Automatic Conversion of Relational Databases into Ontologies : A Comparative Analysis of Protege Plug-Ins Performances
Kgotatso Desmond Mogotlane, Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu · International journal of Web & Semantic Technology · 2016
Constructing ontologies from relational databases is an active research topic in the Semantic Web domain.While conceptual mapping rules/principles of relational databases and ontology structures are being proposed, several software modules or plug-ins are being developed to enable the automatic conversion of relational databases into ontologies.However, the correlation between the resulting ontologies built automatically with plug-ins from relational databases and the database-toontology mapping principles has been given little attention.This study reviews and applies two Protégé plug-ins, namely, DataMaster and OntoBase to automatically construct ontologies from a relational database.The resulting ontologies are further analysed to match their structures against the database-to-ontology mapping principles.A comparative analysis of the matching results reveals that OntoBase outperforms DataMaster in applying the database-to-ontology mapping principles for automatically converting relational databases into ontologies .