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Using an existing website as a queryable low-cost LOD publishing interface

Brecht Van de Vyvere, Ruben Taelman, Pieter Colpaert, and Ruben Verborgh

Maintaining an Open Dataset comes at an extra recurring cost when it is published in a dedicated Web interface. As there is not often a direct financial return from publishing a dataset publicly, these extra costs need to be minimized. Therefore we want to explore reusing existing infrastructure by enriching existing websites with Linked Data. In this demonstrator, we advised the data owner to annotate a digital heritage website with JSON-LD snippets, resulting in a dataset of more than three million triples that is now available and officially maintained. The website itself is paged, and thus Hydra partial collection view controls were added in the snippets. We then extended the modular query engine Comunica to support following page controls and extracting data from HTML documents while querying. This way, a SPARQL or GraphQL query over multiple heterogeneous data sources can power automated data reuse. While the query performance on such an interface is visibly poor, it becomes easy to create composite data dumps. As a result of implementing these building blocks in Comunica, any paged collection and enriched HTML page now becomes queryable by the query engine. This enables heterogeneous data interfaces to share functionality and become technically interoperable.

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Published in 2019 in Proceedings of the 16th ESWC: Posters and Demos.

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@inproceedings{vandevyvere_eswc_demo_2019,
  author = {Van de Vyvere, Brecht and Taelman, Ruben and Colpaert, Pieter and Verborgh, Ruben},
  title = {Using an existing website as a queryable low-cost {LOD} publishing interface},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th ESWC: Posters and Demos},
  editor = {Hitzler, Pascal and Kirrane, Sabrina and Hartig, Olaf and de Boer, Victor and Vidal, Maria-Esther and Maleshkova, Maria and Schlobach, Stefan and Hammar, Karl and Lasierra, Nelia and Stadtm\"uller, Steffen and Hose, Katja and Verborgh, Ruben},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  publisher = {Springer},
  volume = 11762,
  year = 2019,
  month = jun,
  pages = {176--180},
  url = {https://brechtvdv.github.io/Article-Using-an-existing-website-as-a-queryable-low-cost-LOD-publishing-interface/},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-32327-1_35},
}

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Brecht Van de Vyvere, Ruben Taelman, Pieter Colpaert, and Ruben Verborgh. 2019. Using an existing website as a queryable low-cost LOD publishing interface. In Proceedings of the 16th ESWC: Posters and Demos (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, 176–180.
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Van de Vyvere, B., Taelman, R., Colpaert, P., & Verborgh, R. (2019). Using an existing website as a queryable low-cost LOD publishing interface. In P. Hitzler, S. Kirrane, O. Hartig, V. de Boer, M.-E. Vidal, M. Maleshkova, S. Schlobach, K. Hammar, N. Lasierra, S. Stadtmüller, K. Hose, & R. Verborgh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th ESWC: Posters and Demos (Vol. 11762, pp. 176–180). Springer.
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B. Van de Vyvere, R. Taelman, P. Colpaert, and R. Verborgh, “Using an existing website as a queryable low-cost LOD publishing interface,” in Proceedings of the 16th ESWC: Posters and Demos, 2019, vol. 11762, pp. 176–180.
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Van de Vyvere, B., Taelman, R., Colpaert, P., Verborgh, R.: Using an existing website as a queryable low-cost LOD publishing interface. In: Hitzler, P., Kirrane, S., Hartig, O., Boer, V. de, Vidal, M.-E., Maleshkova, M., Schlobach, S., Hammar, K., Lasierra, N., Stadtmüller, S., Hose, K., and Verborgh, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th ESWC: Posters and Demos. pp. 176–180. Springer (2019).
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Van de Vyvere, Brecht, et al. “Using an Existing Website as a Queryable Low-Cost LOD Publishing Interface.” Proceedings of the 16th ESWC: Posters and Demos, edited by Pascal Hitzler et al., vol. 11762, Springer, 2019, pp. 176–80.

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