Viewing the semantic web through RVL lenses

  • Authors:

  • Aimilia Magkanaraki;Val Tannen;Vassilis Christophides;Dimitris Plexousakis

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110 Heraklion, Greece and Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, GR 71409, Heraklion, Greec ...;Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd Street, Pennsylvania, PA 19104-6989, USA;Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110 Heraklion, Greece and Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, GR 71409, Heraklion, Greec ...;Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110 Heraklion, Greece and Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, GR 71409, Heraklion, Greec ...

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Personalized access and content syndication involving diverse conceptual representations of information resources are two of the key challenges of Semantic Web (SW) applications. In this paper, we investigate how these goals can be achieved using view definition primitives over RDF/S bases. We introduce a full-fledged view definition language, RVL, for creating virtual RDF/S resource descriptions and schemas from (meta)classes, properties, and resource descriptions, and we illustrate how RVL views can be composed with structured RDF/S queries expressed in a query language like RQL, by means of an internal logical framework capturing the semantics of the RDF/S model, RQL queries and RVL views.