Linked Data for Building a Map of Researchers.

Researchers Map is a simple mash-up application that provides a map of professors of the German database community, or more precisely, of the professors’ workplaces, based on data that is published following the Linked Data principles.

Abstract

Researchers Map 1 is a simple mash-up application that provides a map of professors of the German database community, or more precisely, of the professors’ workplaces (cf. Figure 1). The list of professors represented in the map can be filtered by research interests such as query optimization or data warehousing. Selecting a professor opens a list of her/his publications. We developed Researchers Map to showcase the potential of Linked Data for mash-up applications. For this reason, Researchers Map is solely based on data that is published following the Linked Data principles [1]. Fig. 1. Screenshot of Researchers Map Researchers Map is a prototype for a new kind of applications which enable users to retain full control over their data. To appear on the Researchers Map the professors do not have to enter their data (e.g. workplace address and research interests) in a form which is used to collect data for a database. Instead, each professor manages and publishes her data with her own content management system (CMS). Researchers Map only needs a URI that represents the 1