Workpackages
- WP1 (Study and analysis of LOD landscape, 6M). Prior to any core research activity, WP1 analyses the current landscape in Semantic Web and LOD, sets up the common ground, and defines the S&T agenda.
- WP2 (LOD management, 18M). WP2 starts with an extensive study of RDF storage and query methods. Then, the involved tasks include: (a) developing efficient solutions for exposing and fusing large LOD volumes from heterogeneous sources, (b) developing efficient co-reference methods to automatically and effectively interlink LOD datasets, (c) implementing indexing structures and ranking methods to support efficient LOD keyword search, (d) developing methods to support efficient retrieval and ranking of LOD entities, and (e) designing optimization methods for processing SPARQL queries on LOD.
- WP3 (LOD dynamics, 18M). WP3 will start with an extensive study of state-of-the-art methods in data evolution and change management. Then, the involved tasks include: (a) developing models and methods to support LOD provenance, (b) developing models and methods to support LOD preservation, (c) designing query languages to explore LOD trails, (d) designing methods and metrics to evaluate LOD ecosystems with respect to its ability to sustain and adapt to evolution events.
- WP4 (LOD privacy, 18M). WP4 will start with an extensive study of state-of-the-art for privacy-preserving methods in data publishing. Then, the involved tasks include: (a) exploring privacy-threatening scenarios in the LOD publication, as well as defining the privacy requirements and guarantees that must be maintained, (b) providing design principles and best practices to expose LOD with anonymity guarantees, (c) developing LOD anonymization methods.
- WP5 (LOD governance, 12M). WP2, WP3, and WP4 form the basis for the LOD Data Governance infrastructure, envisioned by LODGOV. Thus, WP5 integrates the outcome of WP2, WP3 and WP4, providing best practices for designing and evaluation of sustainable LOD ecosystems.
- WP6 (Evaluation, 6M). In WP6, the LODGOV team will validate the LODGOV models, methods and algorithms for LOD governance. It is important to note that the host organization maintains two Open Data services: one in the area of life science data, and one in the area of governmental open data (see also Section 1.1). Both services can be used as excellent testbeds for validating LODGOV’s technology, and this is an important advantage for LODGOV project.
- WP7 (Management and dissemination, 36M). Finally, to ensure effective planning and implementation of project activities, and promoting project results, WP7 is foreseen.
