Twenty-five Semantic Web and Database researchers met at the 2011 STI Semantic Summit
in Riga, Latvia July 6-8, 2011 [1] to discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by Big …

Integrative Biology (IB) uses experimental or computational quantitative technologies to
characterize biological systems at the molecular, cellular, tissue and population levels. IB …

There has been a recent, tangible growth in RDF published on the Web in accordance with
the Linked Data principles and best practices, the result of which has been dubbed the “Web …

One of the major obstacles for a wider usage of web data is the difficulty to obtain a clear
picture of the available datasets. In order to reuse, link, revise or query a dataset published …

A central problem in the context of the Web of Linked Data as well as in data integration in
general is to identify entities in different data sources that describe the same real-world …

We review technical and sociological issues facing the Life Sciences as they transform into
more data-centric disciplines-the “Big New Biology”. Three major challenges are: 1) lack of …

We present SchemEX, an approach and tool for a stream-based indexing and schema
extraction of Linked Open Data (LOD) at web-scale. The schema index provided by …

The LDIF-Linked Data Integration Framework can be used within Linked Data applications
to translate heterogeneous data from the Web of Linked Data into a clean local target …

The historical built environment is acknowledged as a valuable but complex material and
cultural resource that needs to be preserved. Digital technologies give the opportunity to …

In this paper, we describe a mechanism for ontology alignment using instance based
matching of types (or classes). Instance-based matching is known to be a useful technique …