Building data warehouses with semantic data

  • Authors:
  • Victoria Nebot;Rafael Berlanga

  • Affiliations:
  • Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Castellón, Spain;Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Castellón, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 EDBT/ICDT Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The Semantic Web has become a new environment that enables organizations to attach semantic annotations taken from ontologies to the information they generate. As a result, large amounts of complex, semi-structured and heterogeneous semantic data repositories are being made available, making necessary new data warehouse tools for analyzing the Semantic Web. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic method for the identification and extraction of valid facts aimed at analyzing semantic data expressed as instance stores in RDF/OWL. The starting point of the method is a multidimensional (MD) star schema (i.e., subject of analysis, dimensions and measures) designed by the analyst by picking up concepts and properties from the ontology. The method exploits the semantics and theoretical foundations of Description Logics to derive valid combinations of instances into fact tuples. Moreover, some specific index structures are applied to the ontology in order to reach scalability and effectiveness.