An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

Abstract The Web of Data is built upon two simple ideas: Employ the RDF data model to
publish structured data on the Web and to create explicit data links between entities within …

In recent years, several knowledge bases have been built to enable large-scale knowledge
sharing, but also an entity-centric Web search, mixing both structured data and text …

Open data plays a major role in supporting both governmental and organizational
transparency. Many organizations are adopting Open Data Principles promising to make …

Collective intelligence, which aggregates the shared information from large crowds, is often
negatively impacted by unreliable information sources with the low quality data. This …

Linked Data has emerged as a powerful way of interconnecting structured data on the Web.
However, the cross-linkage between Linked Data sources is not as extensive as one would …

In today's knowledge-, service-, and cloud-based economy, businesses accumulate massive
amounts of data from a variety of sources. In order to understand businesses one may need …

Background Translational medicine requires the integration of knowledge using
heterogeneous data from health care to the life sciences. Here, we describe a collaborative …

Link Discovery is a new research area of the Semantic Web which studies the problem of
finding semantically related entities lying in different knowledge bases. This area has …

We introduce HIL, a high-level scripting language for entity resolution and integration. HIL
aims at providing the core logic for complex data processing flows that aggregate facts from …