Linked open GeoData management in the cloud

The need to better integrate and link various isolated data sources on the web has been widely recognized and is tackled by the Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative. One of the problems to address is the issue of publishing and subsequently exploiting the data as LOD, due to reasons of data size and performance of the respective queries and to the publication complexity. This work addresses the size and performance issues by adapting the cloud as a hosting platform for LOD publication services so as to exploit its scalability and elasticity capabilities. The publication complexity issue is addressed by proposing a Linked Open Data-as-a-Service approach offering an integrated service based API for (semi)automatic publication of relational data as LOD and subsequent querying and updating capabilities.