Viewing the Web as a Distributed Knowledge Base

  • Authors:
  • Serge Abiteboul;Émilien Antoine;Julia Stoyanovich

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDE '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper addresses the challenges faced by everyday Web users, who interact with inherently heterogeneous and distributed information. Managing such data is currently beyond the skills of casual users. We describe ongoing work that has as its goal the development of foundations for declarative distributed data management. In this approach, we see the Web as a knowledge base consisting of distributed logical facts and rules. Our objective is to enable automated reasoning over this knowledge base, ultimately improving the quality of service and of data. For this, we use Webdamlog, a Datalogstyle language with rule delegation. We outline ongoing efforts on the Web dam Exchange platform that combines Webdamlog evaluation with communication and security protocols.