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 Volume 5, Issue 4 (April 2018), Pages: 79-86

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Fully automatic OWL generator from RDB schema

 Author(s): Tabbasum Naz 1, *, Maham Shuja 2, Syed Khuram Shahzad 3, Muhammad Atif 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
 2Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
 3Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, The Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.04.010

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 Abstract:

Use of ontologies in information systems and artificial intelligence has been emphasized in the recent years. Other than standardizing the vocabulary across a domain, ontologies enable the sharing of information between disparate systems within the same domain. Ontology engineers spend a lot of efforts in developing ontologies. A large amount of data on the Web is stored in the relational databases. In this paper, we have proposed and developed a tool that can fully automatically develop OWL ontology from a relational database. The main focus of our research is to develop a transformation process and to create rules for mappings between RDB and OWL constructs. Existing approaches have drawbacks that they are not fully automatic, performed mapping at a very basic level, outdated and are not easily accessible. In case of a large database, the existing tools fail to perform conversions efficiently. Our proposed tool is evaluated on different relational databases and can successfully perform the transformation with new mapping rules. Our tool is able to develop sub-data-properties and sub-classes which was never available before. 

 © 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: OWL generator, Semantic web, Schema mapping, DB to OWL

 Article History: Received 14 November 2017, Received in revised form 29 January 2018, Accepted 10 February 2018

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.04.010

 Citation:

 Naz T, Shuja M, Shahzad SK, and Atif M (2018). Fully automatic OWL generator from RDB schema. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 5(4): 79-86

 Permanent Link:

 http://www.science-gate.com/IJAAS/2018/V5I4/Naz.html

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