Incomplete information in RDF databases with an emphasis on the geospatial domain
Abstract
Incomplete information has been studied in-depth in relational databases and knowledge representation, but not much has been done in semantic web frameworks such as RDF. In this Thesis we propose an extension of RDF, called RDFi, for the representation and querying of incomplete information for property values. The RDFi framework is parameterized with a constraint language and serves for expressing partial knowledge about property values through the formulation of constraints. We give the syntax and formal semantics of RDFi and extend the compositional semantics of SPARQL to capture the new elements introduced in RDFi for the capturing of incomplete information. We show two fragments of SPARQL that can be used to evaluate queries over RDFi in a semantically correct way and only with respect to a subset of their answers corresponding to the so-called certain answers. Our work around RDFi completes by giving an algorithm for the computation of certain answers and studying the data comple ...
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