Winnenburg Rainer, Bodenreider Olivier
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014 Nov 14;2014:1218-27. eCollection 2014.
The Semantic Web provides a framework for the integration of resources on the web, which facilitates information integration and interoperability. RDF is the main representation format for Linked Open Data (LOD). However, datasets are not always made available in RDF by their producers and the Semantic Web community has had to convert some of these datasets to RDF in order for these datasets to participate in the LOD cloud. As a result, the LOD cloud sometimes contains outdated, partial and even inaccurate RDF datasets. We review the LOD landscape for one of these resources, MeSH, and analyze the characteristics of six existing representations in order to identify desirable features for an authoritative version, for which we create a prototype. We illustrate the suitability of this prototype on three common use cases. NLM intends to release an authoritative representation of MeSH in RDF (beta version) in the Fall of 2014.
语义网提供了一个用于整合网络资源的框架,这有助于信息整合和互操作性。RDF是关联开放数据(LOD)的主要表示格式。然而,数据集的生产者并不总是以RDF格式提供数据集,语义网社区不得不将其中一些数据集转换为RDF格式,以便这些数据集能够参与LOD云。因此,LOD云有时包含过时、不完整甚至不准确的RDF数据集。我们针对其中一种资源MeSH审视了LOD格局,并分析了六种现有表示形式的特征,以便确定权威版本的理想特性,为此我们创建了一个原型。我们在三个常见用例中说明了这个原型的适用性。美国国立医学图书馆计划在2014年秋季发布MeSH的RDF权威表示形式(测试版)。