The explosion in the amount of the available RDF data has lead to the need to explore, query and understand such data sources. Due to the complex structure of RDF graphs and their heterogeneity, the exploration and understanding tasks are significantly harder than in relational databases, where the schema can serve as a first step toward understanding the structure. Summarization has been applied to RDF data to facilitate these tasks. Its purpose is to extract concise and meaningful information from RDF knowledge bases, representing their content as faithfully as possible. There is no single concept of RDF summary, and not a single but many approaches to build such summaries; each is better suited for some uses, and each presents specific challenges with respect to its construction. This survey is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of summarization method for semantic RDF graphs. We propose a taxonomy of existing works in this area, including also some closely related works developed prior to the adoption of RDF in the data management community; we present the concepts at the core of each approach and outline their main technical aspects and implementation. We hope the survey will help readers understand this scientifically rich area, and identify the most pertinent summarization method for a variety of usage scenarios.
PICSEL is an information integration system over sources that are distributed and possibly heterogeneous. The approach which has been chosen in PICSEL is to define an information server as a knowledge-based mediator in which CARIN is used as the core logical formalism to represent both the domain of application and the contents of information sources relevant to that domain. In this paper, we describe the way the expressive power of the CARIN language is exploited in the PICSEL information integration system, while maintaining the decidability of query answering. We illustrate it on examples coming from the tourism domain, which is the first real case that we have to consider in PICSEL, in collaboration with the travel agency Degriftour. see
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