OverviewsOverview
The University of Iowa primarily worked on the design and implementation of an support infrastructure layer for an eventual ecosystem of Linked Open Data servers and systems. Given the somewhat immature nature of currently deployed LOD resources (e.g., offline SPARQL endpoints), the project decided that it was advisable to deploy our own services for the various LOD resources. This allowed us to
- make reasonable assumptions regarding resource availability,
- control performance characteristics, since we controlled the hardware, and
- control the nature of the data returned to queries, since we controlled the software.
The work done regarding this last point included, tuning the rank order of results, the specificity of what comprised a match to a user query, and what data were returned. In particular, we were able to inject an additional triple indicating a particular entity's rank in the results - something not present in the underlying triplestore.
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