WRAPPING AND INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS RELATIONAL DATA WITH OWL

Seksun Suwanmanee, Djamal Benslimane, Pierre-Antoine Champin, Philippe Thiran

2005

Abstract

The Web-based information systems have been much developed since the Internet is known as a global accessible open network. The Semantic Web vision aims at providing supplementary meaningful information (meta-data) about Web resources in order to facilitate automatic processing by machines and interoperability between different systems. In this paper, we present an approach for the integration of heterogeneous databases in the Semantic Web context using semantic mediation approach based on ontology. The standard OWL language is used here as the ontology description language to formalize ontologies of local data resources and to describe their semantic correspondences in order to construct an integrated information system. We propose an architecture adopting mediator-wrapper approach for a mediation based on OWL. Some illustrations of database wrapping and semantic mediation using OWL are also presented in the paper.

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Suwanmanee S., Benslimane D., Champin P. and Thiran P. (2005). WRAPPING AND INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS RELATIONAL DATA WITH OWL . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 11-18. DOI: 10.5220/0002527200110018


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Seksun Suwanmanee and Djamal Benslimane and Pierre-Antoine Champin and Philippe Thiran},
title={WRAPPING AND INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS RELATIONAL DATA WITH OWL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={11-18},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002527200110018},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - WRAPPING AND INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS RELATIONAL DATA WITH OWL
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Suwanmanee S.
AU - Benslimane D.
AU - Champin P.
AU - Thiran P.
PY - 2005
SP - 11
EP - 18
DO - 10.5220/0002527200110018