ssOverviewsssOverview
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
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All of these services, including versions supporting human interaction with the results, are available at http://services.ld4l.org/ld4l_services/index.jsp. Direct human exploration of the various triplestores using SPARQL is available at http://services.ld4l.org/fuseki/s.
Request Parameterization
To simplify both the creation of new services and the understanding by developers of applications consuming these services, we standardized the parameters accepted by the various services as much as possible:
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