Best Poster Award at Semantic Web Conference

Heiko Paulheim, now in Mannheim, and Sven Hertling, a student at TU Darmstadt, have won the best poster award at the International Semantic Web Conference 2013 for their joint work "Discoverability of SPARQL Endpoints in Linked Open Data".

The work provides an experimental analysis of different approaches for automatically discovering a SPARQL endpoint, given the URI of a resource. The results show that mechanisms such as VoID and Provenance are still not adopted widely enough for creating a reliable service, and that catalogues such as DataHub are often outdated and may contain unreliable information.