TY - JOUR
T1 - Nested contextualised views in the web of data
AU - Analyti, Anastasia
AU - Damásio, Carlos V.
AU - Pachoulakis, Ioannis
N1 - Sem PDF
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The notion of context is important since it can capture many of the interesting aspects of the way we understand the world such as relativity, locality, partiality, and context-dependence. In this work, we define the contextual RDFS model theory, called c-RDFS model theory for short, where a context is a triple of a name, a c-RDF graph, and a set of references (links) from resources to other contexts. This way chains of nested contextualised views are formed, where corresponding contexts can be complementary or conflicting. A collection of such chains forms a contextual structure. The c-RDFS model theory is developed extending the RDFS 1.1 model theory, which supports inferences both within contexts but also across contexts. Entailment of contextual structures is defined extending RDFS entailment between RDF graphs. For querying contextual structures, an extension of the SPARQL 1.0 language is proposed which allows querying one context at a time (thus delimiting a portion of interest) but also navigation through the references of a context reaching the contextual views of the desired resources.
AB - The notion of context is important since it can capture many of the interesting aspects of the way we understand the world such as relativity, locality, partiality, and context-dependence. In this work, we define the contextual RDFS model theory, called c-RDFS model theory for short, where a context is a triple of a name, a c-RDF graph, and a set of references (links) from resources to other contexts. This way chains of nested contextualised views are formed, where corresponding contexts can be complementary or conflicting. A collection of such chains forms a contextual structure. The c-RDFS model theory is developed extending the RDFS 1.1 model theory, which supports inferences both within contexts but also across contexts. Entailment of contextual structures is defined extending RDFS entailment between RDF graphs. For querying contextual structures, an extension of the SPARQL 1.0 language is proposed which allows querying one context at a time (thus delimiting a portion of interest) but also navigation through the references of a context reaching the contextual views of the desired resources.
KW - contextual structures
KW - contextualised views
KW - Entailment
KW - Querying.
KW - RDFS 1.1 model theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929618305&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/IJWET.2015.069360
DO - 10.1504/IJWET.2015.069360
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84929618305
VL - 10
SP - 31
EP - 64
JO - International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
JF - International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
SN - 1476-1289
IS - 1
ER -