Integration with Ontologies

: One of today’s hottest IT topics is integration, as bringing together information from different sources and structures is not completely solved. The approach outlined here wants to illustrate how ontologies [Gr93] could help to support the integration process. The main benefits for an ontology-based approach are - the ability to picture all occurring data structures, for ontologies can be seen as nowadays most advanced knowledge representation model - the combination of deduction and relational database systems, which extends the mapping and business logic capabilities er degree of abstraction, as the model is separated from the data storage - its extendibility and reusability First we will give a motivation for our approach and build the requirement

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WM
• Authors: Andreas Maier, Jessica Aguado, Amaia Bernaras, Iñaki Laresgoiti, Cosios Pedinaci, Nieves Peña, Tim Smithers
• Keywords: Capabilities Er Degree, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Representation Model, Relational Database Systems, WM 2003