Provenance for SPARQL queries

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Viegas Damásio;Anastasia Analyti;Grigoris Antoniou

  • Affiliations:
  • CENTRIA, Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-ICS, Crete, Greece;Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-ICS, Crete, Greece,Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Crete, Greece

  • Venue:
  • ISWC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Determining trust of data available in the Semantic Web is fundamental for applications and users, in particular for linked open data obtained from SPARQL endpoints. There exist several proposals in the literature to annotate SPARQL query results with values from abstract models, adapting the seminal works on provenance for annotated relational databases. We provide an approach capable of providing provenance information for a large and significant fragment of SPARQL 1.1, including for the first time the major non-monotonic constructs under multiset semantics. The approach is based on the translation of SPARQL into relational queries over annotated relations with values of the most general m-semiring, and in this way also refuting a claim in the literature that the OPTIONAL construct of SPARQL cannot be captured appropriately with the known abstract models.