URI identity management for semantic web data integration and linkage

  • Authors:

  • Afraz Jaffri;Hugh Glaser;Ian Millard

  • Affiliations:

  • Dependable Systems and Software Engineering Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton;Dependable Systems and Software Engineering Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton;Dependable Systems and Software Engineering Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

  • Venue:
  • OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The Semantic Web vision involves the production and use of large amounts of RDF data. There have been recent initiatives amongst the Semantic Web community, in particular the Linking Open Data activity and our own ReSIST project, to publish large amounts of RDF that are both interlinked and dereferenceable. The proliferation of such data gives rise to millions of URIs for non-information resources such as people, places and abstract things. Frequently, different data providers will mint different URIs for the same resource, giving rise to the problem of coreference. This paper describes the phenomenon of coreference, where it occurs in other disciplines and how it is relevant to the Semantic Web. We propose a 'Consistent Reference Service' for URI identity management and describe how this is being used in the infrastructure of a scalable Semantic Web system.