Abstract
Linked Data technologies and methods are enabling the creation of a data network where pieces of data are interconnected on the Web using machine-readable formats such as Resource Description Framework (RDF). This paradigm offers great opportunities to connect and make available knowledge in different languages. However, in order to make this vision a reality, there is a need for guidelines, techniques, and methods that allow publishers of data to overcome language and technological barriers. In this chapter, we review existing methodologies from the point of view of multilingualism and propose a series of guidelines to help publishers when publishing Linked Data in several languages.
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See, for example, http://lod-cloud.net, http://datahub.io, or http://datacatalogs.org (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://geo.linkeddata.es (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://lod-cloud.net/ (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://geolinkeddata.es (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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Classes in RDF terminology.
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Properties in RDF terminology.
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http://metadatos.ign.es/metadatos/Normativa/nucleo-espanol-de-metadatos-para-datos-y-servicios (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://swse.deri.org/ (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://sindice.com (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://datahub.io (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://ws.nju.edu.cn/falcons (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://lov.okfn.org (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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Here it is also worth mentioning the OntoLex W3C community effort that aims at proposing a standard model of linguistic descriptions relative to ontologies and vocabularies.
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See, for example, http://tika.apache.org/, http://code.google.com/p/language-detection and http://nutch.apache.org (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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For example, Virtuoso (http://openlinksw.com), 4Store (http://4store.org), and Allegrograph (http://www.franz.com/agraph/allegrograph/) (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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For example, Apache Jena (http://jena.apache.org/), Sesame (http://www.openrdf.org/), and ARC2 (https://github.com/semsol/arc2).
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For example, RDF refine (http://refine.deri.ie/) and Apache Any23 (http://any23.apache.org/).
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http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1.html (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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http://dublincore.org/documents/2010/10/11/dcmi-terms/ (retrieved March 28, 2014).
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This work has been supported by the BabelData (TIN2010-17550) and myBigData (TIN2010-17060) Spanish projects and by the FP7 Monnet (FP7-ICT-4-248458) and FP7 Lider (FP7-ICT-2013.4.1) European projects. The authors would also like to thank the editors and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions and Luis Vilches-Blázquez for providing the examples of geo.linkeddata.es.
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Vila-Suero, D., Gómez-Pérez, A., Montiel-Ponsoda, E., Gracia, J., Aguado-de-Cea, G. (2014). Publishing Linked Data on the Web: The Multilingual Dimension. In: Buitelaar, P., Cimiano, P. (eds) Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43585-4_7
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