Ontology development for the semantic web: an html form-based reverse engineering approach

  • Authors:
  • Sidi Mohamed Benslimane;Djamal Benslimane;Mimoun Malki;Zakaria Maamar;Philippe Thiran;Youssef Amghar;Mohand-Said Hacid

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Claude Bernard, Lyon, France;University of Claude Bernard, Lyon, France;University of Sidi Bel-Abbes, Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria;Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E;University of Namur, Namur, Belgium;INSA, Lyon, France;University of Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The rapid growth of the Internet makes information available anywhere and anytime. Most businesses run Web-based front-end databases upon which online services are offered to end-users. The next generation of the Web, the semantic Web, seeks to offer data in a usable form for automatic reasoning. To this purpose, it is necessary to make existing database content ready-to-use for semantic Web applications, which use ontologies to formally define the semantics of their data. As a result, a large number of initiatives focus on building ontologies through automatic or semi-automatic processes. In this paper we present a semi-automatic reverse engineering approach that uses a relational database's HTML forms and a set of transformation rules to produce to an OWL ontology.