Building distributed index for semantic web data

Abstract

With the rapid growth of Semantic Web, more and more Semantic Web data are generated and widely used. Efficient search and management of the Semantic Web data is becoming a very important issue. In this paper, we present Semantic Web data indexing scheme over a fully decentralized P2P network. Ontological knowledge is decomposed into atomic elements and then indexed with a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlay. Ontology reasoning, integration, and searching are all based on the index. A complex SPARQL query can be evaluated by performing relational operations such as select, project, and join on combinations of the atoms. A set of experiments have been made to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed indexing scheme. © 2009 IEEE.