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A Framework for Temporal Ontology-Based Data Access: A Proposal

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Predictive analysis gradually gains importance in industry. For instance, service engineers at Siemens diagnostic centres unveil hidden knowledge in huge amounts of historical sensor data and use this knowledge to improve the predictive systems analysing live data. Currently, the analysis is usually done using data-dependent rules that are specific to individual sensors and equipment. This dependence poses significant challenges in rule authoring, reuse, and maintenance by engineers. One solution to this problem is to employ ontology-based data access (OBDA) that provides a conceptual view of data via an ontology. However, classical OBDA systems do not support access to temporal data and reasoning over it. To address this issue, we propose a framework of temporal OBDA. In this framework, we use extended mapping languages to extract information about temporal events in RDF format, classical ontology and rule languages to reflect static information, as well as a temporal rule language to describe events. We also propose a SPARQL-based query language for retrieving temporal information and, finally, an architecture of system implementation extending the state-of-the-art OBDA platform Ontop.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://ontop.inf.unibz.it/.

  2. 2.

    https://github.com/oeg-upm/morph-rdb.

  3. 3.

    http://stardog.com/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.obdasystems.com/mastro.

  5. 5.

    https://capsenta.com/.

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This research has been partially supported by the project “Ontology-based analysis of temporal and streaming data” (OBATS), funded through the 2017 call issued by the Research Committee of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

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Brandt, S., Kalaycı, E.G., Ryzhikov, V., Xiao, G., Zakharyaschev, M. (2017). A Framework for Temporal Ontology-Based Data Access: A Proposal. In: Kirikova, M., et al. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 767. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67162-8_17

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