Research

Working with us

The Comunica project has been initiated by IDLab at Ghent University – imec as a framework for researching query execution over decentralized knowledge graphs on the Web. Since Comunica is open-source, anyone is free to use it to perform any research they want.

If you are interested in collaborating, or working on Comunica as a Bachelor/Master/PhD student, feel free to contact us. We always have interesting projects to offer on both applied development and fundamental research.

Cite

If you are using or extending Comunica as part of a scientific publication, we would appreciate a citation of our article.

@inproceedings{taelman_iswc_resources_comunica_2018,
  author    = {Taelman, Ruben and Van Herwegen, Joachim and Vander Sande, Miel and Verborgh, Ruben},
  title     = {Comunica: a Modular SPARQL Query Engine for the Web},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference},
  year      = {2018},
  month     = oct,
  url       = {https://comunica.github.io/Article-ISWC2018-Resource/}
}

Experiments

The following experiments have been done with Comunica:

• Link Traversal
• Versioning
• Approximate Membership Functions

Publications

The following publications make significant use of Comunica:

• Optimizing Approximate Membership Metadata in Triple Pattern Fragments for Clients and Servers. Taelman, R., Van Herwegen, J., Vander Sande, M., & Verborgh, R. (2020) (Learn more)
• Discovering Data Sources in a Distributed Networkof Heritage Information. M., de Valk, S., Meijers, E., Taelman, R., Van De Sompel, H., & Verborgh, R. (2019)
• Computational integrity for outsourced execution of SPARQL queries. Morel, S (2019)
• Querying heterogeneous linked building datasets with context-expanded GraphQL queries. Werbrouck, J., Senthilvel, M., Beetz, J., & Pauwels, P. (2019)
• Using an Existing Website as a Queryable Low-Cost LOD Publishing Interface. Van de Vyvere, B., Taelman, R., Colpaert, P., & Verborgh, R. (2019, June).
• SAD Generator: eating our own dog food to generate KGs and websites for academic events. Heyvaert, P., Chaves-Fraga, D., Priyatna, F., Sequeda, J., & Dimou, A. (2019, June).
• Versioned Querying with OSTRICH and Comunica in MOCHA 2018. Taelman, R., Vander Sande, M., & Verborgh, R. (2018, June)

Also using Comunica in our work? Let us know so we can add a reference to this list.

Tutorials

The following conference tutorials make use of Comunica:

• Building Decentralized Applications with Solid and Comunica. Ruben Taelman, Joachim Van Herwegen, Ruben Verborgh. Full-day tutorial at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), Auckland, New Zealand, 2019.
• Querying Linked Data with Comunica. Ruben Taelman, Joachim Van Herwegen. Half-day tutorial at the 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2019), Portoroz, Slovenia, 2019.
• Knowledge Representation as Linked Data: Tutorial. Van Herwegen, J., Heyvaert, P., Taelman, R., De Meester, B. and Dimou, A. Tutorial at the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.