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Mapping Relational Databases to the Semantic Web with Original Meaning

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 5914))

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Most of nowadays Web content is stored in relational data-bases. It is important to develop ways for representation of this information in the Semantic Web to allow software agents to process it intelligently. The paper presents an approach to translation of data, schema and the most important constraints from relational databases into the Semantic Web without any extensions to the Semantic Web languages.

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    Dmitry V. Levshin

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Institute for Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna, Brünner Straße 72, 1210, Vienna, Austria

    Dimitris Karagiannis

  2. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, 100871, Beijing, China

    Zhi Jin

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Levshin, D.V. (2009). Mapping Relational Databases to the Semantic Web with Original Meaning. In: Karagiannis, D., Jin, Z. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10488-6_5

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