Example PhD

Geo-spatial and Temporal Linked Data Web

Supervisor: Dr A.I. Abdelmoty

Keywords: Linked Data Web, Semantic Web, Geographic, Spatial and Temporal data

The Web is increasingly becoming a global information space consisting not just of linked documents, but also of linked data. This emerging Web of Data now includes diverse data sets, such as DBpedia, Geonames, MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, FOAF and OpenCyc. One key benefit of linked data from the user perspective is the provision of integrated access to data from a wide range of distributed and heterogeneous data sources, for example, linking a photograph in Flickr to an article in Wikipedia and an artist in MusicBrainz. Geographical and temporal references are important dimensions used for the identification of data elements in different domains. The importance of these Where and When aspects of data to human reasoning is evidenced by the millions of data records, in the form of RDF triples, associated to geographic place and time information currently being accumulated and provided as linked data.

This project will focus on the exposure of the inherent geo-spatial and temporal content of linked data resources in view of using this information as an anchor for linking and integrating different data sets. In a similar fashion to current hypertext browsers that provide mechanisms for navigation forwards and backwards in a document-centric information space, space and time information can be used to control navigation and browsing in a linked data browser.

Linked Data project
GeoNames
Linked Data - The Story So Far : A paper introducing the concepts and challenges for the linked data web.

Key Skills/Background: Open to Computing Graduates and postgraduates.

Contact: Dr A.I. Abdelmoty to discuss this research topic.