Semantic data services: An approach to access and manipulate Linked Data

This paper proposes a specification for Semantic Data Services (SDS), i.e., data services built on Semantic Web technologies and aligned to the REST architectural style. SDS is a concrete implementation of the abstract and semantic interfaces of the SERIN specification. To support it, SERIN was extended with the inclusion of annotations for checking integrity constraints, inspired by the relational data model. Providing mechanisms for checking integrity is essential to facilitate data update by software agents adhering to the principles of Linked Data.