DTD2OWL: automatic transforming XML documents into OWL ontology

  • Authors:
  • Pham Thi Thu Thuy;Young-Koo Lee;SungYoung Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • KyungHee University Yongin, Korea;KyungHee University Yongin, Korea;KyungHee University Yongin, Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

DTD and its instance have been considered the standard for data representation and information exchange format on the current web. However, when coming to the next generation of web, the Semantic Web, the drawbacks of XML and its schema are appeared. They mainly focus on the structure level and lack support for data representation. Meanwhile, some Semantic Web applications such as intelligent information services and semantic search engines require not only the syntactic format of the data, but also the semantic content. These requirements are supported by the Web Ontology Language (OWL), which is one of the recent W3C recommendation. But nowadays the amount of data presented in OWL is small in compare with XML data. Therefore, finding a way to utilize the available XML documents for the Semantic Web is a current challenge research. In this work we present an effective solution for transforming XML document into OWL domain knowledge. While keeping the original structure, our work also adds more semantics for the XML document. Moreover, whole of the transformation processes are done automatically without any outside intervention. Further, unlike previous approaches which focus on the schema level, we also extend our methodology for the data level by transforming specific XML instances into OWL individuals. The results in existing OWL syntaxes help them to be loaded immediately by the Semantic Web applications.