JOPA: Accessing Ontologies in an Object-oriented Way

Martin Ledvinka, Petr Křemen

2015

Abstract

Accessing OWL ontologies programmatically by complex IT systems brings many problems stemming from ontology evolution, their open-world nature and expressiveness. This paper presents Java OWL Persistence API (JOPA), a persistence layer that allows using the object-oriented paradigm for accessing semantic web ontologies. Comparing to other approaches, it supports validation of the ontological assumptions on the object level, advanced caching, transactional approach, unification and optimization of repository access through the OntoDriver component, as well as accessing multiple repository contexts at the same time. Additionally, we present a complexity analysis of OntoDriver operations that allows optimizing object-oriented access performance for underlying storage mechanisms. Last but not least, we compare our object-oriented solution to low level Sesame API in terms of efficiency.

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Ledvinka M. and Křemen P. (2015). JOPA: Accessing Ontologies in an Object-oriented Way . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-097-0, pages 212-221. DOI: 10.5220/0005400302120221


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@conference{iceis15,
author={Martin Ledvinka and Petr Křemen},
title={JOPA: Accessing Ontologies in an Object-oriented Way},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={212-221},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005400302120221},
isbn={978-989-758-097-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - JOPA: Accessing Ontologies in an Object-oriented Way
SN - 978-989-758-097-0
AU - Ledvinka M.
AU - Křemen P.
PY - 2015
SP - 212
EP - 221
DO - 10.5220/0005400302120221