Learning Processes Based on Data Sources with Certainty Levels in Linked Open Data

Abstract

Linked Open Data (LOD) consists of numerous data stores that are highly interconnected. LOD stores use Resource Description Framework (RDF) as a data representation format. A graph-based nature of RDF brings an opportunity to develop new approaches for accumulating data from multiple sources characterized by different levels of confidence in them. Recently, a participatory learning mechanism has been extended to cope with RDF. It is an attractive way of integrating new pieces of information with already known ones. Further, it has been recognized that pieces of information describing entities can have a disjunctive or conjunctive form. This paper uses an RDF-based participatory learning process to aggregate information obtained from multiple data stores. This process provides mechanisms that determine overall certainty in combined data based on levels of confidence in already known pieces of information and new ones. The behavior of such a process used for integrating information equipped with different levels of uncertainty is presented, and a simple case study is included.