scholarly journals A Framework for Exploration and Visualization of SPARQL Endpoint Information

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-69
Author(s):  
Maria Krommyda
Keyword(s):  
Query Language ◽  
Sparql Query ◽  
Data Schema ◽  
Query Result ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Integrated Platform ◽  
Data Provision ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Resource Description

Widely accepted standards, such as the Resource Description Framework, have provided unified ways for data provision aiming to facilitate the exchange of information between machines. This information became of interest to a wider audience due to its volume and variety but the available formats are posing significant challenges to users with limited knowledge of the Semantic Web. The SPARQL query language alleviates this barrier by facilitating the exploration of this information and many data providers have created dedicated SPARQL endpoints for their data. Many efforts have been dedicated to the development of systems that will provide access and support the exploration of these endpoints in a semantically correct and user friendly way. The main challenge of such approaches is the diversity of the information contained in the endpoints, which renders holistic or schema specific solutions obsolete. We present here an integrated platform that supports the users to the querying, exploration and visualization of information contained in SPARQL endpoints. The platform handles each query result independently based only on its characteristics, offering an endpoint and data schema agnostic solution. This is achieved through a Decision Support System, developed based on a knowledge base containing information experimentally collected from many endpoints, that allows us to provide case-specific visualization strategies for SPARQL query results based exclusively on features extracted from the result.

scholarly journals LINKDALE: A LIGHTWEIGHT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR (GEOSPATIAL) LINKED DATA

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W8 ◽  
pp. 187-190
Author(s):  
S. Ronzhin ◽  
G. Bosch ◽  
E. Folmer ◽  
R. Lemmens
Keyword(s):  
Linked Data ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Process Integration ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Sparql Query ◽  
Design Consideration ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Resource Description

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Modern software tools for managing Linked Data are often designed for skilled users. Therefore, they cannot be used for education purposes because they require substantial a priori knowledge about the Resource Description Framework and the SPARQL query language. LinkDaLe is a single page application designed to teach students the concept of Linked Data and work with linked data at the same time. In the paper we showcase the interface and functionality of LinkDaLe by triplifying data on Geo4All member organizations. The application was built and evaluated within The Business Process Integration Lab, a master programme course in 2016 and 2017 years. Positive feedback from both students and teachers proved the relevance of the proposed design consideration. LinkDaLe showed usability working with domain specific data e.g. geospatial and logistic data.</p>

scholarly journals An E-Commerce Platform for Industrialized Construction Procurement Based on BIM and Linked Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2613
Author(s):  
Dandan He ◽  
Zhongfu Li ◽  
Chunlin Wu ◽  
Xin Ning
Keyword(s):  
Data Integration ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Resource Description Framework ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Product Data ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Resource Description

Industrialized construction has raised the requirements of procurement methods used in the construction industry. The rapid development of e-commerce offers efficient and effective solutions, however the large number of participants in the construction industry means that the data involved are complex, and problems arise related to volume, heterogeneity, and fragmentation. Thus, the sector lags behind others in the adoption of e-commerce. In particular, data integration has become a barrier preventing further development. Traditional e-commerce platform, which considered data integration for common product data, cannot meet the requirements of construction product data integration. This study aimed to build an information-integrated e-commerce platform for industrialized construction procurement (ICP) to overcome some of the shortcomings existing platforms. We proposed a platform based on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and linked data, taking an innovative approach to data integration. It uses industrialized construction technology to support product standardization, BIM to support procurement process, and linked data to connect different data sources. The platform was validated using a case study. With the development of an e-commerce ontology, industrialized construction component information was extracted from BIM models and converted to Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. Related information from different data sources was also converted to RDF format, and Simple Protocol and Resource Description Framework Query Language (SPARQL) queries were implemented. The platform provides a solution for the development of e-commerce platform in the construction industry.

scholarly journals Towards Interactive Analytics over RDF Graphs

Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria-Evangelia Papadaki ◽  
Nicolas Spyratos ◽  
Yannis Tzitzikas
Keyword(s):  
Query Language ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Aggregate Queries ◽  
Rdf Data ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Rdf Graphs ◽  
High Level ◽  
Resource Description ◽  
Functional Algebra ◽  
Continuous Accumulation

The continuous accumulation of multi-dimensional data and the development of Semantic Web and Linked Data published in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) bring new requirements for data analytics tools. Such tools should take into account the special features of RDF graphs, exploit the semantics of RDF and support flexible aggregate queries. In this paper, we present an approach for applying analytics to RDF data based on a high-level functional query language, called HIFUN. According to that language, each analytical query is considered to be a well-formed expression of a functional algebra and its definition is independent of the nature and structure of the data. In this paper, we investigate how HIFUN can be used for easing the formulation of analytic queries over RDF data. We detail the applicability of HIFUN over RDF, as well as the transformations of data that may be required, we introduce the translation rules of HIFUN queries to SPARQL and we describe a first implementation of the proposed model.

scholarly journals PRIOR ONTOLOGY SELECTION AND QUERY TRANSLATION FOR INFORMATION SEARCH

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 499
Author(s):  
Poornima N ◽  
Shivam Agrawal ◽  
Shivam Agrawal ◽  
Saleena B ◽  
Saleena B
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Resource Description Framework ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Retrieval Process ◽  
Query Translation ◽  
User Intention ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Ontology Selection ◽  
Resource Description

Objective: Most of the current search engines follow informal keyword based search. Finding the user intention and improving the relevancy of results are the major issues faced by the current traditional keyword based search. Targeting to solve the problems of traditional search and to boost the retrieval process, a framework for semantic based information retrieval is planned. Methods: Social and wine ontologies are used to find the user intention and retrieving it. User’s natural language queries are translated into SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and Resource Description Framework query language) query for finding related items from those ontologies.Results: The proposed method makes a significant improvement over traditional search in terms of some searches required for searching a particular number of pages using performance graph.Conclusion: Semantic based search can understand the user intention and gives better results than traditional search.

scholarly journals Synospecies, an application to reflect changes in taxonomic names based on a triple store based on taxonomic data liberated from publication 

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reto Gmür ◽  
Donat Agosti
Keyword(s):  
Query Language ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Individual Treatment ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Triple Store ◽  
Related Group ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Basic Vocabulary ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Machine Readable

Taxonomic treatments, sections of publications documenting the features or distribution of a related group of organisms (called a “taxon”, plural “taxa”) in ways adhering to highly formalized conventions, and published in scientific journals, shape our understanding of global biodiversity (Catapano 2019). Treatments are the building blocks of the evolving scientific consensus on taxonomic entities. The semantics of these treatments and their relationships are highly structured: taxa are introduced, merged, made obsolete, split, renamed, associated with specimens and so on. Plazi makes this content available in machine-readable form using Resource Description Framework (RDF) . RDF is the standard model for Linked Data and the Semantic Web. RDF can be exchanged in different formats (aka concrete syntaxes) such as RDF/XML or Turtle. The data model describes graph structures and relies on Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) , ontologies such as Darwin Core basic vocabulary are used to assign meaning to the identifiers. For Synospecies, we unite all treatments into one large knowledge graph, modelling taxonomic knowledge and its evolution with complete references to quotable treatments. However, this knowledge graph expresses much more than any individual treatment could convey because every referenced entity is linked to every other relevant treatment. On synospecies.plazi.org, we provide a user-friendly interface to find the names and treatments related to a taxon. An advanced mode allows execution of queries using the SPARQL query language.

Linked Data

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-113
Author(s):  
Leila Zemmouchi-Ghomari
Keyword(s):  
Linked Data ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
Data Resource ◽  
Simple Protocol ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
Promising Solution ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Resource Description ◽  
The Web

The data on the web is heterogeneous and distributed, which makes its integration a sine qua non-condition for its effective exploitation within the context of the semantic web or the so-called web of data. A promising solution for web data integration is the linked data initiative, which is based on four principles that aim to standardize the publication of structured data on the web. The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the essential aspects of this fairly recent and exciting field, including the model of linked data: resource description framework (RDF), its query language: simple protocol, and the RDF query language (SPARQL), the available means of publication and consumption of linked data, and the existing applications and the issues not yet addressed in research.

Storing massive Resource Description Framework (RDF) data: a survey

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongmin Ma ◽  
Miriam A. M. Capretz ◽  
Li Yan
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Resource Description Framework ◽  
Relational Databases ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Current State ◽  
Rdf Data ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Resource Description ◽  
Flexible Model ◽  
The Web

AbstractThe Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a flexible model for representing information about resources on the Web. As a W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Recommendation, RDF has rapidly gained popularity. With the widespread acceptance of RDF on the Web and in the enterprise, a huge amount of RDF data is being proliferated and becoming available. Efficient and scalable management of RDF data is therefore of increasing importance. RDF data management has attracted attention in the database and Semantic Web communities. Much work has been devoted to proposing different solutions to store RDF data efficiently. This paper focusses on using relational databases and NoSQL (for ‘not only SQL (Structured Query Language)’) databases to store massive RDF data. A full up-to-date overview of the current state of the art in RDF data storage is provided in the paper.

scholarly journals Using superimposed multidimensional schemas and OLAP patterns for RDF data analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Median Hilal ◽  
Christoph G. Schuetz ◽  
Michael Schrefl
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Query Languages ◽  
Sparql Query ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Rdf Data ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract The foundations for traditional data analysis are Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems that operate on multidimensional (MD) data. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) serves as the foundation for the publication of a growing amount of semantic web data still largely untapped by companies for data analysis. Most RDF data sources, however, do not correspond to the MD modeling paradigm and, as a consequence, elude traditional OLAP. The complexity of RDF data in terms of structure, semantics, and query languages renders RDF data analysis challenging for a typical analyst not familiar with the underlying data model or the SPARQL query language. Hence, conducting RDF data analysis is not a straightforward task. We propose an approach for the definition of superimposed MD schemas over arbitrary RDF datasets and show how to represent the superimposed MD schemas using well-known semantic web technologies. On top of that, we introduce OLAP patterns for RDF data analysis, which are recurring, domain-independent elements of data analysis. Analysts may compose queries by instantiating a pattern using only the MD concepts and business terms. Upon pattern instantiation, the corresponding SPARQL query over the source data can be automatically generated, sparing analysts from technical details and fostering self-service capabilities.

scholarly journals gst-store: Querying Large Spatiotemporal RDF Graphs

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Wang ◽  
Lei Zou ◽  
Dongyan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Query Language ◽  
Data Management System ◽  
Rdf Graph ◽  
Spatiotemporal Information ◽  
Simple Protocol ◽  
Rdf Data ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Query Algorithm ◽  
Rdf Graphs ◽  
Resource Description

Abstract The Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) query language allows users to issue a structural query over a resource description framework (RDF) graph. However, the lack of a spatiotemporal query language limits the usage of RDF data in spatiotemporal-oriented applications. As the spatiotemporal information continuously increases in RDF data, it is necessary to design an effective and efficient spatiotemporal RDF data management system. In this paper, we formally define the spatiotemporal information-integrated RDF data, introduce a spatiotemporal query language that extends the SPARQL language with spatiotemporal assertions to query spatiotemporal information-integrated RDF data, and design a novel index and the corresponding query algorithm. The experimental results on a large, real RDF graph integrating spatial and temporal information (> 180 million triples) confirm the superiority of our approach. In contrast to its competitors, gst-store outperforms by more than 20%-30% in most cases.

scholarly journals AN APPROACH TO EXTENDING QUERY SENTENCE FOR SEMANTIC ORIENTED SEARCH ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPH

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
TẠ DUY CÔNG CHIẾN
Keyword(s):  
Relational Databases ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Web Information Retrieval ◽  
Ontology Language ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Resource Description ◽  
Terminological Confusion

There are many applications related to semantic web, information retrieval, information extraction, and question answering applying ontologies in recent years. To avoid the conceptual and terminological confusion, an ontology is built as a taxonomy ontology which identifies and distinguishes concepts as well as terminology. It accomplishes this by specifying a set of generic concepts that characterizes the domain as well as their definitions and interrelationships. There are some methods to represent ontologies, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), databases etc. depending on the characteristic of data. RDF, OWL usually is used the cases when data structure is objects which the relationship among the objects is simple. But if the relationship among the objects is more complex, using databases for storing ontologies is an approach to be better. However, using relational databases do not sufficiently support the semantic orientated search by Structured Query Language (SQL) and the searching speed is slow. Therefore, this paper introduces an approach to extending query sentences for semantic oriented search on knowledge graph.

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