The growing number of datasets published on the Web as Linked Data brings both opportunities for high data availability and challenges inherent to querying data in a semantically heterogeneous and distributed environment. Approaches used for querying siloed databases fail at Web-scale because users don't have prior understanding of all the available datasets. This article investigates the main challenges in constructing a query and search solution for Linked Data and analyzes existing approaches and trends.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2011.141
Keywords: Query, Semantic Web, Natural language, RDF, Semantic search
Author: O’Riain, Sean
Publisher: IEEE
Date created: 2012-01-09 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P20M
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: expositive