A Change Detection Technique Supporting Nested Blank Nodes of RDF Documents

It is an important issue to find out the difference between RDF documents, because RDF documents are changed frequently. When RDF documents contain blank nodes, we need a matching technique for blank nodes in the change detection. Blank nodes have a nested form and they are used in most RDF documents. A RDF document can be modeled as a graph and it will contain many subtrees. We can consider a change detection problem as a minimum cost tree matching problem. In this paper, we propose a change detection technique for RDF documents using the labeling scheme for blank nodes. We also propose a method for improving the efficiency of general triple matching, which used predicate grouping and partitioning. In experiments, we showed that our approach was more accurate and faster than the previous approaches.