2017-11-282017-11-282013Rivero, 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), 1517-1529.0164-1212http://hdl.handle.net/11441/66824A 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.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Data exchangeSemantic WebExecutable mappingsSPARQLinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2013.01.037