Eight Fallacies when querying the Web of Data

The Web of Data refers to the universal database constituted by interlinked data sources on the Web. This global system is creating a new way of publishing and consuming data on the Web. A number of assumption that were valid in bounded, controlled, closed worlds of data are now being challenged. In this paper, following the seminal ideas presented in 1994 by Peter Deutsch and later completed by James Gosling, known as “The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing” [1], we present a set of fallacies for the area of the Web of Data.