Interlinking Scientific Data on a Global Scale

Research Data Reusability: Conceptual Foundations, Barriers and Enabling Technologies

“…The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing structured data on the Web [39]. In particular, Linked Data provides [40] (i) a unifying data model. Linked Data relies on Resource Description Framework RDF as a single, unifying model; (ii) a standardized data access mechanism.…”

API-centric Linked Data integration: The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform case study

“…It is no longer the consumer or producer of data that necessarily needs to be responsible for data integration, third parties can contribute as well [4]. However, a question still arises for any of these contributors, how much price should one pay and when?…”

“…The platform was launched April 21, 2013 3 . As of March 1 2014, the platform has been accessed 13.5 million times 4 and integrated into 12 applications 5 . This work builds on prior work.…”

“…Instead of designing a global schema and integrating data up-front, data is integrated in a pay-as-you-go fashion where mappings are driven by the needs of the user. Bizer has argued that Linked Data represents an example of a dataspace at a global scale [4]. Indeed, Linked Data has several benefits for creating dataspace style systems:…”

$$[MS]^2O$$ – A Multi-scale and Multi-step Ontology for Transformation Processes: Application to Micro-Organisms

“…An ontology is designed to represent the knowledge from a domain in terms of concepts, relations between these concepts and instances of these concepts [8]. Building networks of interconnected ontologies [5] and publishing ontologies on the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud 3 should facilitate data integration and data sharing, such as giving access to data from specific disciplines or data produced within specific geographic regions [2]. However, domain ontologies are built for a specific task and it is not easy to reuse them for a different one.…”