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The Virtual Knowledge Graph System Ontop

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Ontop is a popular open-source virtual knowledge graph system that can expose heterogeneous data sources as a unified knowledge graph. Ontop has been widely used in a variety of research and industrial projects. In this paper, we describe the challenges, design choices, new features of the latest release of Ontop v4, summarizing the development efforts of the last 4 years.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://github.com/ontop/ontop-dockertests

  2. 2.

    https://github.com/ontop/ontop/issues/346

  3. 3.

    https://hub.docker.com/r/ontop/ontop-endpoint

  4. 4.

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/ontop4obda/files/stats/timeline

  5. 5.

    https://ontop-vkg.org/

  6. 6.

    https://github.com/ontop/ontop/

  7. 7.

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/ontop4obda

  8. 8.

    http://ontopic.biz/

  9. 9.

    https://www.unibz.it/it/news/132449 (in Italian).

  10. 10.

    http://unics.cloud/

  11. 11.

    http://www.toscanaopenresearch.it/

  12. 12.

    https://sparql.opendatahub.bz.it/

  13. 13.

    https://github.com/noi-techpark/webcomp-kg

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  1. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Guohui Xiao, Davide Lanti, Linfang Ding, Julien Corman & Diego Calvanese

  2. Ontopic s.r.l., Bolzano, Italy

    Guohui Xiao, Sarah Komla-Ebri, Benjamin Cogrel & Diego Calvanese

  3. Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

    Roman Kontchakov

  4. Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Graz, Austria

    Elem Güzel-Kalaycı

  5. Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Diego Calvanese

  6. Imperial College London, London, UK

    Elena Botoeva

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  2. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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  3. University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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Xiao, G. et al. (2020). The Virtual Knowledge Graph System Ontop. In: Pan, J.Z., et al. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2020. ISWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12507. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62466-8_17

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