Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data

We live in an era of ever-increasing abundance of data. To cope with the information overload we suffer from every single day, more sophisticated methods are required to access, manipulate, and analyze these humongous amounts of data. By embracing the heterogeneity, which is unavoidable at such a sc...

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Main Authors: Lanthaler, Markus, Guetl, Christian
Format: Journal Article
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10008
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description We live in an era of ever-increasing abundance of data. To cope with the information overload we suffer from every single day, more sophisticated methods are required to access, manipulate, and analyze these humongous amounts of data. By embracing the heterogeneity, which is unavoidable at such a scale, and accepting the fact that the data quality and meaning are fuzzy, more adaptable, flexible, and extensible systems can be built. RESTful services combined with Semantic Web technologies could prove to be a viable path to achieve that. Their combination a1lows data integration on an unprecedented sca1e and solves some of the problems Web developers are continuously struggling with. This paper introduces a novel approach to create machine-readable descriptions for RESTful services as a first step towards this ambitious goal. It also shows how these descriptions along with analgorithm to translate SPARQL queries to HTTP requests can be used to integrate RESTful services into a global read-write Web of Data.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-100082017-01-30T11:16:18Z Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data Lanthaler, Markus Guetl, Christian We live in an era of ever-increasing abundance of data. To cope with the information overload we suffer from every single day, more sophisticated methods are required to access, manipulate, and analyze these humongous amounts of data. By embracing the heterogeneity, which is unavoidable at such a scale, and accepting the fact that the data quality and meaning are fuzzy, more adaptable, flexible, and extensible systems can be built. RESTful services combined with Semantic Web technologies could prove to be a viable path to achieve that. Their combination a1lows data integration on an unprecedented sca1e and solves some of the problems Web developers are continuously struggling with. This paper introduces a novel approach to create machine-readable descriptions for RESTful services as a first step towards this ambitious goal. It also shows how these descriptions along with analgorithm to translate SPARQL queries to HTTP requests can be used to integrate RESTful services into a global read-write Web of Data. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10008 Hindawi Publishing Corporation fulltext
spellingShingle Lanthaler, Markus
Guetl, Christian
Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data
title Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data
title_full Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data
title_fullStr Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data
title_full_unstemmed Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data
title_short Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data
title_sort seamless integration of restful services into the web of data
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10008