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Blockchain for Trustworthy Publication and Integration of Linked Open Data

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Fabian Kirstein,

Manfred HauswirthAuthors Info & Claims

K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th Knowledge Capture Conference

Pages 269 - 272

https://doi.org/10.1145/3460210.3493572

Published: 02 December 2021 Publication History

Abstract

The timely, traceable and provenance-aware publication of Linked Open Data (LOD) is crucial for its success and to fulfill the vision of a global, decentralized, and machine-readable database of knowledge. Yet, the access to LOD is still fragmented and mainly centralized aggregations are being used, relying on complex harvesting mechanisms. As a remedy, we propose a blockchain-based approach enabling an integrated, traceable, and timely view on LOD. We use a blockchain to meet the organizational requirements of publishing LOD in a decentralized fashion while still supporting the sovereignty of the data providers and supporting provenance and proper integration into a harmonized knowledge graph. We present an approach and an implemented system that fulfills the requirements regarding volume and throughput and can be used as the foundation for practical deployments. We use Linked Open Government Data (LOGD) as our case study to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. We developed a prototype to address the specific requirements of LOGD publication and apply the Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance algorithm at its core to enable a robust state replication.

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Index Terms

Blockchain for Trustworthy Publication and Integration of Linked Open Data
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
      1. Peer-to-peer architectures
2. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Information integration

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K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th Knowledge Capture Conference

December 2021

300 pages

ISBN:9781450384575

DOI:10.1145/3460210

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IBM Research Almaden, USA
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Center for Computational Biomedicine, Harvard Medical School, USA

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Fateminasab SMemarian STabbakh SRomero-Ternero M(2024)A Review on Open Data Storage and Retrieval Techniques in Blockchain-based Applications2024 10th International Conference on Web Research (ICWR)10.1109/ICWR61162.2024.10533356(297-302)Online publication date: 24-Apr-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWR61162.2024.10533356
Munir SFerretti S(2023)Towards Federated Decentralized Querying on Knowledge Graphs2023 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)10.1109/CSCI62032.2023.00104(585-591)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCI62032.2023.00104
Filip IIonite CGonzalez-Cebrian ABalanescu MDobre CChis AFeenan DBuga AConstantin ISuciu GIordache GGonzalez-Velez H(2022)Smardy: Zero-Trust FAIR Marketplace for Research Data2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020710(1535-1541)Online publication date: 17-Dec-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020710

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