RDF-Analytics: Interactive Analytics over RDF Knowledge Graphs

Abstract

The formulation of structured queries in knowledge graphs is a challenging task that presupposes familiarity with the syntax of the query language and the contents of the knowledge graph. To alleviate this difficulty in this paper we introduce RDF-ANALYTICS , a novel system that enables plain users to formulate analytic queries over complex, i.e. not necessarily star-schema based, RDF knowledge graphs. To come up with an intuitive interface, we leverage the familiarity of users with Faceted Search (FS) systems, i.e. we extend FS with actions that enable users to formulate analytic queries, too. Distinctive characteristics of the approach is the ability to include arbitrarily long paths in the analytic query (accompanied with count information), interactive formulation of HAVING restrictions, the support of both Faceted Search (i.e. the locating of the desired resources in a faceted search manner) and analytic queries, and the ability to formulate nested analytic queries. Finally, we present the results of a preliminary task-based evaluation with users, which are very promising.