OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) of the National University of Ireland Galway, and Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited have jointly announced a revolutionary new data storage technology that stores and queries interconnected Linked Open Data (LOD), available globally.

The technology will be made available free of charge on a cloud-based platform that utilizes LOD, thereby promoting open data usage and enabling the easy utilization of enormous volumes of LOD.

The joint development program is focused on overcoming the challenges presented by the huge quantity of LOD available via the Internet, as well as the difficulties in using and processing LOD effectively. Fujitsu Laboratories, DERI and Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe have developed an LOD-utilizing platform that, using a standard Application Programming Interface (API), is capable of batch searches of billions of pieces of stored LOD data via high-speed search algorithms that are five to ten times faster than before.

With much of the available information in LOD format coming from academic and government institutions, together with individual data sets only being available from the respective organizations' websites, it has been difficult in the past to determine the data type and location. The new technology overcomes this, incorporating a function to enable visual searches of data required by applications, using a search interface that visualizes data together with its linked information. As a result, users can instantly access the data they need, without requiring application developers to search through individual websites and process the underlying data.

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. plans to promote the use of open data, and will be the first in the world to make the newly developed technology freely available to the public, on a cloud-based platform that utilizes LOD. (Limited availability planned from 2013)