The maturation of semantic technologies and the growing popularity of the Linked Open
Data (LOD) cloud make it possible to expose linked semantic data sets to end users in order …

Today, searching the World Wide Web in most cases turns out in looking for a specific item,
which means that the user should know the item in advance. In the future internet, searching …

There are growing arguments that linked data technologies can be utilised to enable user-
oriented exploratory search systems for the future Internet. Recently, search over linked data …

This paper investigates how a user could be aided to explore linked data in a way leading to
expanding her domain knowledge. Earlier work has confirmed that users can gain …

Nowadays, Linked Open Data (LOD) has grown rapidly to become large open datasets
defined by RDF standards. Thanks to development of Data Web, the information on LOD is …

Linked datasets now constitute a valuable background knowledge for supporting exploration
and discovery objectives through browsers, recommenders and exploratory search systems …

Tools for searching and interactively exploring the rapidly growing amount of semantically
annotated data on the Web are still scarce and limited in their support of the users' manifold …

The fact that the existing Web allows people to effortlessly share data over the Internet has
resulted in the accumulation of vast amounts of information available on the Web. Therefore …

Purpose–The growing volumes of semantic data available in the web result in the need for
handling the information overload phenomenon. The potential of this amount of data is …

Semantically annotating and interlinking Open Data results in Linked Open Data which
concisely and unambiguously describes a knowledge domain. However, the uptake of the …