Artificial Intelligence
Ontologies: a silver bullet for knowledge management and electronic commerce
Ontologies: a silver bullet for knowledge management and electronic commerce
An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based Catalogs for B2B Electronic Commerce
Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Ninth Working Conference on Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in E-Commerce Systems
Integrating Vocabularies: Discovering and Representing Vocabulary Maps
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
A Data Integration Framework for e-Commerce Product Classification
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
A hybrid ontology approach for integration of obsolescence information
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Electronic B2B marketplaces bring together many online suppliers and buyers, each of which can potentially use his own format to represent the products in his product catalog. The marketplaces have to perform non-trivial mappings of these catalogs. In this paper, we analyze the problems which occur during the integration, taking several leading XML-based standards as an example. We advocate a three-layer product integration framework to resolve the difficulties in overcoming these problems with a direct one-layer integration. In this paper, we focus on the first two layers: the XML-based syntax layer and the data models layer expressed in RDF. The approach operates in three main steps. First, we create an RDF data model from the XML catalog, which eliminates all syntactical peculiarities of the catalog. Second, the catalog is translated from the source model to the RDF model of the target catalog. Finally, the transformation from RDF to XML restores all syntactical regulations required by the target catalog format. The approach is suitable for inter-operation with higher-level document and workflow ontologies.