Reasoning Techniques for the Web of Data

Reasoning Techniques for the Web of Data
Summary
Linked Data publishing has brought about a novel "Web of Data": a wealth of diverse, interlinked, structured data published on the Web. These Linked Datasets are described using the Semantic Web standards and are openly available to all, produced by governments, businesses, communities and academia alike. However, the heterogeneity of such data - in terms of how resources are described and identified - poses major challenges to potential consumers. Herein, we examine use cases for pragmatic, lightweight reasoning techniques that leverage Web vocabularies (described in RDFS and OWL) to better i