Information Integration and Utilization Technology using Linked Data

Fujitsu Laboratories is conducting R&D on technology to integrate and utilize data by using Linked Data, which is a standard methodology for publishing data on the Web that is being promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). W3C is the main international standards organization for Web technologies. Linked Data uses a machine-readable structured data format that can be processed mechanically. Much information that has public value has recently been published in Linked Data format, and a global data space on the Web called Linked Open Data (LOD) has been created. This paper introduces an LOD utilization platform technology that gathers and stores data published around the world in Linked Data format and that provides a centralized search function. It was developed by the authors in collaboration with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway.