LOTUS: A Search Engine for the Web of Data

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It is surprisingly difficult to find things on today's Web of Data.  You need an IRI to start traversing the interconnected knowledge graph.  But how do you find such a resource-denoting IRI? On the Web of Documents you can use a search engine.  Unfortunately, there are currently no search engines for the Web of Data. This is where LOTUS kicks in.

LOTUS, or Linked Open Text UnleaShed, is a text-based entry point to a large subset of today's Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud.  It allows 2 billion unique Linked Data IRIs to be searched based on an index that
covers 4.3 billion literals. Advanced users can further customize the text-based retrieval in LOTUS to fit better a wealth of use cases. Try it out over at http://lodsearch.org.

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The Network Institute, VU Amsterdam

VU University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1105
1081HV Amsterdam
Netherlands