Linked Data Management (Hardcover)

Linked Data Management presents techniques for querying and managing Linked Data that is available on today’s Web. The book shows how the abundance of Linked Data can serve as fertile ground for research and commercial applications.

The text focuses on aspects of managing large-scale collections of Linked Data. It offers a detailed introduction to Linked Data and related standards, including the main principles distinguishing Linked Data from standard database technology. Chapters also describe how to generate links between datasets and explain the overall architecture of data integration systems based on Linked Data.

A large part of the text is devoted to query processing in different setups. After presenting methods to publish relational data as Linked Data and efficient centralized processing, the book explores lookup-based, distributed, and parallel solutions. It then addresses advanced topics, such as reasoning, and discusses work related to read-write Linked Data for system interoperation.

Despite the publication of many papers since Tim Berners-Lee developed the Linked Data principles in 2006, the field lacks a comprehensive, unified overview of the state of the art. Suitable for both researchers and practitioners, this book provides a thorough, consolidated account of the new data publishing and data integration paradigm. While the book covers query processing extensively, the Linked Data abstraction furnishes more than a mechanism for collecting, integrating, and querying data from the open Web—the Linked Data technology stack also allows for controlled, sophisticated applications deployed in an enterprise environment.

《Linked Data Management》介紹了在當今網絡上可用的Linked Data的查詢和管理技術。本書展示了Linked Data的豐富性如何成為研究和商業應用的肥沃土壤。

本書重點關注管理大規模Linked Data集合的各個方面。它詳細介紹了Linked Data及其相關標準，包括區別Linked Data與標準數據庫技術的主要原則。章節還描述了如何在數據集之間生成鏈接，並解釋了基於Linked Data的數據集成系統的整體架構。

本書的很大一部分專注於不同設置中的查詢處理。在介紹將關聯數據發布為Linked Data和高效集中處理的方法之後，本書探討了基於查找、分佈式和並行解決方案。然後，它討論了推理等高級主題，並討論了與系統互操作性相關的讀寫Linked Data的工作。

儘管自2006年Tim Berners-Lee提出Linked Data原則以來已發表了許多論文，但該領域缺乏一個全面、統一的現狀概述。本書適用於研究人員和從業人員，提供了對新數據發布和數據集成範式的全面、整合的介紹。儘管本書廣泛涵蓋了查詢處理，但Linked Data抽象不僅提供了一種從開放網絡收集、集成和查詢數據的機制，還允許在企業環境中部署受控、複雜的應用程序。