ESKAPE: Information Platform for Enabling Semantic Data Processing

André Pomp, Alexander Paulus, Sabina Jeschke, Tobias Meisen

2017

Abstract

Over the last years, many Internet of Things (IoT) platforms have been developed to manage data from public and industrial environmental settings. To handle the upcoming amounts of structured and unstructured data in those fields, a couple of these platforms use ontologies to model the data semantics. However, generating ontologies is a complex task since it requires to collect and model all semantics of the provided data. Since the (Industrial) IoT is fast and continuously evolving, a static ontology will not be able to model each requirement. To overcome this problem, we developed the platform ESKAPE, which uses semantic models in addition to data models to handle batch and streaming data on an information focused level. Our platform enables users to process, query and subscribe to heterogeneous data sources without the need to consider the data model, facilitating the creation of information products from heterogeneous data. Instead of using a pre-defined ontology, ESKAPE uses a knowledge graph which is expanded by semantic models defined by users upon their data sets. Utilizing the semantic annotations enables data source substitution and frees users from analyzing data models to understand their content. A first prototype of our platform was evaluated by a user study in form of a competitive hackathon, during which the participants developed mobile applications based on data published on the platform by local companies. The feedback given by the participants reveals the demand for platforms that are capable of handling data on a semantic level and allow users to easily request data that fits their application.

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Pomp A., Paulus A., Jeschke S. and Meisen T. (2017). ESKAPE: Information Platform for Enabling Semantic Data Processing . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-248-6, pages 644-655. DOI: 10.5220/0006324906440655


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@conference{iceis17,
author={André Pomp and Alexander Paulus and Sabina Jeschke and Tobias Meisen},
title={ESKAPE: Information Platform for Enabling Semantic Data Processing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={644-655},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006324906440655},
isbn={978-989-758-248-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - ESKAPE: Information Platform for Enabling Semantic Data Processing
SN - 978-989-758-248-6
AU - Pomp A.
AU - Paulus A.
AU - Jeschke S.
AU - Meisen T.
PY - 2017
SP - 644
EP - 655
DO - 10.5220/0006324906440655