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Title Km4City ontology building vs data harvesting and cleaning for smart-city services
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Authors Bellini, P; Benigni, M; Billero, R; Nesi, P; Rauch, N
Title Km4City ontology building vs data harvesting and cleaning for smart-city services
Year 2014
Published Journal Of Visual Languages And Computing, 25, 6
DOI 10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.10.023
Abstract Presently, a very large number of public and private data sets are available from local governments. In most cases, they are not semantically interoperable and a huge human effort would be needed to create integrated ontologies and knowledge base for smart city. Smart City ontology is not yet standardized, and a lot of research work is needed to identify models that can easily support the data reconciliation, the management of the complexity, to allow the data reasoning. In this paper, a system for data ingestion and reconciliation of smart cities related aspects as road graph, services available on the roads, traffic sensors etc., is proposed. The system allows managing a big data volume of data coming from a variety of sources considering both static and dynamic data. These data are mapped to a smart-city ontology, called KM4City (Knowledge Model for City), and stored into an RDF-Store where they are available for applications via SPARQL queries to provide new services to the users via specific applications of public administration and enterprises. The paper presents the process adopted to produce the ontology and the big data architecture for the knowledge base feeding on the basis of open and private data, and the mechanisms adopted for the data verification, reconciliation and validation. Some examples about the possible usage of the coherent big data knowledge base produced are also offered and are accessible from the RDF-store and related services. The article also presented the work performed about reconciliation algorithms and their comparative assessment and selection. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Author Keywords Smart city; Knowledge base construction; Reconciliation; Validation and verification of knowledge base; Smart city ontology; Linked open graph; Km4city
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000346818000023
WoS Category Computer Science, Software Engineering
Research Area Computer Science
PDF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.10.023
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