data.cnr.it is the linked open data version of the scientific data from the Italian National Research Council. It includes researchers, institutes, research programmes, publications, topics, etc.

Aldo Gangemi, Senior Researcher at CNR and SEMIC.EU National Expert explains: "We have used linked data principles, and the datasets are based on modular, pattern-based designed OWL ontologies. Data have been triplified from multiple CNR databases, and enriched by means of OWL reasoning (ABox materialization and classification), as well as by NLP and graph mining techniques, e.g. the topics for the researchers have been learnt by an automatic categorization system that uses researchers' textual signatures (textual records) against the textual signature (pages) of DBpedia categories.

Current work is on integrating a more robust identity management and its possible integration with Okkam, a deeper voiD description of the datasets, entity linking to other LOD datasets (e.g. DBLP), more vocabulary alignment (currently limited to FOAF, SKOS, and DC), etc."

For more information see: data.cnr.it