Re: Schema Mappings (was Re: AW: ANN: LOD Cloud - Statistics and compliance with best practices)

Hi Antoine,

On Friday, October 22, 2010, Antoine Zimmermann
<antoine.zimmermann@insa-lyon.fr> wrote:
> Le 22/10/2010 17:23, Leigh Dodds a écrit :
> This also strikes me as an opportunity: someone could usefully build a
> service (perhaps built on facilities in Sindice) that aggregated
> schema information and provides tools for expressing simple mappings
> and equivalencies. It could fill a dual role: recommend more
> common/preferred terms, whilst simultaneously providing
> machine-readable equivalencies.
>
> This sounds very much like what an ontology alignment server is doing:
> it provides alignments [often synonym with mappings] on demand (given
> two ontology URIs), either by retrieving locally stored alignments, or
> by asking another alignment server for an alignment that it may have, or
> by computing the alignment on the fly, given a certain direct matching
> algorithm or from the aggregation (e.g., composition) of existing
> alignments. The alignment server can also be used for various other
> things such as comparing alignments, evaluating them, rating them,
> updating them, etc.
>
> A paper describing the Alignment server [1] has been submitted to the
> Semantic Web Journal and is under open review (you can read the paper
> and the reviews and submit your own reviews or comments). The server
> itself can be downloaded and installed anywhere [2].

Interesting, thanks for the reference. I was aware that there's has
been and continues to be a lot of research in this area, but was just
wondering out loud whether anyone has explored opening up some kind of
matching service on a more production footing, either as an automated
service or using crowd-sourced mappings.

Running tools locally, and explore their effectiveness would he an
interesting exercise. But presumably  there will be a need to start
surfacing some services in this area soon, as part of the general
semweb infrastructure.

Cheers,

L.

-- 
Leigh Dodds
Programme Manager, Talis Platform
Talis
leigh.dodds@talis.com
http://www.talis.com

Received on Saturday, 23 October 2010 09:52:03 UTC