Efficient Change Detection between RDF Models Using Backward Chaining Strategy
Dong-Hyuk Im, Hyoung-Joo Kim · 2009
RDF is widely used as the ontology language for representing metadata on the semantic web. Since ontology models the real-world, ontology changes overtime. Thus, it is very important to detect and analyze changes in knowledge base system. Earlier studies on detecting changes between RDF models focused on the structural differences. Some techniques which reduce the size of the delta by considering the RDFS entailment rules have been introduced. However, inferencing with RDF models increases data size and upload time. In this paper, we propose a new change detection using RDF reasoning that only computes a small part of the implied triples using backward chaining strategy. We show that our approach efficiently detects changes through experiments with real-life RDF datasets.