Version 5, last updated by Robert Isele at October 12, 2011 07:07 UTC

A linkage rule specifies how two data items are compared for similarity. A linkage rule consists of four basic components:

  • Path Input Retrieves values from a entity by a given RDF path e.g. ?movie/dbpedia:director/rdfs:label
  • Transformation Applies a data transformation to all values e.g. lowerCase
  • Comparison Evaluates the similarity of two inputs based on a user-defined distance measure and returns a confidence.
  • Aggregation Aggregates multiple confidence values.