Discovering Domain-Specific Public SPARQL Endpoints: A Life-Sciences Use-Case

Abstract

A significant portion of the LOD cloud consists of Life Sciences data sets. The LOD cloud contains billions of clinical facts linked together forming an interlinked Web of Clinical Data . However, tools for new publishers to find relevant datasets that could potentially be linked to are missing, particularly in specialist domain-specific settings. Based on a set of domain-specific keywords extracted from a local dataset, this paper proposes methods to automatically identify a list of public SPARQL endpoints whose content relates to the local dataset.