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Discovering and Maintaining Semantic Mappings between XML Schemas and Ontologies

  • An, Yuan;Borgida, Alex;Mylopoulos, John
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.44-73
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    • 2008
  • There is general agreement that the problem of data semantics has to be addressed for XML data to become machine-processable. This problem can be tackled by defining a semantic mapping between an XML schema and an ontology. Unfortunately, creating such mappings is a tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone task. To alleviate this problem, we present a solution that heuristically discovers semantic mappings between XML schemas and ontologies. The solution takes as input an initial set of simple correspondences between element attributes in an XML schema and class attributes in an ontology, and then generates a set of mapping formulas. Once such a mapping is created, it is important and necessary to maintain the consistency of the mapping when the associated XML schema and ontology evolve. In this paper, we first offer a mapping formalism to represent semantic mappings. Second, we present our heuristic mapping discovery algorithm. Third, we show through an empirical study that considerable effort can be saved when discovering complex mappings by using our prototype tool. Finally, we propose a mapping maintenance plan dealing with schema evolution. Our study provides a set of effective solutions for building sustainable semantic integration systems for XML data.

A Study on Feature Analysis of Archival Metadata Standards in the Records Lifecycle

  • Baek, Jae-Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.71-111
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    • 2014
  • Metadata schemas are well recognized as one of the important technological components for archiving and preservation of digital resources. However, a single standard is not enough to cover the whole lifecycle for archiving and preserving digital resources. This means that we need to appropriately select metadata standards and combine them to develop metadata schemas to cover the whole lifecycle of resources (or records). Creating a unified framework to understand the features of metadata standards is necessary in order to improve metadata interoperability that covers the whole resource lifecycle. In this study, the author approached this issue from the task-centric view of metadata, proposing a Task model as a framework and analyzing the feature of archival metadata standards. The proposed model provides a new scheme to create metadata element mappings and to make metadata interoperable. From this study, the author found out that no single metadata standard can cover the whole lifecycle and also that an in-depth analysis of mappings between metadata standards in accordance with the lifecycle stages is required. The author also discovered that most metadata standards are primarily resource-centric and the different tasks in the resource lifecycle are not reflected in the design of metadata standard data models.

An Ontology Population Model based on ISO/IEC 11179 (ISO/IEC 11179 기반의 온톨로지 확장 모델)

  • Jeong, Hye-Jin;Baik, Doo-Kwon;Jeong, Dong-Won
    • Journal of KIISE:Databases
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.386-398
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    • 2009
  • This paper proposes an ontology population model based on ISO/IEC 11179. Much research has recently been done on harmonizing Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, and the harmonization is defined as Web 3.0. The most important issues for realizing Web 3.0 include defining ontology schemas and populating instances for ontologies. To resolve the issue, Web ontology schemas should be precisely defined, and a method for populating Web ontology from Web resources should be developed. This paper proposes a Web ontology population model based on ISO/IEC 11179 - Metadata Registry (MDR), which is the international standard, developed to manage and use common standard concepts.

Olfactory Interaction based on ISO/IEC 23005 Standard

  • Choi, Jang-Sik;Chang, Sung-June;Lee, Hae-Ryong;Byun, Hyung-Gi
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.297-300
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    • 2017
  • Realistic media comprised of metadata of the five senses to provide enhanced experiences by stimulating our memory and sensations have had an increasingly pervading effect in our daily lives. Many researchers and companies are in the process of developing their own authoring systems running on different platforms to serve realistic media, resulting in compatibility issues among the systems. To tackle these issues, the International Organization for Standardization have standardized the interface, data format, protocol, API, etc. required to provide the realistic media. In particular, the ISO/IEC 23005 standard, which is called MPEG-V in SC29/WG 11, has defined XML schemas for olfaction interaction based on electronic nose (E-Nose), and scent display. In this paper, the MPEG-V standard for olfaction interaction is reviewed, and a data flow diagram that can be used for olfactory interaction based on the MPEG-V standard was designed. In addition, the necessary schemas related to the E-Nose sensor for olfactory interaction was provided.

R2RML Based ShEx Schema

  • Choi, Ji-Woong
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 2018
  • R2RML is a W3C standard language that defines how to expose the relational data as RDF triples. The output from an R2RML mapping is only an RDF dataset. By definition, the dataset has no schema. The lack of schema makes the dataset in linked data portal impractical for integrating and analyzing data. To address this issue, we propose an approach for generating automatically schemas for RDF graphs populated by R2RML mappings. More precisely, we represent the schema using ShEx, which is a language for validating and describing RDF. Our approach allows to generate ShEx schemas as well as RDF datasets from R2RML mappings. Our ShEx schema can provide benefits for both data providers and ordinary users. Data providers can verify and guarantee the structural integrity of the dataset against the schema. Users can write SPARQL queries efficiently by referring to the schema. In this paper, we describe data structures and algorithms of the system to derive ShEx documents from R2RML documents and presents a brief demonstration regarding its proper use.

Control of metadata schema conflicts for internet datawarehouse (인터넷 데이터웨어하우스 구축을 위한 메타데이터 스키마 충돌 제어)

  • Kim, Byung-Gon
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.499-507
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    • 2007
  • With the increasing of users' request about internet web service, importance of Internet datawarehouse to support decision making of users is increasing now. Early Internet datawarehouse was studied in the form of using existent database and XML. However, because of limitation of information expression ability, it is gradually changed to system that use metadata schema like RDFS. Because of distributed environment of the Internet, integration and saving of each metadata schemas into one global schema is important. However, between each different schema, semantic and structural conflicts can be happen in such situation and they must be controlled. In this paper, we analyze occasions of conflict when integrate distributed metadata schemas and propose conflict resolution technique for efficient internet datawarehouse query processing.

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Update Semantic Preserving Object-Oriented View (갱신 의미 보존 객체-지향 뷰)

  • 나영국
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.8D no.1
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    • pp.32-43
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    • 2001
  • Due to the limitation of data modeling power and the view update ambiguity, relational view is limitedly used for engineering applications. On the contrary, object-oriented database view would playa vital role in defining custom interface for engineering applications because the above two limitations of the relational view are overcome by the object-oriented view. Above all, engineering application data interface should fully support updates. More specifically, updates against the data interface needs to be unambiguously defined and its semantic behavior should be equal to base schema updates'. For this purpose, we define the notion of update semantic preserving which means that view updates displays the same semantics as base schema. Besides, in order to show the feasibility of this characteristics, specific and concrete algorithms for update preserving updates are presented for a CAD specialized object-oriented database view - MultiView. This paper finds that in order that virtual classes coudld form a schema with 'isa' relationships rather than just a group of classes, the update semantics on the virtual classes should be defined such that the implied meaning of 'isa' relationships between classes are not to be violated. Besides, as its sufficiency conditions, we derived the update semantics and schema constituable conditions of the virtual classes that make view schemas look like base schemas. To my best knowledge, this is the first research that presents the sufficiency conditions by which we could defined object-oriented views as integrated schemas rather than as separate classes.

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Interactive Approach to Discover Complex Matchings between XML Schemas (XML 스키마간의 복합매칭 추출을 위한 대화형 기법)

  • 이준승;이경호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2004.10b
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    • pp.55-57
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    • 2004
  • 본 논문은 온톨로지를 활용한 스키마 매칭 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 대부분의 스키마 매칭 방법은 단순매칭을 대상으로 하는 반면, 제안된 방법은 계층적 구조의 온톨로지에 기반하여 복합매칭을 계산할 수 있다. 특히 제안된 온톨로지는 이전의 매칭결과에 대한 사용자의 피드백을 이용하여 자동으로 갱신됨에 따라 적절한 도메인 정보를 유지할 수 있다. 성능평가를 위한 실험결과, 온톨로지의 적용이 매칭 성능을 향상시킴을 확인할 수 있었다.

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Semantic Correspondence of Database Schema from Heterogeneous Databases using Self-Organizing Map

  • Dumlao, Menchita F.;Oh, Byung-Joo
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.217-224
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    • 2008
  • This paper provides a framework for semantic correspondence of heterogeneous databases using self- organizing map. It solves the problem of overlapping between different databases due to their different schemas. Clustering technique using self-organizing maps (SOM) is tested and evaluated to assess its performance when using different kinds of data. Preprocessing of database is performed prior to clustering using edit distance algorithm, principal component analysis (PCA), and normalization function to identify the features necessary for clustering.

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