Transparent mobile querying of online RDF sources using semantic indexing and caching

  • Authors:
  • William Van Woensel;Sven Casteleyn;Elien Paret;Olga De Troyer

  • Affiliations:
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium;Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Valencia, Spain;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • WISE'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Web information system engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Due to advancements in mobile technology and connectivity, mobile devices have become fully-fledged web clients. At the same time, more and more Semantic Web data is becoming available, to a point where it becomes usable for various mobile application scenarios. However, most applications are limited to using pre-defined query endpoints in order to access Semantic Web data, which leaves a huge part of the Semantic Web, consisting of online RDF files and semantically annotated websites, inaccessible. In this paper, we present a mobile query service for the efficient and transparent querying of large amounts of small online RDF sources. In order to achieve this, the query service relies on two key components: 1/ a lightweight semantics-based indexing scheme, to identify sources relevant to posed queries, and 2/ a caching mechanism that locally stores frequently-used data.