Translating SQL Applications to the Semantic Web Export

@incollection{citeulike:3168387, abstract = {The content of most Web pages is dynamically derived from an underlying relational database. Thus, the success of the Semantic Web hinges on enabling access to relational databases and their content by semantic methods. We define a system for automatic transformation of SQL DDL schemas into OWL DL ontologies. This system goes further than earlier efforts in that the entire system is expressed in first-order logic. We leverage the formal approach to show the system is complete with respect to a space of the possible relations that can be formed among relational tables as a consequence of primary and foreign key combinations. The full set of transformation rules is stratified, thus the system can be executed directly by a Datalog interpreter.}, author = {Tirmizi, Syed and Sequeda, Juan and Miranker, Daniel}, citeulike-article-id = {3168387}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85654-2_40}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/mv58805364k31734}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-85654-2_40}, journal = {Database and Expert Systems Applications}, keywords = {database, dbowl, ontology, owl, sql}, pages = {450--464}, posted-at = {2009-10-26 14:29:35}, priority = {2}, title = {Translating SQL Applications to the Semantic Web}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85654-2_40}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:3168387 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3168387 N2 - The content of most Web pages is dynamically derived from an underlying relational database. Thus, the success of the Semantic Web hinges on enabling access to relational databases and their content by semantic methods. We define a system for automatic transformation of SQL DDL schemas into OWL DL ontologies. This system goes further than earlier efforts in that the entire system is expressed in first-order logic. We leverage the formal approach to show the system is complete with respect to a space of the possible relations that can be formed among relational tables as a consequence of primary and foreign key combinations. The full set of transformation rules is stratified, thus the system can be executed directly by a Datalog interpreter. JF - Database and Expert Systems Applications EP - 464 TI - Translating SQL Applications to the Semantic Web SP - 450 KW - database KW - dbowl KW - ontology KW - owl KW - sql AU - Tirmizi, Syed AU - Sequeda, Juan AU - Miranker, Daniel PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85654-2_40 ER -