LOD-a-lot democratizes access to the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud by serving more than 28 billion unique triples from 650K datasets from a single self-indexed file. This corpus can be queried online with a sustainable Linked Data Fragments interface, or it can be downloaded and consumed locally: LOD-a-lot is easy to deploy and only requires limited resources (524 GB of disk space and 15.7 GB of RAM), enabling web-scale repeatable experimentation and research from a high-end laptop.
With the Web serving as a huge worldwide data repository, issues related to data semantics (familiar to database modelers since the 1970s) have again become of paramount importance. As Web data comes from heterogeneous, possibly ...