Automatic Constructing OWL Ontology from Relational Database Schema

Ines Fayech, Habib Ounalli

2013

Abstract

In this paper we present a new tool, called DB_DOOWL, for creating domain ontology from relational database schema (RDBS). In contrast with existing transformation approaches, we propose a generic solution based on automatic instantiation of a specified meta-ontology. This later is an owl ontology which describes any database structure. A prototype of our proposed tool is im-plemented based on Jena in Java in order to demonstrate its feasibility.

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Fayech I. and Ounalli H. (2013). Automatic Constructing OWL Ontology from Relational Database Schema . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web Intelligence - Volume 1: WEBI, (ICEIS 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-63-1, pages 74-81. DOI: 10.5220/0004603100740081


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@conference{webi13,
author={Ines Fayech and Habib Ounalli},
title={Automatic Constructing OWL Ontology from Relational Database Schema},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web Intelligence - Volume 1: WEBI, (ICEIS 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={74-81},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004603100740081},
isbn={978-989-8565-63-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web Intelligence - Volume 1: WEBI, (ICEIS 2013)
TI - Automatic Constructing OWL Ontology from Relational Database Schema
SN - 978-989-8565-63-1
AU - Fayech I.
AU - Ounalli H.
PY - 2013
SP - 74
EP - 81
DO - 10.5220/0004603100740081