Extending Semantic RML Mappings with Additional Source Formats

Johannes Theissen-Lipp, Johannes Theissen-Lipp, Niklas Schäfer, Max Kocher, Philipp Hochmann, Michael Riesener, Stefan Decker, Stefan Decker

2024

Abstract

Across many domains, the growing amount of data presents a challenge in extracting meaningful insights. A significant hurdle is the accurate interpretation and integration of data from diverse sources, often dictated by their specific applications. The RDF Mapping Language (RML), based on the W3C recommendation R2RML, can be used to transform heterogeneous data formats to RDF using defined mappings. However, existing RML implementations only support a limited set of (semi-)structured data sources such as CSV, SQL, XML, and JSON, neglecting numerous use-cases relying on other formats. This work overcomes this limitation by proposing a methodology to flexibly extend RML to support additional source formats. We systematically analyze RML and its implementations to derive a generic concept for the extension of RML. Our contributions include a general workflow for extending RML with new formats and demonstrative implementations of the RML Mapper for two examples from Building Information Modeling (BIM) and UML class diagrams. Leveraging open-source code forks and a demonstrative domain-specific language ensures easy portability to any other source format. The evaluation covers authoring of mappings, runtime performance, and practical applicability. The results affirm the effectiveness of our generic methodology for extending RML mappings to include additional source formats.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Theissen-Lipp J., Schäfer N., Kocher M., Hochmann P., Riesener M. and Decker S. (2024). Extending Semantic RML Mappings with Additional Source Formats. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 201-208. DOI: 10.5220/0012551300003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Johannes Theissen-Lipp and Niklas Schäfer and Max Kocher and Philipp Hochmann and Michael Riesener and Stefan Decker},
title={Extending Semantic RML Mappings with Additional Source Formats},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={201-208},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012551300003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS
TI - Extending Semantic RML Mappings with Additional Source Formats
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Theissen-Lipp J.
AU - Schäfer N.
AU - Kocher M.
AU - Hochmann P.
AU - Riesener M.
AU - Decker S.
PY - 2024
SP - 201
EP - 208
DO - 10.5220/0012551300003690
PB - SciTePress