AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF SQL RELATIONAL DATABASES TO OWL ONTOLOGIES

Irina Astrova, Ahto Kalja

2008

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel approach to automatic transformation of relational databases (written in SQL) to ontologies (written in OWL), where domains and constraints CHECK are also considered. The proposed approach can identify (inverse) functional, symmetric and transitive properties, cardinality and value restrictions, and enumerated classes and data types.

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in Harvard Style

Astrova I. and Kalja A. (2008). AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF SQL RELATIONAL DATABASES TO OWL ONTOLOGIES . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 131-136. DOI: 10.5220/0001515101310136


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist08,
author={Irina Astrova and Ahto Kalja},
title={AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF SQL RELATIONAL DATABASES TO OWL ONTOLOGIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={131-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001515101310136},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF SQL RELATIONAL DATABASES TO OWL ONTOLOGIES
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Astrova I.
AU - Kalja A.
PY - 2008
SP - 131
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0001515101310136