ESWC 2013 Satellite Events, Montpellier, France, May 26-30, 2013: revised selected papers
ISBN
9783642412417
ISBN (electronic)
9783642412424
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event
10th Extended Semantic Web conference, ESWC 2013
Pages (from-to)
306-307
Publisher
Heidelberg: Springer
Organisations
Faculty of Law (FdR) - Leibniz Center for Law (FdR)
Abstract
This paper discusses the use of semantic technologies to increase quality, machine-processability, format translatability and cross-querying of complex tabular datasets. Our interest is to enable longitudinal studies of social processes in the past, and we use the historical Dutch censuses as case-study. Census data is notoriously difficult to compare, aggregate and query in a uniform fashion. We describe an approach to achieve this, discussing results, trade-offs and open problems.