There is a growing need to define a semantic mapping from a database schema to an ontology. Such a mapping is an integral part of the data integration systems that use an ontology...
Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...
—The vision of the Semantic Web is to lift the current Web into semantic repositories where heterogeneous data can be queried and different services can be mashed up. Ontology or...
Abstract. The central problems w.r.t. interoperability and data integration issues in the Semantic Web are schema and ontology matching approaches. Today it takes an expert to dete...
Nowadays, the increasing amount of semantic data available on the Web leads to a new stage in the potential of Semantic Web applications. However, it also introduces new issues du...