Implementation and Evaluation of a Distributed RDF Storage and Retrieval System
WI '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Sharing Data on the Grid using Ontologies and distributed SPARQL Queries
DEXA '07 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Bio2RDF: Towards a mashup to build bioinformatics knowledge systems
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
YARS2: a federated repository for querying graph structured data from the web
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
DBpedia: a nucleus for a web of open data
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Querying distributed RDF data sources with SPARQL
ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
The distributed annotation system for integration of biological data
DILS'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
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Scientists and healthcare workers regularly use data from a number of sources as part of their research and professional work. The current mechanisms for providing combined access to multiple datasources are either closed or not easily extensible, with some requiring users to locally load and query each data-source independently. In this work we introduce a new model for transparent querying across multiple datasources which relies on the single unifying format of RDF to merge information before returning it to users. The use of normalised, resolvable URI's, combined with the SPARQL RDF query language, enables common queries to be executed across multiple public and private datasources, including those not initially designed or represented using RDF. In order to accommodate a range of users, the implemented system has been set up to enable customisation of queries and datasources based on RDF formatted configuration files. This breadth of data and configurability allows scientists and healthcare workers to more efficiently find and communicate semantic references, supporting research, professional practice and dissemination of knowledge across communities and disciplines.