OntoDB2: support of multiple ontology models within ontology based database

  • Authors:
  • Chimene Fankam

  • Affiliations:
  • Poitiers University, Futuroscope Chasseneuil Cedex France

  • Venue:
  • Ph.D. '08 Proceedings of the 2008 EDBT Ph.D. workshop
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The notion of ontology has became more widespread, its usage in different domains has first led to proposition of different ontology models, and secondly, to implementations of different architectures able to manage both ontologies and associated data. We called such database architectures Ontology-Based DataBases (OBDBs). It appears that each OBDB is mainly based on a single ontology-model. During our investigation of the most existing architectures and ontology models, we figure out that most of these models share a common kernel and each one has additional constructs which are orthogonal. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to design an OBDB supporting different ontology-models. This architecture offers specific constructs of existing ontology models.