DataConf and Its Linked Open Data Ecosystem: Produce, Link and Consume Scientific Conference Metadata
Résumé
DataConf is a mobile Web mashup application that allows brows-
ing conference metadata (publications, authors, authors’ organiza-
tions), as well as the conference schedule (tracks, sessions, talks).
It uses Linked Data and Web APIs to enrich the conference dataset
with resources (authors’ other publications, organizations homep-
ages) from different other endpoints. It also performs client-side
reasoning to retrieve and recommend publications. Unlike other
mashups, DataConf dynamically aggregates data on the client
side. Server-side calculations are devoted to the queried data
sources, not to the DataConf server itself. DataConf is easily con-
figurable and deployable for any conference with available
metadata on a SPARQL endpoint. Its component-based architec-
ture allows developing new extensions to query extra data
sources. We also propose several custom data sources, among
which SimpleSchedule that provides a convenient interface for
managing conference events and exposes them on a SPARQL
endpoint and DataPaper that allows conference participants to
enrich their own data.