OWL as Yet Another Data Model to be Integrated.
Leonid A. Kalinichenko, Sergey Alexandrovich Stupnikov · 2011
Abstract. The paper1 argues against cultivation in the ontological community of the opinion that ontologies are at the "semantic " level, whereas database schema are models of data at the "logical " or "physical " level. The paper claims that rather it would be right to consider OWL as yet another data model to be integrated with other heterogeneous information models. Applying the SYNTHESIS – an extensible language for heterogeneous information resource integration and mediator definition – we show how a sound mapping of a conceptual schemas expressed in OWL 2 QL into SYNTHESIS schemas can be defined. The soundness of the mapping is justified. The paper shows also how the integration of the OWL-defined databases into a SYNTHESIS-based mediator can be provided.