Relational Databases as Semantic Web Endpoints

Authors:
Matthias Hert
Affiliations:
Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland CH-8050
Venue:
ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This proposal explores the promotion of existing relational databases to Semantic Web Endpoints. It presents the benefits of ontology-based read and write access to existing relational data as well as the need for specialized, scalable reasoning over that data. We introduce our approach for translating SPARQL/Update operations to SQL, describe how scalable reasoning can be realized by using the power of the database system, and outline two case studies for evaluating our approach.