Thursday, March 18, 2010

Paper Summary - On Searching and Displaying RDF Data from the Web

A., H., and H., G. 2005. On searching and displaying RDF data
from the web. In Proceedings of Demos and Posters of the 2nd
European Semantic Web Conference.

This document describes an application built to show RDF in a user interface. It describes how it gathered the data and also a smushing technique it used. The goal was to determine if it was feasible to integrate data without an underlying ontology. They describe their challenges with the data in this paper.

The key points of this paper:


  1. To determine if it is possible to integrate data without using an underlying ontology to do so
  2. They describe their data retrieval process
  3. They describe how they smush data
  4. They describe their application and how they make this data available for a user interface


The paper is short and missing a lot of details. Though I referenced this in the "A Machine Learning Approach to Linking FOAF Instances" document, it really was just to give an example of a smushing process.

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