Multilingual linked data patterns

Issue title: Multilingual Linked Open Data

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Labra Gayo, Jose Emilio^{a; *} | Kontokostas, Dimitris^b | Auer, Sören^{b; c}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Computer Science, University of Oviedo, CP. 33007, Oviedo, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] | [b] Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, AKSW, Postfach 100920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] | [c] Universität Bonn, Institut für Informatik III, EIS, Römerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: The increasing publication of linked data makes the vision of the semantic web a probable reality. Although it may seem that the web of data is inherently multilingual, data usually contain labels, comments, descriptions, etc. that depend on the natural language used. When linked data appears in a multilingual setting, it is a challenge to publish and consume it. This paper presents a survey of patterns to publish Multilingual Linked Data and identifies some issues that should be taken into account. As a use case, the paper describes the patterns employed in the DBpedia Internationalization project.

Keywords: Linked data, multilingual web, language tags, multilingual data

DOI: 10.3233/SW-140136

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 319-337, 2015