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Journal on Data Semantics VI pp 67–89Cite as

Integrating and Exchanging XML Data Using Ontologies

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While providing a uniform syntax and a semistructured data model, XML does not express semantics but only structure such as nesting information. In this paper, we consider the problem of data integration and interoperation of heterogeneous XML sources and use an ontology-based framework to address this problem at a semantic level. Ontologies are extensively used for domain knowledge representation, by virtue of their conceptualization of the domain, which carries explicit semantics. In our approach, the global ontology is expressed in RDF Schema (RDFS) and constructed using the global-as-view approach by merging individual local ontologies, which represent XML source schemas. We provide a formal model for the mappings between XML schemas and local RDFS ontologies and those between local ontologies and the global RDFS ontology. We consider two cases of query processing, specifically for data integration and for data interoperation. In the first case, the user poses an RDF query on the global ontology, which is answered using all the mapped XML sources. In the second case, a query is posed on a single source and then is mapped to the XML sources that are connected to that source. For each case, we discuss the problem of query containment and present an equivalent query rewriting algorithm for queries expressed in two languages: conjunctive RDQL and conjunctive XQuery.

A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the 8th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (Isabel F. Cruz, Huiyong Xiao, Feihong Hsu: An Ontology-Based Framework for XML Semantic Integration. IDEAS 2004: 217-226). This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Awards ITR IIS-0326284 and IIS-0513553.

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Xiao, H., Cruz, I.F. (2006). Integrating and Exchanging XML Data Using Ontologies. In: Spaccapietra, S., Aberer, K., Cudré-Mauroux, P. (eds) Journal on Data Semantics VI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4090. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11803034_4

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