Ontology-based data access with databases: a short course

  • Authors:

  • Roman Kontchakov;Mariano Rodríguez-Muro;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London, U.K.;Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy;Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • RW'13 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Reasoning Web: semantic technologies for intelligent data access
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Ontology-based data access (OBDA) is regarded as a key ingredient of the new generation of information systems. In the OBDA paradigm, an ontology defines a high-level global schema of (already existing) data sources and provides a vocabulary for user queries. An OBDA system rewrites such queries and ontologies into the vocabulary of the data sources and then delegates the actual query evaluation to a suitable query answering system such as a relational database management system or a datalog engine. In this chapter, we mainly focus on OBDA with the ontology language OWL 2QL, one of the three profiles of the W3C standard Web Ontology Language OWL 2, and relational databases, although other possible languages will also be discussed. We consider different types of conjunctive query rewriting and their succinctness, different architectures of OBDA systems, and give an overview of the OBDA system Ontop.