Special Issue on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data: Guest Editorial Preface

Demidova, Elena, Dietze, Stefan, Breslin, John G. and Szymański, Julian (2016) Special Issue on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data: Guest Editorial Preface. [in special issue: Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data] International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 12 (3), 1-5.

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Abstract

The Web of Data and in particular Linked Open Data (LOD) has seen tremendous growth recently. In just three years, the number of publicly available datasets within the LOD cloud increased by more than three times from 295 datasets in 2011 to over 1000 datasets in 2014 (Schmachtenberg et al., 2014). These datasets cover a wide variety of domains from publications and life sciences to government and user-generated content. Furthermore, significant amounts of data are currently emerging through Web markup languages such as RDFa, Microdata and Microformats. Nevertheless, despite this growth, the actual take up, interlinking and reuse of Web of Data remains limited, and is often focused on well-known reference datasets.

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