Decentralized Collaborative Knowledge Management Using Git

The World Wide Web and the Semantic Web are designed as a network of distributed services and datasets. The distributed character of the Web brings manifold collaborative possibilities to interchange data. The commonly adopted collaborative solutions for RDF data are centralized (e. g. SPARQL endpoi...

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Published in:Web semantics Vol. 54; pp. 29 - 47
Main Authors: Arndt, Natanael, Naumann, Patrick, Radtke, Norman, Martin, Michael, Marx, Edgard
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 01.01.2019
Subjects:
Distributed collaboration
Distributed version control system
Git
Knowledge engineering
RDF
Semantic Web
Semantic Web
Knowledge engineering
Git
Distributed version control system
RDF
Distributed collaboration
68P10
68P20
ISSN:1570-8268, 1873-7749
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Summary:The World Wide Web and the Semantic Web are designed as a network of distributed services and datasets. The distributed character of the Web brings manifold collaborative possibilities to interchange data. The commonly adopted collaborative solutions for RDF data are centralized (e. g. SPARQL endpoints and wiki systems). But to support distributed collaboration, a system is needed, that supports divergence of datasets, brings the possibility to conflate diverged states, and allows distributed datasets to be synchronized. In this paper, we present Quit Store, it was inspired by and it builds upon the successful Git system. The approach is based on a formal expression of evolution and consolidation of distributed datasets. During the collaborative curation process, the system automatically versions the RDF dataset and tracks provenance information. It also provides support to branch, merge, and synchronize distributed RDF datasets. The merging process is guarded by specific merge strategies for RDF data. Finally, we use our reference implementation to show overall good performance and demonstrate the practical usability of the system.
ISSN:1570-8268
1873-7749
DOI:10.1016/j.websem.2018.08.002