Enabling the Web of (Linked Open) Data

Abstract

In this tutorial, we will take a look at the Web of Data and the Linked Open Data (LOD) project, in particular, via the lenses of “emergent semantics”, which is quintessential for a much sought after semantic interoperability in highly dynamic environments. We also review the Web of Data via the property of self-organisation, which is an essential property of emergent semantics systems. This approach is promising to tackle some of the challenges in relation with successful publishing, reusability and linking of open data on the Web, since data sets and their descriptions in such a dynamic environment are continuously evolving and, therefore, need to be explored and searched via approximate querying, pattern search and similarity functions.