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JOPA: Stay Object-Oriented When Persisting Ontologies

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Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2015)

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Accessing OWL ontologies from IT systems can bring many problems unfamiliar to developers used to the more common relational storage approach. These problems stem from the dynamic nature of ontologies, their open-world character and expressiveness. In this paper, we present the Java OWL Persistence API (JOPA), a persistence layer allowing object-oriented access to semantic web ontologies. It supports features like caching, transactional processing and a semantically clear contract between the ontology and the object model. In addition, we present the OntoDriver, a software layer decoupling storage access from the object-ontological mapping. We provide an in-depth theoretical complexity analysis of our approach in connection with an analysis and practical evaluation of the performance of ontological storage with regards to application access scenario.

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Notes

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    https://bitbucket.org/openrdf/alibaba, Accessed 04-08-2015.

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    Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete.

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    Internationalized Resource Identifier.

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    Lazily loaded attribute values are retrieved from the data source only upon application request.

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    Java Database Connectivity.

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    Standard Query Language.

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    For the sake of compactness, we neglect datatypes and literals \((\mathcal {D})\) and use description logic notation.

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    Storage And Inference Layer.

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    http://www.stardog.com, Accessed 02-12-2014.

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    The post is available at http://tinyurl.com/ke4ozf7, accessed 25-01-2015.

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    http://www.inbas.cz, Accessed on 07-08-2015.

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    Class is a term used in the OWL 2 language specification [4] and it corresponds to the term concept, used in description logics underlying the OWL language. We will use the terms interchangeably, unless a disambiguation between ontological classes and object-oriented paradigm classes is necessary.

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This work was supported by the grant No. SGS13/204/OHK3/3T/13 Effective solving of engineering problems using semantic technologies of the Czech Technical University in Prague and No. TA04030465 Research and development of progressive methods for measuring aviation organizations safety performance of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.

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    Leszek Maciaszek

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Ledvinka, M., Křemen, P. (2015). JOPA: Stay Object-Oriented When Persisting Ontologies. In: Hammoudi, S., Maciaszek, L., Teniente, E., Camp, O., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_20

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