CONVERTING RELATIONAL DATABASE INTO OWL ONTOLOGY BY MULTI-WAY SEMANTICS EXTRACTION

Sohee Jang, Insuk Park, Hoyun Cho, Soon Joo Hyun

2007

Abstract

Semantic Web provides means to share well-defined meaning of terms with semantically annotated information. In the current Web, most of the Web applications generate Web contents dynamically at the time of user request from underlying relational databases. To represent the relational data to the Semantic Web environment, the relational data should be transformed into the ontology form. In this paper, we propose a Semantic Web technique to convert relational database into ontology in OWL using multi-way semantics extraction technique. Extracted from E/R modeling components, schema descriptions and stored data, the generated ontology will provide application developers with rich semantics so as to quickly build a knowledge base for advanced Semantic Web services. Extracting the semantic information out of the traditional databases will provide enterprises with more opportunities for many value-added services.

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Jang S., Park I., Cho H. and Joo Hyun S. (2007). CONVERTING RELATIONAL DATABASE INTO OWL ONTOLOGY BY MULTI-WAY SEMANTICS EXTRACTION . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 563-568. DOI: 10.5220/0002383105630568


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Sohee Jang and Insuk Park and Hoyun Cho and Soon Joo Hyun},
title={CONVERTING RELATIONAL DATABASE INTO OWL ONTOLOGY BY MULTI-WAY SEMANTICS EXTRACTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={563-568},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002383105630568},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - CONVERTING RELATIONAL DATABASE INTO OWL ONTOLOGY BY MULTI-WAY SEMANTICS EXTRACTION
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Jang S.
AU - Park I.
AU - Cho H.
AU - Joo Hyun S.
PY - 2007
SP - 563
EP - 568
DO - 10.5220/0002383105630568