A scalable and extensible framework for query answering over RDF

作者：De Virgilio Roberto^*; Del Nostro Pierluigi; Gianforme Giorgio; Paolozzi Stefano

来源：World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems, 2011, 14(5-6): 599-622.

DOI：10.1007/s11280-011-0110-z

• RDF
• RDFS
• Query answering
• Metamodel

The Semantic Web is gaining increasing interest to fulfill the need of sharing, retrieving, and reusing information. In this context, the Resource Description Framework (RDF) has been conceived to provide an easy way to represent any kind of data and metadata, according to a lightweight model and syntaxes for serialization (RDF/XML, N3, etc.). Despite RDF has the advantage of being general and simple, it cannot be used as a storage model as it is, since it can be easily shown that even simple management operations involve serious performance limitations. In this paper we present a framework which provides a flexible and persistent layer relying on a novel storage model that guarantees good scalability and performance of query evaluation. The approach is based on the notion of construct, that represents a concept of the domain of interest. This makes the approach easily extensible and independent from the specific knowledge representation language. Based on this representation, reasoning capabilities are supported by a rule-based engine. Finally we present experimental results over real world scenarios to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.

• 出版日期2011-10