%0 Conference Paper %1 Hu/2007/Discovering %A Hu, Wei %A Qu, Yuzhong %B Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea %C Berlin, Heidelberg %D 2007 %E Aberer, Karl %E Choi, Key-Sun %E Noy, Natasha %E Allemang, Dean %E Lee, Kyung-Il %E Nixon, Lyndon J B %E Golbeck, Jennifer %E Mika, Peter %E Maynard, Diana %E Schreiber, Guus %E Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe %I Springer Verlag %K 2007 database information_integration iswc mapping ontology ontology_(computer_science) ontology_alignment research_12 schema semantic_web simple %P 225--238 %T Discovering Simple Mappings Between Relational Database Schemas and Ontologies %U http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/papers/225.pdf %V 4825 %X Ontologies proliferate with the growth of the Semantic Web. However, most of data on the Web are still stored in relational databases. Therefore, it is important to establish interoperability between relational databases and ontologies for creating a Web of data. An effective way to achieve interoperability is finding mappings between relational database schemas and ontologies. In this paper, we propose a new approach to discovering simple mappings between a relational database schema and an ontology. It exploits simple mappings based on virtual documents, and eliminates incorrect mappings via validating mapping consistency. Additionally, it also constructs a special type of semantic mappings, called contextual mappings, which is useful for practical applications. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach performs well on several data sets from real world domains.

@inproceedings{Hu/2007/Discovering, abstract = {Ontologies proliferate with the growth of the Semantic Web. However, most of data on the Web are still stored in relational databases. Therefore, it is important to establish interoperability between relational databases and ontologies for creating a Web of data. An effective way to achieve interoperability is finding mappings between relational database schemas and ontologies. In this paper, we propose a new approach to discovering simple mappings between a relational database schema and an ontology. It exploits simple mappings based on virtual documents, and eliminates incorrect mappings via validating mapping consistency. Additionally, it also constructs a special type of semantic mappings, called contextual mappings, which is useful for practical applications. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach performs well on several data sets from real world domains.}, added-at = {2007-11-07T19:13:58.000+0100}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, author = {Hu, Wei and Qu, Yuzhong}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e403fb006c4d527aac4975c6c57f0756/iswc2007}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea}, crossref = {http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc-aswc/2007/proceedings}, editor = {Aberer, Karl and Choi, Key-Sun and Noy, Natasha and Allemang, Dean and Lee, Kyung-Il and Nixon, Lyndon J B and Golbeck, Jennifer and Mika, Peter and Maynard, Diana and Schreiber, Guus and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe}, interhash = {f17209ae1f2b8b36f25557fbbfed84b4}, intrahash = {e403fb006c4d527aac4975c6c57f0756}, keywords = {2007 database information_integration iswc mapping ontology ontology_(computer_science) ontology_alignment research_12 schema semantic_web simple}, month = {November}, pages = {225--238}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, series = {LNCS}, timestamp = {2007-11-07T19:20:52.000+0100}, title = {Discovering Simple Mappings Between Relational Database Schemas and Ontologies}, url = {http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/papers/225.pdf}, volume = 4825, year = 2007 }