REVERSIBLE LOSSLESS TRANSFORMATION FROM OWL 2 ONTOLOGIES INTO RELATIONAL DATABASES

Authors

  • Ernestas Vyšniauskas Kaunas University of Technology
  • Lina Nemuraitė Kaunas University of Technology
  • Rimantas Butleris Kaunas University of Technology
  • Bronius Paradauskas Kaunas University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.40.4.979

Keywords:

Ontology, relational database, OWL 2, RDB, reversible lossless transformation, QVT Relations language

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to define reversible, information preserving transformation from OWL 2ontologies into relational databases using our proposed hybrid approach, when a part of ontology constructs is directlyrepresented by relational database structures and another part having no direct correspondences in a relational databaseis stored in metadata tables. The desirable transformation is defined in QVT Relations language following additionalrequirements under which such transformation is reversible and does not lose semantic information when performingfrom ontology to database and backward.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.40.4.979

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Published

2011-12-15

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 4 (2011)

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