LOD2 Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

A paper describing the LOD2EU-funded (FP7) research project aiming to take the Web of Linked Data to the next level. Main research challenges: improve coherence and quality of data published on the Web, close the performance gap between relational and RDF data management, establish trust on the Linked Data Web and ... Stack and its application in LOD2′s Media & Publishing use case was accepted for presentation in the In-Use track of the International Semantic Web Conference 2012 in Boston (USA):

Managing the life-cycle of Linked Data with the LOD2 Stack, Sören Auer, Lorenz Bühmann, Jens Lehmann, Michael Hausenblas, Sebastian Tramp, Bert vanNuffelen, Pablo Mendes, Christian Dirschl, Robert Isele, Hugh Williams and Orri Erling

The acceptance rate of the in use track was only 22%. Also some other papers from LOD2 team members made it to the ISWC programme:

DEQA: Deep WebThe Deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, dark Web or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines. Mike Bergman, credited with coining the phrase, has said that searching on the Internet today can ... Extraction for Question Answering, Jens Lehmann, Tim Furche, Giovanni Grasso, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Christian Schallhart, Andrew Sellers, Christina Unger, Lorenz Bühmann, Daniel Gerber, Konrad Höffner, David Liu and Sören Auer

Link Discovery with Guaranteed Reduction Ratio in Affine Spaces with Minkowsky Measures, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

DeFacto – Deep Fact Validation, Jens Lehmann, Daniel Gerber, Mohamed Morsey and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Robust Runtime Optimization and Skew-Resistant Execution of Analytical SPARQL Queries on Pig, Spyros Kotoulas, Jacopo Urbani, Peter Boncz and Peter Mika