Re-using Cool URIs: Entity reconciliation against LOD hubs

Abstract

We observe that "LOD hubs" are emerging. They provide well-managed reference identifiers that attract a large share of the incoming links on the Web of Data and play a crucial role in data integration within communities of interest. But connecting to such hubs as part of the Linked Data publishing process is still a difficult task. In this paper, we explore several approaches to the implementation of reconciliation services that allow third-party publishers to link their data to LOD hubs as part of the data publishing process. We evaluate four approaches using the OAEI Instance Matching Benchmark, and describe their implementation in an ex- Tension to the popular data workbench application Google Refine.