Linked Data Services for Scientists Exemplified Using Drosophila Melanogaster Datasets

Semantic technologies allow scientists to rapidly integrate data from experimental datasets and online databases. On the computational side, the massive scale of these datasets poses some challenges. We find that there are additional challenges on the human side. Problems we encounter in practice include translating human questions to SPARQL queries, adjusting data models and ontologies to match the problem space of scientists, visualising data, and providing user-friendly access.