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==Towards Linked Data Update Notifications Reviewing and Generalizing the SparqlPuSH Approach==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1435/NoISE2015_paper_3.pdf
Towards Linked Data Update Notifications
Reviewing and Generalizing the sparqlPuSH approach
Magnus Knuth1 , Dinesh Reddy1 , Anastasia Dimou2 ,
Sahar Vahdati3 , and George Kastrinakis4
1
Hasso Plattner Institute – University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany,
magnus.knuth@hpi.de, dinesh.reddy@hpi.de
2
Ghent University – iMinds, Ghent, Belgium,
anastasia.dimou@ugent.be
3
Institute of Computer Science III – University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany,
vahdati@uni-bonn.de
4
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece,
george.kastrinakis91@gmail.com
Abstract. Linked Data resources change over time in terms of both
content and relationships among them. Resources in a dataset might
be frequently inserted, deleted, updated, and linked to other resources.
Datasets are consumed in a lot of useful applications that would bene-
fit from real-time notifications when data changes in RDF data stores.
sparqlPuSH describes a notification service for updates in RDF stores.
Analyzing this approach and the implementation for applicability, it be-
came obvious that a number of serious constituent problems have not
been addressed and remain unsolved. In this paper, we review sparql-
PuSH approach and we introduce our own vision and ideas in extending
and generalizing it.
Keywords: Linked Data, change notifications, RDF, SPARQL, update
1 Introduction
The Web of Data provides an enormous variety of content published to be
(re)used in applications and interlinked with other datasets. Linked datasets
change over time in terms of both links between resources and the content itself.
Resources in a dataset might be frequently inserted, deleted, updated, and linked
to other resources. The reasons for such updates can be manifold, e. g. availability
of new data items, data quality improvements, agents feedback, etc. Therefore,
Linked Data consumers need to be informed with real-time notifications when
data changes in external RDF data stores.
This paper acknowledges the work of Passant and Mendes [14] while showing
the shortcomings that make their solution a hardly generalizable artifact. Besides
highlighting the inherent problems, we suggest generalizable solutions, whereas
we conclude that some problems call for compromise solutions depending on the
dataset characteristics.
At first we describe our motivation towards linked data notifications in Sec-
tion 2. Then in Section 3 we briefly explain the sparqlPuSH approach, benefits
of using SPARQL, and Push vs. Pull notification mechanisms. Further in Sec-
tion 4, we discuss preliminaries and shortcomings of the sparqlPuSH approach.
Furthermore, we shortlist the requirements to overcome shortcomings of the
sparqlPuSH approach and discuss existing open research problems in Section 5
and 6 respectively. Finally in Section 7, we summarize our conclusions and future
work.
2 Motivation
In the vast Web 2.0, it is rather difficult to get live updates or notifications
about the information we want at more concrete level, for instance about a
particular concept or event. One might be interested in following a particular
topic (e. g. Greek Elections), or getting live updates about a particular company
from stock market. Unfortunately, one can get notified through e-mails and RSS
feeds only at abstract level, e. g. about recent news articles related to these
concepts, but not real-time and on a concrete level, e. g. about a particular
resource description. This occurs because it is still not possible to take advantage
of valuable information hidden in articles in an automated way, and thus, users
still have to spend lot of time to distinguish the information they need from the
retrieved resource.
Taking advantage of Semantic Web technologies we aim to overcome this
problem. From the information retrieval point of view, in comparison to tra-
ditional keyword search, SPARQL queries provide a more expressive means to
describe user’s information needs. There are a number of Linked Data based
services that would benefit from user notifications at concrete level:
– Personal notifications regarding new/updated data of interest, such as real
estate offers, product and product price information, or upcoming confer-
ences, new interesting papers, and new citations of own papers.
– Cache invalidation for applications that temporarily keep copies of external
data for reduced data access times.
– Interlinked Datasets Linked Data applications typically use multiple sources.
Often these data sources are updated, affecting existing links which might
end up being broken or resource URI’s might be updated. Notifying sub-
scribers on time about updated links, such that they, in their turn, update
these dataset links respectively.
Currently, the pioneer Linked Data notification approach, sparqlPuSH, allows
users to register with a SPARQL query and get updates pushed to the user as
new matching triples arrive in an underlying triple store containing relevant data.
However, the sparqlPuSH implementation presents limitations (c. f. Section 4.2)
that make it not applicable in all of the aforementioned cases and not able to
deal with the constantly evolving RDF data available at Web scale.
3 sparqlPuSH approach
The sparqlPuSH approach [14] describes a notification service for updates in RDF
stores. It relies on SPARQL queries, tracks changes of the result set, published
as an RSS feed, and broadcasts change notifications via the PubSubHubbub
protocol [5]. It allows any application with a SPARQL endpoint to broadcasts
change notifications of RDF data in real-time. Once a user registered a SPARQL
query related to his information need, he gets notified when data within the store
related to that query changes, i. e. when the result set varies compared to the
previous state.
3.1 Defining information needs using SPARQL
Defining a SPARQL query is a rather expressive way to express an information
need against an RDF dataset. It allows to construct and filter arbitrary graph
patterns. SPARQL provides four different query forms: SELECT, ASK, DESCRIBE,
and CONSTRUCT which return solutions in the form of result sets or RDF graphs
providing information according to the user’s needs. For illustration, we list a
few SPARQL queries which can likely be used for notification.
(Q1) Specific resource characteristics, e. g. when the president of Italy changes.
SELECT ?pres WHERE { :Italy :leader ?pres . }
(Q2) Information that is not present yet, e.ġ. notify when there is a female presi-
dent of the United States.
SELECT ?pres WHERE { :United_States :leader ?pres .
?pres :gender :Female . }
(Q3) Signaling a status change, e. g. notify when the proceedings of a particular
workshop got published.
ASK { :NoISE15 :proceedings ?proc .
?proc :publishedBy ?publisher . }
(Q4) Monitoring individual resource descriptions, e. g. notify when the resource of
the city of Berlin got updated.
DESCRIBE
(Q5) Construction of new triples, e. g. notify when new resources with the same
unique identifier (inverse functional property) pop up in the dataset.
CONSTRUCT { ?a owl:sameAs ?b } WHERE { ?a :hasUniqueID ?id .
?b :hasUniqueID ?id . FILTER (?a != ?b) }
3.2 Push (notification) vs. Pull (polling)
There are two distinct ways to inform consumers about data changes.
– Pull mechanisms demand the user to poll a resource, such as an RSS feed,
frequently in order to detect an update, that might be useful to downsize
complex requests. But consumers are not informed immediately when data
changes.
– Push mechanisms, such as remote procedure calls (RPC) and webhooks,
notify the consumer proactively and reduce the amount of requests in an
efficient way.
Both approaches are eligible and should be supported. PubSubHubbub defines
a scalable mechanism to do so. It is a protocol based on the Atom model of expos-
ing services by feeds, extending Atom’s pull mechanics with a Publish-Subscribe
mechanism. It allows clients to subscribe callbacks with “hubs”. Whenever a
feed gets updated, the clients will be notified through their callbacks [5].
4 Preliminaries
4.1 State of the Art
The study of Linked Data notifications is very relevant for a broad range of ap-
plication domains. Earlier studies related to detecting changes in the RDF data
are: DSNotify [6], a generic framework introduced to fix broken links between
different datasources and a datasource itself. Resource SubscrIption and Noti-
fication sErvice (rsine) [11] is a framework that notifies subscribers whenever
resources are updated, created, or removed. It is comparable to sparqlPuSH but
is designed to operate on a more general level. In contrast to sparqlPuSH, rsine
intends to maintain quality of controlled vocabularies. Boca RDF [12] provides
a change detection sub-system based on Sun’s Java messaging service. Users
will get notifications while there is any change in single RDF statements or the
entire graph. PingTheSemanticWeb 5 (PTSW in short) provides notification ser-
vices about recently created or changed RDF documents. It offeres XML-RPC
and REST APIs pointing to the time and location of the latest updated RDF
Data Source.
4.2 sparqlPuSH Shortcomings
Even though the sparqlPuSH approach is well-grounded, the existing sparql-
PuSH implementation is rather limited to a certain use case. The implemen-
tation is intended to be used for micro-blogging notifications and can not be
generalized for broader but common user information needs.
Firstly, the presented implementation of sparqlPuSH imposes strong restric-
tions on SPARQL queries:
(1) Only SELECT queries are allowed.
(2) The query should contain a ?uri and a ?date variable in the SELECT clause.
(3) Beyond that, only ?label and ?author variables are allowed in the result.
These restrictions work for the selected micro-blogging use-case but allow
only a very limited application. Even though the authors claim their system “can
be plugged on top of any SPARQL endpoint”, it is not possible to generalize
the approach in order to fit common information needs on different datasets.
5
http://pingthesemanticweb.com
Furthermore, these restrictions mask out the actual difficulties that come along
with allowing arbitrary queries. While the ?date variable allows to identify a
modification by simply keeping the last modification date, typical queries do not
have such an indicator per sé. A generic solution should not rely on the values
of the variables of the result set to compare two subsequent versions, but any
returned result set should be compared with the latest results derived from the
SPARQL endpoint.
Secondly, the presented implementation demands updates to be done via
the sparqlPuSH interface itself, in order to trigger change events. It is there-
fore limited to SPARQL endpoints that are under full control of the notification
service provider. Depending on the RDF store, changes can typically be made
via multiple update methods. E. g., the OpenLink Virtuoso triplestore addition-
ally provides a Conductor UI and a JDBC/ODBC compliant ISQL interface.
RDB2RDF servers often do not provide a SPARQL Update compliant endpoint,
because they work as one-way RDF exporters. Detecting change events is cru-
cial for knowing when to re-evaluate (which) registered queries and triggers are
typically not available.
5 Requirements
Based on the original sparqlPuSH approach and in order to address the limita-
tions of the case-specific implementation, we summarize the requirements and
propose generic solutions, considering the current state of the art.
(R1) Processing arbitrary SPARQL queries
The service should be able to support all types of SPARQL queries. Since
SPARQL queries is based around graph pattern matching, both basic graph
patterns and any form of group graph patterns should be covered.
(R2) Application on any accessible SPARQL interface
The service should be able to work on top of any SPARQL interface, includ-
ing any public external endpoint, as well as internal endpoints or any other
SPARQL interface, e. g. a client of Triple Pattern Fragments6 or a query
directly executed against a file with data in RDF.
(R3) Avoidance of unnecessary load to SPARQL interfaces
The service should avoid any unnecessary load towards the utilized SPARQL
interfaces, i. e. queries should only be re-evaluated when a change can be
assumed, data transmission should be minimized and requests delayed.
(R4) Sufficiently expressive description of what has changed
Within the feed a description of the change should be given, that allows the
agent to determine the relevance of a change.
6
http://client.linkeddatafragments.org/
6 Open Research Problems
Derived from the imposed requirements R1 to R4 and the assessment of the
sparqlPuSH implementation, we identified a number of constituent problems
that are currently unsolved.
(P1) Handling large SPARQL query results (R1, R2, R3)
(P2) Comparison of SPARQL query results (R1)
(P3) Scheduling the re-evaluation of SPARQL queries (R3)
(P4) Equality of SPARQL queries (R3)
(P5) Describing changes in SPARQL query results (R4)
6.1 Handling large SPARQL result sets
The main disadvantage of using SPARQL queries for detecting changes within a
dataset is that results can get enormously huge. In order to compare the current
result set of a query with another one in the future, the complete results have to
be retrieved and sufficient information about the current result has to be stored.
E. g. a query for all known redirects on DBpedia 2014 returns a result set with
6,473,988 rows, equaling ~650 MByte serialized as TSV and ~1.3 GByte as XML:
SELECT ?a ?b WHERE { ?a dbo:wikiPageRedirects ?b . }
Moreover, public SPARQL endpoints often do not return the complete result
set. For performance reasons their result set size is typically limited, e. g. to
a value of 10,000 rows [3]. To get the complete result set, this needs to be
circumvented technically, e. g. by paginated requests7 . Thus, one challenge is
to keep the amount of data that needs to be transmitted and stored as low as
possible. Storing and transmitting the whole result set may be very expensive
for particular queries.
We propose the following research question: How can the SPARQL result size
be limited efficiently without losing relevant information for change detection?
Aggregation One solution would be to request (and store) aggregates about
SPARQL queries. Aggregates are typically way smaller but only deliver incom-
plete information. A given SPARQL SELECT query can be rewritten in order to
retrieve only the number of results (result set rows) and only store that number
instead of the original result: SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE ... This number can be
compared with the number of results of a following result. This allows to find
changes to the data where the number of result sets differs, i. e. we miss those
changes where the number of results remains equal while the content changes.
Nevertheless, this approach fits well for datasets that data is exclusively added.
Similarly, a query could be rewritten to return a minimum, maximum, or
average value for a particular variable. For minimum and maximum values, we
7
E. g. by using QueryExecutionFactoryPaginated from the Jena SPARQL API:
https://github.com/AKSW/jena-sparql-api
have to assume that data would be added or removed in a particular order on
a particular variable, e. g. SELECT MAX(?releaseDate) WHERE ... could work
for a dataset containing news items which have a publishing date. Certainly,
it would be necessary to understand the characteristics of the dataset and the
semantics of the query in order to rewrite a query automatically in such a way.
When using aggregates it might be possible to compare result sets for a
change, though the change can only be described in an equally aggregated from.
Hashing A common way to compare large amounts of data is to create hash
values for the data, store the hashes and later if the data needs to be compared,
just compare the hashes. As hash values typically have a length less than 128 Byte
the amount of data to store can be reduced. The probability that two different
result sets for the same query produce equal hash values is extremely low as
long as the serialization format and the order of the results remain the same. By
using hash values it is possible to compare result sets for equality, though it can
not be concluded in which way or to which extend the result set changed.
The hash functions built in SPARQL 1.18 can be used on the result set
solution level, in order to compact large-size RDF terms.
Streaming An alternative approach to compare large result sets, that lately
gains ground, rely on streaming the result sets of SPARQL queries. Triple Pat-
tern Fragments servers is such a solution that resolve queries for basic triple
patterns while Triple Pattern Fragment clients resolve queries of any type of
group patterns.
6.2 Comparison of SPARQL query results
Another challenge is to guarantee a high reliability of the comparison method,
i. e. changes should be reported if and only if the result set really changed.
We propose the following research question: How can the SPARQL results be
effectively and efficiently compared?
ASK queries are considered to test whether or not a query pattern has a
solution. Such queries are ideal for queries that no information is expected to
be returned about the possible result set, just whether or not a solution exists
(e. g. Q3). Comparison of boolean results for ASK queries is trivial.
DESCRIBE and CONSTRUCT queries RDF graphs being the result of
DESCRIBE and CONSTRUCT can be compared by usual RDF Diff implementations9 .
The main problem of detecting graph differences is the canonical labelling of
blank nodes, which is an issue of the graph isomorphism problem [16]. Ongoing
research addresses these issue, whereas [7] seems promising.
8
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#func-hash
9
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/How_to_diff_RDF
SELECT queries For comparison of SPARQL SELECT query result sets it needs
to be distinguished between ordered and unordered result sets. For ordered result
sets each row in the result set needs to match the row with identical index in
the other result set. While for unordered result sets each row of the result set
has a matching row in the other result set.
The Jena ARQ API10 provides an implementation of ResultSetCompare
which allows to check equivalence of result sets either by value or order. The im-
plementations return only a boolean result and don’t provide an analysis of the
difference between the result sets, which would be beneficial for change descrip-
tions. Internally the result sets after some elementary checks are transformed to
RDF graphs using the W3C result set vocabulary 11 and then these graphs are
compared for equivalence. Here, the same problem of graph isomorphism applies
and blank nodes in result sets should be avoided.
In the case of Triple Pattern Fragments, a first comparison can rely on the
metadata. If the total number of triples count has changed, it indicates that the
result set of triples of a certain graph pattern has changed. If the number of
total triples remains the same, processing of graph patterns is required at the
client side based on the results returned from the server. A change in one of the
requested patterns indicates a (possible) change in the final result set.
6.3 Scheduling
The third challenge is to evaluate the best time to perform the next check for
updates. The simplest solution would be to revalidate all queries at defined time
intervals or using a round-robin (RR) appproach. But since such a check is costly
and produces unnecessary load to the SPARQL interface if there was no update,
it should be performed only when a relevant change is likely to have happened.
The research question is: How to determine the best time at which a relevant
data change has occured?
Dataset Descriptions Datasets have varying characteristics concerning their
update frequency, e. g. DBpedia is usually updated once a year while DBpedia
Live resources constantly change as soon as relevant changes have been made to
the respective Wikipedia article or the DBpedia Mappings.
The VoID vocabulary [1] enables descriptions of an RDF dataset’s character-
istics. It contains concepts to describe general metadata (e. g. licenses, author),
access metadata (e. g. SPARQL endpoint, data dump URI, lookup URIs), and
structural metadata (e. g. patterns, partitionings, vocabularies statistics). In ad-
dition, one can describe the relations with other datasets using a linkset. The
void:triples, void:entities and void:documents, void:distinctObjects,
or void:distinctSubjects could be considered to assess if the result set of a
SPARQL query has changed. While those numbers could act as an indicator of
changes, combinations of updates could result in the same numbers.
10
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/
11
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/result-set
The DCAT vocabulary12 is the W3C standard to be used for the descrip-
tion of data catalogs. Data catalogs are centralized indexes or repositories that
contain dataset metadata. DCAT contains high-level metadata for such cata-
logs (e. g. title, licenses, version) and datasets (e. g. keywords, language). Among
other properties, the DCAT recommendation proposed the use of dct:date,
dct:accrualPeriodicity, dct:created, dcterms:issued, and dct:modified
properties to describe the metadata of a dataset and in our case for the result
set. If the modification date of a dataset is at a later time slot than the last query
execution, the result set for the queries for this dataset should be re-evaluated.
Sensoring updates Dataset publishers could provide a dataset update notifi-
cation process by themselves in order to trigger a query re-evaluation.
In the use case of DBpedia Live, updates to the dataset occur almost continu-
ously and the actual changesets (updates in form of inserted and removed triples)
are available. Still it is not trivial to compute the necessity of re-evaluation of
particular SPARQL queries based on this changesets.
Estimating update intervals If there is no reliable modification data available
for a dataset, update intervals could be learned by the system. A record of
changes on a dataset would indicate when the next update might occur.
Simple estimations on cached object freshness are implemented in web proxy
server software, such as the Apache Traffic Server 13 . The freshness limit of an
HTTP object is typically determined based on the time interval of the most
recent modification. As the freshness limit of a query would exceed, it is needed
to be revalidated. The scheduling adapts to the change characteristics of the
query, as in case the result set is still fresh, the next validation will be scheduled
with an increased freshness limit.
6.4 Equality of SPARQL queries
With an increasing number of registered SPARQL queries, it becomes likely that
duplicates occur. Different queries might meet the same information need and
return the same results. Moreover, there are unlimited possibilities to express
the same query. Regarding a SPARQL query as a string of characters, a simple
change of binding names or prefix definitions, a varying order and the manifold
possibilities for abbreviated notation of basic graph patterns, alternative prop-
erty path expressions, optional whitespaces, etc. will lead to unequal queries.
Beyond syntax variations, completely different queries could behave exactly the
same on a particular dataset, as e. g. when the dataset contains equivalent classes
and queries ask for another one of these classes in each case.
In order to avoid such duplicate queries, it is necessary to match queries with
those already registered. A user could be suggested to re-use an already existing
12
http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/
13
http://trafficserver.apache.org/
query, or the query and respectively the query results could be rewritten to fit
an equivalent query transparently to the user. In order to ensure the soundness
and completeness of the rewriting, the results of the existing query must be able
to be used to produce the same results as executing the original query.
Dividino and Gröner summarize the efforts on detecting equal or similar
SPARQL queries [4] and formulate the research question: Which of the following
SPARQL queries are similar? Why?.
Syntactical Query Similarity Syntax variations could be eliminated by trans-
forming queries to their canonical form. There have been efforts towards nor-
malizing graph pattern [15] and fragments of the SPARQL language [9], to our
knowledge there is no canonical form for general SPARQL queries so far. Syntac-
tical similarity approaches often rely on the Levenshtein distance [10, 13] either
on the whole query string or parts, such as the triple patterns. However, a small
Levenshtein distance does not necessarily indicate that queries are semantically
related or represent equal information needs. For this reason these approaches
seem inappropriate, at least for detecting equal queries.
Structural Query Similarity Query rewriting applications commonly use
similarity measures based on graph matching. In essence, queries are represented
as a graph and the goal is to find the maximum common sub-graphs among such
query graphs. Le et al. define a similarity metric representing the structural
overlap of two queries and propose an efficient algorithm for query rewriting of
simple queries (i. e. without FILTER) [8]. Letelier et al. transform the SPARQL
fragment of well-defined queries into pattern trees and based on that provide
testing of query equivalence and containment [9].
6.5 Describing changes in SPARQL query results
Within the feed a description of the change should be given in a formal way,
that allows an agent to determine the relevance of a change in his context. It
is currently unclear, what information a user would consider relevant. In many
cases it might be sufficient to be notified about any change, since running the
local update process might be less expensive, than evaluating the implications
of a particular change.
We formulate the following research question: How can changes of SPARQL
query results be described in an extent useful to the end user?
Result set change as RDF change Not only the result sets returned for the
same queries are of interest to be explicitely described, but also the transition
from the one result set to the other. To describe a result set change in full depth,
all alteration must be described.
To this end, SPARQL SELECT query result sets should be serialized as RDF
using the W3C result set vocabulary. This allows to describe result set changes as
RDF changes. Another advantage of this approach is that changes of DESCRIBE
and CONSTRUCT queries can be described in the same or comparable way.
There are a number of schemas defined to describe RDF changes:
Delta ontology [2] tries to uniquely identify what is changing and to distin-
guish between the pieces added and removed.
Changesets 14 defines a set of terms for describing changes to resource descrip-
tions. The vocabulary introduces the notion of a ChangeSet which encapsulates
the delta between two versions of a resource description which is represented by
two sets of triples: additions and removals.
Graph Update Ontology 15 (GUO) is aiming at enabling lightweight RDF
graph updates and graph synchronisation per triple level. GUO tries to com-
plement SPARQL UPDATE without the need for Quads (as in TriG or TRiX)
or Reification (as in Changesets).
RDF Patch 16 is a file format for recording changes made to an RDF dataset
and can be used for replicating changes between multiple copies of the same
dataset, in this case of the result set. The changes are recorded considering the
triples which are added or deleted to the default graph, and the quad for a named
graph.
7 Conclusions
In this paper we identified requirements for an effective change notification sys-
tem for the Web of Data. We evaluated existing approaches for notifications with
the most prominent approach, sparqlPuSH, that currently exists, showing only a
limited functionality but acting though as potential demonstrator. We identified
issues that need to be tackled in order to achieve the desired functionality in a
generic fashion. These issues are non-trivial problems, which should be targeted
by future research. Regarding performance and scalability, we concluded that
there might not be an ultimate solution for these problems, different solutions
rather depend on the given setting and should be evaluated as such. We initiated
an implementation of the described notification system, which is thought to be
a generic framework for covering multiple solutions for the named issues.
8 Acknowledgements
The work presented is part of the author’s hackaton project for the Web Intel-
ligence Summer School 201417 .
14
http://vocab.org/changeset/schema.html
15
http://webr3.org/specs/guo/
16
http://afs.github.io/rdf-patch/
17
http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/WI_2014_Site/
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