Artículo
MostoDE: A tool to exchange data amongst semantic-web ontologies
Autor/es | Rivero, Carlos R.
Hernández Salmerón, Inmaculada Concepción Ruiz Cortés, David Corchuelo Gil, Rafael |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Fecha de publicación | 2013 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-11-28 |
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Resumen | A semantic-web ontology, simply known as ontology, comprises a data model and data that should comply with it. Due to their
distributed nature, there exist a large amount of heterogeneous ontologies, and a strong need for ... A semantic-web ontology, simply known as ontology, comprises a data model and data that should comply with it. Due to their distributed nature, there exist a large amount of heterogeneous ontologies, and a strong need for exchanging data amongst them, i.e., populating a target ontology using data that come from one or more source ontologies. Data exchange may be implemented using correspondences that are later transformed into executable mappings; however, exchanging data amongst ontologies is not a trivial task, so tools that help software engineers to exchange data amongst ontologies are a must. In the literature, there are a number of tools to automatically generate executable mappings; unfortunately, they have some drawbacks, namely: 1) they were designed to work with nested-relational data models, which prevents them to be applied to ontologies; 2) they require their users to handcraft and maintain their executable mappings, which is not appealing; or 3) they do not attempt to identify groups of correspondences, which may easily lead to incoherent target data. In this article, we present MostoDE, a tool that assists software engineers in generating SPARQL executable mappings and exchanging data amongst ontologies. The salient features of our tool are as follows: it allows to automate the generation of executable mappings using correspondences and constraints; it integrates several systems that implement semantic-web technologies to exchange data; and it provides visual aids for helping software engineers to exchange data amongst ontologies. |
Identificador del proyecto | TIN2007-64119
P07-TIC-2602 P08-TIC-4100 TIN2008-04718-E TIN2010-21744 TIN2010-09809-E TIN2010-10811-E TIN2010-09988-E TIN2011-15497-E |
Cita | Rivero, C.R., Hernández Salmerón, I.C., Ruiz Cortés, D. y Corchuelo Gil, R. (2013). MostoDE: A tool to exchange data amongst semantic-web ontologies. Journal of Systems and Software, 86 (6), 1517-1529. |
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