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Reliable Granular References to Changing Linked Data

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Abstract

Nanopublications are a concept to represent Linked Data in a granular and provenance-aware manner, which has been successfully applied to a number of scientific datasets. We demonstrated in previous work how we can establish reliable and verifiable identifiers for nanopublications and sets thereof. Further adoption of these techniques, however, was probably hindered by the fact that nanopublications can lead to an explosion in the number of triples due to auxiliary information about the structure of each nanopublication and repetitive provenance and metadata. We demonstrate here that this significant overhead disappears once we take the version history of nanopublication datasets into account, calculate incremental updates, and allow users to deal with the specific subsets they need. We show that the total size and overhead of evolving scientific datasets is reduced, and typical subsets that researchers use for their analyses can be referenced and retrieved efficiently with optimized precision, persistence, and reliability.

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    https://github.com/tkuhn/bel2nanopub.

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    See e.g. [33] and https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/#dataVersioning.

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    https://www.w3.org/wiki/FollowYourNose.

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    http://purl.org/nanopub/monitor.

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    https://github.com/Nanopublication/nanopub-java.

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    https://github.com/wikipathways/nanopublications.

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    See https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5230639 and https://bitbucket.org/tkuhn/nanodiff-exp/.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Javier D. Fernández for valuable input and discussions on RDF versioning. L.I. Furlong and E. Centeno received support from ISCIII-FEDER (PI13/00082, CP10/00524, CPII16/00026), the EU H2020 Programme 2014-2020 under grant agreements no. 634143 (MedBioinformatics) and no. 676559 (Elixir-Excelerate).

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Kuhn, T., Willighagen, E., Evelo, C., Queralt-Rosinach, N., Centeno, E., Furlong, L.I. (2017). Reliable Granular References to Changing Linked Data. In: , et al. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2017. ISWC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68288-4_26

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