Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Using semantic values to facilitate interoperability among heterogeneous information systems
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Reverse engineering of relational databases: extraction of an EER model from a relational database
Data & Knowledge Engineering
MAFRA - A MApping FRAmework for Distributed Ontologies
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Answering XML Queries on Heterogeneous Data Sources
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Object-Oriented Views of Relational Databases Incorporating Behaviour
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)
Meditation to Deal with Heterogeneous Data Sources
INTEROP '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems
Queue - Databases
Relational.OWL: a data and schema representation format based on OWL
APCCM '05 Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific conference on Conceptual modelling - Volume 43
Integrating Databases into the Semantic Web through an Ontology-Based Framework
ICDEW '06 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops
Integration Of Structured And Unstructured Text Data In A Clinical Information System
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Artemis: Deploying semantically enriched Web services in the healthcare domain
Information Systems
Ontology for interoperability and data sharing in healthcare
ACST '08 Proceedings of the Fourth IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology
Supporting interoperability of autonomous hospital databases: a case study
ADBIS'97 Proceedings of the First East-European conference on Advances in Databases and Information systems
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Knowledge representation using ontology has been proposed to resolve the issues of semantic heterogeneity in data interoperability and data sharing among heterogeneous systems because ontology is a powerful expressive language to represent the required knowledge about data of a specific domain and has been applied in many fields, such as Semantic Web, e-commerce and information interoperability, etc. However, building ontology for information source manually is not only hard and error-prone, but also very personal if there is no common guideline. We had proposed a framework for data interoperability using semantic Web service to resolve the semantic heterogeneity in healthcare environment. We found that learning ontology from existing information resources is a good solution to explicitly express the semantics of an information source, but some semantics may be missing during the ontology learning process. Since relational database is widely used for storing source data, in this paper a new approach of learning OWL ontology from a relational database and information embedded in an application is proposed. In order to acquire the complete conceptual information, a group of learning rules are used to obtain OWL ontology, including classes, properties, property characteristics, cardinalities and instances. A semi-automatic application called OntoApp that implemented all proposed learning rules has been developed and tested; the results show promising in knowledge learning from information source.