OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited today announced the development of technology that can discover and automatically link data representing the same underlying subject among Linked Open Data (LOD) available throughout the world and individual data sets maintained by governments and companies.

LOD is starting to come into wider use as a mechanism for publishing data on the Internet. Each individual LOD record is intended to be linked to data published on other websites, and by following these links, users can traverse multiple websites to access the data they need. When publishing data under the LOD approach, however, it can be challenging to interpret published data and determine which data is related in order to link to data on other websites.

The new technology enables inferences as to when data records refer to the same thing based on similarities in their notation and data structures, thereby making it possible to assign links. For example, the technology is expected to help increase the value of open data by making it possible to use LOD published by governments in combination with data held by companies and other LOD throughout the world.