The Entity Registry System: Collaborative Editing of Entity Data in Poorly Connected Environments

There are about 4.5 billion people in the world who have no or limited Internet access. Those are deprived from using entitydriven applications that assume data repositories and entity resolution services are always available. In this paper, we discuss the need for a new architecture for entity registries. We propose and evaluate a new general-purpose Entity Registry System (ERS) supporting collaborative editing and deployment in poorly-connected or ad-hoc environments. The reference open-source implementation is evaluated for scalability and data-sharing capabilities.

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