Scalable Semantics–the Silver Lining of Cloud Computing.PDF

Scalable Semantics – the Silver Lining of Cloud Computing Andre Newman, Yuan-Fang Li and Jane Hunter School of ITEE, The University of Queensland 4072 Queensland, Australia {anewman,liyf,jane}@.au Abstract However, despite the widespread adoption of RDF, OWL and SPARQL within many disciplines and ap- plications, there remain two major challenges to the Semantic inferencing and querying across large- seamless integration of large-scale distributed datasets: scale RDF triple stores is notoriously slow. Our objec- 1. Efficient scalable RDF querying and reason- tive is to expedite this process by employing Google’s MapReduce framework to implement scale-out distri- ing; 2. Object co-identification or co-reference – buted querying and reasoning. This approach requires identifying when entries across datasets are RDF graphs to be decomposed into smaller units that the same. are distributed across computational nodes. RDF Mo- These issues are particularly problematic within the lecules appear