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View-based search provides a promising paradigm for formulating complex semantic queries and representing results on the Semantic Web. A challenge for the application of the paradigm is the complexity of providing view-based search services through application programming interfaces (API) and web services. This paper presents a solution on how semantic view-based search can be provided efficiently through an API or as web service to external applications. The approach has been implemented as the open source tool Ontogator, that has been applied successfully in several practical semantic portals on the web.
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Mäkelä, E., Hyvönen, E., Saarela, S. (2006). Ontogator — A Semantic View-Based Search Engine Service for Web Applications. In: Cruz, I., et al. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006. ISWC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11926078_61
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