An infrastructure for acquiring high quality semantic metadata

Yuangui Lei, Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta

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Abstract

Because metadata that underlies semantic web applications is gathered from distributed and heterogeneous data sources, it is important to ensure its quality (i.e., reduce duplicates, spelling errors, ambiguities). However, current infrastructures that acquire and integrate semantic data have only marginally addressed the issue of metadata quality. In this paper we present our metadata acquisition infrastructure, ASDI, which pays special attention to ensuring that high quality metadata is derived. Central to the architecture of ASDI is a verification engine that relies on several semantic web tools to check the quality of the derived data. We tested our prototype in the context of building a semantic web portal for our lab, KMi. An experimental evaluation comparing the automatically extracted data against manual annotations indicates that the verification engine enhances the quality of the extracted semantic metadata.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe semantic web : research and applications
Subtitle of host publication3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006 Proceedings
EditorsYork Sure, John Domingue
Place of PublicationBerlin (DE)
PublisherSpringer
Pages230-244
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-34545-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-34544-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event3rd European Semantic Web Conference - Budva, Montenegro
Duration: 11 Jun 200614 Jun 2006

Publication series

NameLecture notes in computer science
PublisherSpringer
Volume4011
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd European Semantic Web Conference
Abbreviated titleESWC 2006
Country/TerritoryMontenegro
CityBudva
Period11/06/0614/06/06

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