PROFILES 2016 - 3rd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data

While the Web of Data, and in particular Linked Data, has seen tremendous growth over the past years, take-up, usage and reuse of data is still limited and is often focused on well-known reference datasets. As the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud includes data from a variety of domains spread across hundreds of datasets containing billions of entities and facts and is constantly evolving, manual assessment of dataset features is not feasible or sustainable, leading to brief and often outdated dataset metadata. The PROFILES'16 workshop is a continuation of the workshop series successfully started as PROFILES'14 and PROFILES'15-AT-ESWC 2014, ESWC 2015. These workshops aims to gather innovative query and search approaches for large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous linked datasets inline with dedicated approaches to analyse, describe and discover endpoints, as an inherent task of query distribution and dataset recommendation.