OkkaM: Towards a Solution to the "Identity Crisis" on the Semantic Web.

Abstract

Abstract — One of the pillars of the Semantic Web enterprise is the idea that if people use standard names for resources (URIs), then the integration of information from different distributed sources will happen smoothly and efficiently simply by using URI identity as a key for merging RDF graphs into a single (virtual) graph. The question this paper will try to address is: how do we find and reuse an identifier for an entity on the (Semantic) Web? In this paper propose a system called OKKAM that is currently under development; we discuss requirements, architecture, usage scenarios and services we have developed so far to tackle this “Identity Crisis ” on the Semantic Web. I.