning for ontology engineering. J. Web Sem. (WS) 9(1):71-81 Link
5. Linked Data Quality (min 22) (2 students)
Approaches for assessing the data quality of LOD[P1] [2014, 10 pages] Dimitris Kontokostas, Patrick Westphal, Soeren Auer, Sebastian Hellmann, Jens Lehmann, Roland Cornelissen, Amrapali Zaveri: Test-driven evaluation of linked data quality. WWW 2014:747-758 Link
[P2] [2013, 33 pages] Amrapali Zaveri, Anisa Rula, Andrea Maurino, Ricardo Pietrobon, Jens Lehmann, Soeren Auer. Quality Assessment Methodologies for Linked Open Data. Link
[P3] [2013, 12 pages] Michael Schmidt, Georg Lausen: Pleasantly Consuming Linked Data with RDF Data Descriptions. COLD Link
[P4] [2012, 15 pages] Christophe Guéret , Paul Groth , Claus Stadler , Jens Lehmann. Assessing Linked Data Mappings using Network Measures. Link
6. Consuming Linked Data (min 20) (3 students)
How applications use the Web of Data[P1] [2014, 10 pages] Ruben Verborgh, Miel Vander Sande, Pieter Colpaert, Sam Coppens, Erik Mannens, and Rik Van de Walle. Web-Scale Querying through Linked Data Fragments. Link
[P2] [2013, 26 pages] Carlos Buil-Aranda, Marcelo Arenas, Oscar Corcho, Axel Polleres. Federating queries in SPARQL 1.1: Syntax, semantics and evaluation. Link
[P3] [2011, 16 pages] Andreas Schwarte, Peter Haase, Katja Hose, Ralf Schenkel, Michael Schmidt: FedX: Optimization Techniques for Federated Query Processing on Linked Data. International Semantic Web Conference 2011:601-616 Link
[P4] [2011, 12 pages] Olaf Goerlitz, Steffen Staab: SPLENDID: SPARQL Endpoint Federation Exploiting VOID Descriptions. COLD Link
[P5] [2009, 20 pages] Muhammad Saleem, Yasar Khan, Ali Hasnain, Ivan Ermilov, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo: A Fine-Grained Evaluation of SPARQL Endpoint Federation Systems Link
[P6] [2010, 10 pages] Olaf Hartig, Andreas Langegger: A Database Perspective on Consuming Linked Data on the Web. Datenbank-Spektrum (DBSK) 10(2):57-66 Link
[P7] [2005, 21 pages] Jeremy J. Carroll, Christian Bizer, Patrick J. Hayes, Patrick Stickler: Named graphs. J. Web Sem. (WS) 3(4):247-267 Link
7. Future Challenges (min 16) (2 students)
[P1] [2014, 3 pages] Aidan Hogan, Claudio Gutierrez: Paths towards the Sustainable Consumption of Semantic Data on the Web. AMW. Link
[P2] [2013, 16 pages] Carlos Buil-Aranda, Aidan Hogan, Juergen Umbrich, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche. SPARQL Web-Querying Infrastructure: Ready for Action? Link
[P3] [2010, 10 pages] Aidan Hogan, Andreas Harth, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker, Axel Polleres: Weaving the Pedantic Web. LDOW Link
[P4] [2010, 7 pages] Soeren Auer: Creating knowledge out of interlinked data: making the web a data washing machine. WIMS Link