The web of data has brought forth the need to preserve and sustain evolving information within linked datasets; however, a basic requirement of data preservation is the maintenance of the datasets’ structural characteristics as well. As open data are often found using different and/or heterogeneous data models and schemata from one source to another, there is a need to reconcile these mismatche...

In this paper we present our efforts towards the design of vRank. The “Vocabulary for Ranking” allows to formally materialize ranking data algorithms. We justify the need for such a vocabulary and we show potential applications in the context of Linked Data consumption.

As part of the Linking Open Data initiative many (community) platforms have made their data freely available in recent years. In these systems valuable information from the music domain can be found. We use this data for contentbased music recommendations thus not requiring expensive metadata annotations from domain experts. In this demo paper we present a system that uses data from the Freebas...

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 matc...

We report our experiment results on the INEX 2012 Linked Data Track. We participated in the ad hoc and jeopardy tasks. As the new data collection on INEX 2012 Linked Data Track features a combination of unstructured and structured data, our first attempt is to investigate different strategies of combining the retrievals over structured and unstructured data, and compare the combined approaches ...

background while hepatitis e virus (hev) mostly causes self-limited disease in general population, it is more severe in pregnant women. objectives this study aimed to investigate the seroprevalence of anti-hev igg among a population of pregnant women in west azerbaijan of . patients and methods one hundred thirty six pregnant women referred to urban health centers of urmia for pursuing pregnanc...

materials and methods a total of 228 fecal samples were collected from residents of rural areas of hamadan, west of iran. each fecal sample was divided into two parts, one kept frozen at -20˚c for ag-capture elisa and the other in 10% formalin for the ap staining method. cryptosporidium ag-detection elisa procedure was performed according to the manual of the manufacturer. the preserved samples...

the data set used in this study contained 8793 records of lamb's longevity (days) from 320 sires and 2349 dams collected during 1989 to 2014, from the lori-bakhtiari flock at shooli station in shahrekord, iran. genetic parameters (partitioned into autosomal, sex-linked and maternal) and breeding values of cumulative lamb's longevity from birth up to yearling age (at 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and ...

background herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 (hsv-1 and hsv-2) are common infectious agents worldwide. data on prevalence of hsv-1 and hsv-2 infections are limited in asia, especially in iran. our study aimed on determination of seroepidemiology of hsv-1 and hsv-2 infections in asymptomatic healthy students of islamic azad university of kazeroun, fars province, southwest of iran. patients ...