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API-centric Linked Data integration

Authors:

Antonis Loizou,

Alasdair J.G. Gray,

Steve PettiferAuthors Info & Claims

Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Volume 29, Issue C

Pages 12 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2014.03.003

Published: 01 December 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Data integration is a key challenge faced in pharmacology where there are numerous heterogeneous databases spanning multiple domains (e.g.źchemistry and biology). To address this challenge, the Open PHACTS consortium has developed the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform that leverages Linked Data to provide integrated access to pharmacology databases. Between its launch in April 2013 and March 2014, the platform has been accessed over 13.5źmillion times and has multiple applications that integrate with it. In this work, we discuss how Application Programming Interfaces can extend the classical Linked Data Application Architecture to facilitate data integration. Additionally, we show how the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform implements this extended architecture.

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Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Volume 29, Issue C

December 2014

67 pages

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