squin.org - SQUIN - Query the Web of Linked Data

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SQUIN is a query interface for the Web of Linked Data. The query system in SQUIN implements a novel query execution paradigm called link traversal based query execution .

Our aim is to enable Web applications to consume Linked Data from the Web. With SQUIN we provide a query service as an addition to the LAMP technology stack. This service executes queries over the whole Web of Linked Data and, hence, enables applications to access the whole Web as if it is a single giant database.

The World Wide Web currently evolves into a Web of Linked Data where content providers publish and link their data as they have done with hypertext for the last 20 years. We understand this emerging dataspace as a huge, distributed database which is -at best- partially known to query execution systems. To tap the full potential of the Web, such a system must be able to answer a query using data from initially unknown data sources. For this purpose, traditional query execution paradigms are unsuitable becaus

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